District Magistrate Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) on Wednesday assured trade associations of the capital that the city administration would address their concerns regarding the forthcoming protest rally of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on November 30.
Representatives of traders associations of federal capital held a meeting with the magistrate in the light of directions issued by a single-member bench of the Islamabad High Court and conveyed their security concerns to the magistrate in this connection. Earlier, Justice Athar Minallah the IHC directed district magistrate of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) to address grievances of Trader Associations of Federal Capital. The court ordered that the petitioner could come to the IHC, if the district magistrate fails to resolve their problems.
Eight trader associations of Islamabad from G-6, G-9, G-10 contended before the IHC that the business community felt threatened and endangered due to the furious rhetoric and designs of the PTI chairman Imran Khan for reactivating his Dharna (sit-in) and Azadi-March on November 30, 2014, at D-Chowk near Constitution Avenue, Islamabad.
The traders maintained that it would bring to halt the routine life of Islamabad city and in case the city administration allowed the protesters to protest, hence they may be allocated a separate place like industrial exhibition ground near Faizabad or F-9 Park to hold public gathering.
They Prayed to the court to declare that Imran Khan and his party leaders, workers and allies be refrained and restrained from holding any sit-in, Jalsa or dharna on November 30 that would cause a loss to the residents in the forms of business, employees of private and public sectors would suffer and school-going children would also bear the loss. And in case they are allowed, they may be allocated with a separate place.
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