Textile Value Added Units on Strike

Thousands of factory workers and owners jointly took out protest rallies, blocked the traffic on Sheikhpura Road and Millat Road and burnt an office of Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco).

At various places police resorted to baton charge to maintain law and order, and more than two dozen protestors were arrested. The strike was observed by 300 home textile manufacturing units, 450 textile printing mills, 1100 hosiery units, 300 dyeing units, 400 sizing units, 500 stitching units and hundreds of small ancillary unit.

Thousands of workers of these units came out of their factories in Khurrianwala industrial belt carrying black flags and holding banners and placards with slogans like 'Save the value-added industry', 'Save the country' and 'Immediate ban on export of yarn and cotton'.