Tandoor owners in Lahore have stopped implementing the new prices of bread and bread, the Muttahida Nanbai Association has announced a shutter-down strike from May 8.
Lahore: Lahore tandoor owners to strike on May 8 over new price of roti. Punjab government in a campaign to implement new prices of Roti fined hundreds of tandoors across the province and also sealed dozens of tandoors for not selling Roti at Rs16 and Naan at Rs20.
A meeting was held under the chairmanship of Aftab Gul, president of the Muttahida Nanbai Association, in which a large number of tandoor owners participated and decided that selling nan at Rs20 and roti at Rs16 was equal to ‘economic murder’ of the tandoor owners.
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The tandoor owners announced they would not accept under any circumstances for an indefinite period from May 8.
Aftab Gul said it was not possible to implement the fixed new prices of roti and nan by the Punjab government.
Punjab is a province of Pakistan. Located in central-eastern region of the country, Punjab is the second-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the largest by population. Lahore is the capital and the largest city of the province. Other major cities include Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala and Multan.
It is bordered by the Pakistani provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the north-west, Balochistan to the south-west and Sindh to the south, as well as Islamabad Capital Territory to the north-west and Azad Kashmir to the north. It shares an international border with the Indian states of Rajasthan and Punjab to the east and Indian-administered Kashmir to the north-east. Punjab is the most fertile province of the country as River Indus and its four major tributaries Ravi, Jhelum, Chenab and Sutlej flow through it.
