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A general view of a closed market area is seen in Lahore on May 9. AFP
LAHORE: Traders on Sunday asked the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) to take notice of inappropriate use of army troops for forcibly closing down the businesses of small traders by the government and announced that they would hold a protest demonstration in front of the NCOC headquarters in Islamabad after Eid.
“This is for Gen Qamar Javaid Bajwa (COAS). The army was called by the government under Article 245 to ensure implementation of the Covid-19 SOPs. But it was being used by the government to get the businesses of small shopkeepers forcibly closed which is a wrong act on the part of government,” All Pakistan Anjuman Tajran General Secretary Naeem Mir said in his video message.
Islamabad: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) in a meeting has expressed concerns over violations of lockdown across the country by people caught apparently in an Eid shopping spree and issued directions to the federal and the provincial governments to enforce lockdown strictly and take action against the violators.
The decision was taken during a meeting of the NCOC jointly chaired by Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiative Asad Umar and Lt Gen Hamooduz Zaman Khan and attended by all the chief secretaries of the respective administrative units.
The meeting reviewed in detail the mobility control measures being implemented across the country from May 8 to 16.