Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) President Yassar Sakhi Butt on Saturday condemned damaging of private properties by the rioting mobs during protests against the sacrilegious film properties across the country on Friday.
Presiding over a meeting of businessmen at Chamber House here, Yassar Sakhi Butt said the protesters should have expressed their anger in a peaceful and disciplined manner. "By ransacking the businesses and properties, they have sent a very negative message to the international community that their (protesters') approach is totally against the principles of Islam," he added.
The private sector was the backbone of economy, but the frenzy mob ransacked various buildings in the country, causing loss of millions of rupees to the owners and rendering the business almost non-functional, which was very unfortunate, he added. He stressed that measures must be taken on war-footing to provide a sense of security to the businessmen.
The businessmen demanded that the government should take measures to restrict the movement of residents of Kachi Abadies from entering the industrial areas, especially during any law-and-order situation. They also called for relocating residents of such localities to other places so that industrial and commercial areas might not face any threat from miscreants.