Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), has backed traders, businessmen and transporters’ demands of reopening of markets and resumption of business, trade and public transport in the metropolitan city.
A traders’ delegation under Atiq Mir, the head of the All Karachi Tajir Ittehad met with the senior leadership of MQM-P at their Bahadurabad head office. The traders urged Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui for his party’s support in pressurizing the PPP government to allow the resumption of business and trade activities in the city.
Atiq Mir highlighted the grim economic repercussions of the coronavirus lockdown faced by low level traders and businessmen in the city.
“Ramadan has already started and this is the biggest sale season for business community and closure in these days means a loss for the whole year,” he noted.
The meeting was attended by various MQM-P members which included the likes of party’s Senior Deputy Convener Amir Khan, Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar, Kunwar Navid Jamil and Faisal Subzwari.
Responding to trader’s demands, MQM-P leadership assured them of their support and that they will raise the issue with Prime Minister Imran Khan as Sindh government has always been and still is indifferent towards Karachi and its issues.
“The people who are dealing with the city’s affairs do not belong to the city. We demand that the government allow them to reopen their businesses gradually and after evolving consensus on some SOPs. Small-scale traders are the worst affected in the prevailing circumstances as they are struggling to manage things with limited income and are unable to afford further lockdown,” said the MQM-P head Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui.
