The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) shutdown call has been rejected by the people which shows that people trust the government, said National Assembly Member (MNA) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Lahore President Pervaiz Malik on Tuesday while addressing a press conference at 90 Shahra-e-Quaid-e-Azam.
Malik claimed that 90 per cent markets in the city remained opened during the protest.
He said that Lahore Stock Exchange, Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry, APTMA, Sundar Industrial Estate, Kot Lakhpat Industrial Estate also continued their activities.
Malik said that keeping in view the protection of people and their property, the government had adopted a restraint policy which remained successful.
He thanked the traders and all business organisations for rejecting the PTI shutdown call by opening their businesses.
He condemned the PTI for blocking roads and ambulances resulting in death of four people. He held PTI chief responsible for these deaths.
He said the PTI’s activists involved in hooliganism would be identified through footage and would be punished according to the law.
To a question, he said the PML-N government wanted to expand the business and industry and make the country’s economy strong.
Speaking on the occasion, traders’ leaders said that they did not support such shutdown calls, adding that the PTI tried to use shoulders of traders who would not let them to do it.
Parliamentary Secretary on Information and Culture Rana Arshad, Punjab Assembly Member (MPA) Chaudhry Shahbaz Ahmad, Gulberg board chairman Sohail Sarfraz, PML-N Traders Wing patron Anjum Butt, Misri Shah Market president Amir Siddique, Shahdra board chairman Mian Khalil, Hall Road president Sahabbir Labha and others were present on the occasion.
