Shops in Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Rawalakot, Kotli and other major cities remained shut and trades and locals carried out protest marches with slogans against the Pakistan government.
Transporters have expressed their readiness to unilaterally raise fares or initiate a wheel-jam strike if the government does not backtrack on the oil price increase.
Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) held a wheel-jam strike across the province on Monday to protest against the worsening law and order situation in the Wadh area of the Khuzdar district of Balochistan.
The BNP-Mengal secretary general Waja Jahanzeb Baloch said all national highways connecting Balochistan with other provinces will be blocked during the strike.
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 16 (ANI): Petroleum transporters have announced that they will hold an indefinite protest from Wednesday onwards if the government does not increase fares of fuel transportation that have remained unchanged since 2011 and warned to cut fuel supplies across the
Shangla [Pakistan], December 31(ANI): Transporters in Puran and Makhozi tehsils in Pakistan's Shangla District went on a wheel jam strike to protest the toll tax collection started by Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA). Pakistan's inflation rates are soaring and amid this transporters are