Pakistan: Lakki Marwat traders threaten to start demonstration against police
Lakki Marwat, Pakistan: Traders in Pakistan's Lakki Marwat city on Sunday threatened to launch agitation against the police’s failure to trace and arrest the robbers involved in looting cash from a businessman, media reports said.
Former district councillor Amir Nawaz, advocate Nasir Kamal, Maulana Ahmad Shah of JUI-F, traders’ leaders, including Fazal Rahim, Munir Khan and Fareed Khan, and local shopkeepers attended the meeting, reports Dawn News.
Three armed motorcyclists had looted cash from a trader, Mir Ghulam, in Mela Mandi Bazaar of Lakki city on Saturday evening, the Pakistani newspaper reported.
The business community of the region met on an emergency basis that day.
During the meeting, elders and traders’ representatives condemned the incident and said that robbery incidents had become common in Lakki city for the last several months.