Shopkeepers assure implementing SOPs

Quetta:Rahim Agha President Anjuman-e-Tajiran Balochistan, General Secretary Allah Dad Tareen, Nasruddin Kakar, Haji Ghulam Farooq Shahwani, Aslam Tareen, Haji Yaqoob Shah Kakar, Ghulam Mehdi Hazara, Mir Akram Bangulzai and Iftikhar Hussain in their joint statement issued here on Saturday said that although the government has granted ease in lockdown, yet it seems that precautionary measures are being violated by shopkeepers.

They said expressing annoyance over the violation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), government authorities had decided to enforce lockdown afresh, but in the meantime head of provincial negotiating team provincial Minister for Board of Revenue Mir Saleem Khosa contacted Raheem Agha President Anjuman-e-Tajiran Balochistan and conveyed the concern of government.

Office bearers of Anjuman-e-Tajiran Balochistan assured that they would launch campaign to create awareness amongst shopkeepers to follow preventive and precautionary measures. They urged shopkeepers to abide by the agreement inked between government and trader organizations and follow Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs).