Shortage, skyrocketing yarn prices: over 200,000 daily wage workers lose jobs

All Pakistan Power Loom Association (APPLA) Secretary General, Khaliq Qandeel Ansari has said that it was our unanimous decision not to purchase the cotton yarn on the higher price, not to accept the increase in power tariff and discriminatory gas load shedding because our two lakh workers rendered jobless in Multan and Faisalabad due to closure of power looms.
Their families are forced to starve and not to send their children to schools. Khaliq Qandeel told newsmen here on Tuesday that Power looms owners have closed the factories over the shortage and skyrocketing prices of yarn, as a result more than 2,00,000 daily wagers have lost their jobs. He said that the owners are ready to open the power looms factories but it is not possible for them to do so in present situation, as there is shortage of yarn besides its high prices. He demanded of the government to halt artificially created high prices and shortage of yarn.