A wheel jam strike is being observed here today on the call of the Transporters Alliance, as all the public transport including the buses, coaches and mini-buses etc. stayed away from the roads and streets, while the people this morning waited for hours in vain to get a transport to reach their place of work and those impelled by the emergency going somewhere had to cough up the demand fares of the taxi drivers.
The hikes in petrol prices though affected the transporters all across the country, yet the so-called transporters alliance, which leaves no opportunity of punishing the Karachiites, preferred giving a call for the observance of strike in Karachi alone, as if the people of this city had any hand in the petrol prices hikes.

Meanwhile, the women and children, old and young all alike much to their disgust were forced in confinement, as no transport was available, while the whimsical demand of the taxi fares was forbidding.

Transporters Alliance warned that they would go an indefinite strike, if the government doesn’t take back the decision of the petrol prices hikes.

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