ISLAMABAD: Traders have rejected the decision to close the markets at 8 pm under the energy saving announcement announced by the government and said that they will not close the business to save electricity.
All Pakistan Anjuman Tajran and Traders Action Committee Islamabad President Ajmal Baloch, Secretary and Convenor Traders Committee ICCI Khalid Chaudhry,
Bihara Kahu Central Traders Union Central President Raja Zahid Dhaniyal, JET Center President Raja Khurram Niaz IET Center Raja Fayaz Gul, president of Steel Market,
and Irfan Chaudhry, president of Steel Market, have said in their joint statement that the government has tried to close the shops at eight o’clock in the night at different times,
but it has always failed. In the electricity supply companies, there will be a loss of about six hundred billion rupees.
Decision to close markets and shops at 8 pm from July 1
He said that the trader is the most expensive buyer of electricity in peak hours, closing the shops will cause eight billion annual loss to the electricity companies, supply of free electricity and theft should be controlled.
