RAWALPINDI: All Rawalpindi Restaurants Association and hotel owners of Northern Areas and Murree have staged a protest in Islamabad on the completion of 100 days of a business closure.
According to details, a large number of representatives, including owners, employees and suppliers staged a protest in front of the National Press Club in Islamabad.
They were holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the government and prolonged lockdown. They also chanted slogans against the government and demanded permission to open their businesses.
Addressing the participants, All Rawalpindi Restaurant Association President Ijaz Malik said that businesses were closed for now almost 100 days, and development has been made in this regard.
He said that the government should look into the problems of the poor workers. “If the government deprives them of constitutional permission to work, they will stage protests outside parliament,” he warned.
The restaurant owners said that despite providing facilities to the poor people the government was increasing the sufferings. General Secretary of Rawalpindi Restaurant Association said that after allowing all industries to work, the discrimination against hotels, restaurants, and wedding halls should be stopped.
Hundreds of hotels in different parts of Rawalpindi and Islamabad had been closed, which cost jobs of thousands of daily-wage earners and laborers.
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