File photo of a man on a donkey cart in Pakistan. PHOTO: ONLINE
Scores of donkey cart owners on Sunday staged a demonstration to protest the ban on their entering a grain market in Faisalabad.
The protesters, led by Peoples’ Labour Bureau divisional general secretary Lal Hussain Rashid, gathered at Muhaddis-i-Azam Chowk near Jhang Bazaar and blocked the intersection for traffic.
They parked their donkey carts around the intersection. Traffic going towards Jhang, Gojra, Toba Tek Singh, Shorkot, Pir Mehal and Multan was blocked as a result.
Talking to newsmen, Rashid said those making a living by transporting goods to the grain market on their donkey carts were the poorest of the poor.
“The ban on their entry to the grain market has affected livelihood of hundreds,” he said. He said the district administration should lift the ban and allow donkey cart owners to continue their work.
He said if the ban was not lifted immediately, donkey cart owners would go on a hunger strike.
The protesters also chanted slogans against the district administration.
On being informed, a team from Jhang Bazaar police station reached the spot and assured the protesters that their issue would be taken up by higher authorities and resolved amicably. The protesters dispersed peacefully on this assurance.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2015.
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