Armed men robbed several cargo trucks at Quetta-Chaman highway near Maizai Ada area of district Killa Abdullah on the night between Monday and Tuesday.

Drivers of the truck blocked highway by staging a protest demonstration outside levies station Maizai Ada, causing long queues of vehicles.

Talking to media, truck drivers said that armed men, operating just a few furlongs away from the levies check post, had forcibly seized their mobile phones and cash besides physically assaulting them.

Following negotiations between levies officials and drivers led by the representatives of Truck Association, Malak Ashraf Kakar, strike was called off, re-opening the highway for traffic.