Electricity bills: Traders shutter down strike on Sept 2. According to News, the Lahore business community announced on Thursday.
That they would observe a shut-down strike on September 2 (Saturday) in protest of the exorbitant electricity prices and rising inflation.
Markets all over Lahore closed on Saturday, September 2, according to a statement from Mujahid Maqsood Butt, president of the Traders Association, in protest against exorbitant electricity prices and the nation’s rising inflation.
Butt argued that because the recent increase in electricity prices is harming our businesses, traders cannot afford such high bills. He urged Caretaker PM Anwaarul Haq Kakar to reverse this decision.
Traders in Karachi have also declared a strike on September 1 to protest rising electricity costs.