Strike ends: Dumpers are back on the roads
Association's vice-president, Maqsood Khan, said the issue of overloading has been resolved
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KARACHI:
The week-long strike of the All Pakistan Truck and Dumper Association finally came to an end after the intervention of commissioner Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui on Wednesday.
The association's president Haji Yousuf Khan had complained that motorway police on the Super Highway kept charging them for overloading their vehicles and that they have been barred from entering the city before 11pm and in Defence Housing Authority between 6am and 7:30pm. He also complained that they have to give Rs850 per vehicle in extortion money at the Toll Plaza. After the announcement, the association's vice-president, Maqsood Khan, said the issue of overloading has been resolved and now they are allowed to carry 4.5 to five tons of gravel per tyre of their vehicle. He said that the issue of extortion has also been taken up. He added that they are now allowed to ply their vehicles before 11pm on main thoroughfares.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 12th, 2015.
The week-long strike of the All Pakistan Truck and Dumper Association finally came to an end after the intervention of commissioner Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui on Wednesday.
Construction work on all construction sites in the city had come to a standstill, including the projects of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, due to the strike.
The association's president Haji Yousuf Khan had complained that motorway police on the Super Highway kept charging them for overloading their vehicles and that they have been barred from entering the city before 11pm and in Defence Housing Authority between 6am and 7:30pm. He also complained that they have to give Rs850 per vehicle in extortion money at the Toll Plaza. After the announcement, the association's vice-president, Maqsood Khan, said the issue of overloading has been resolved and now they are allowed to carry 4.5 to five tons of gravel per tyre of their vehicle. He said that the issue of extortion has also been taken up. He added that they are now allowed to ply their vehicles before 11pm on main thoroughfares.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 12th, 2015.