Transporters announce strike against injustices at Naka Khari check post

• The transporters announce an indefinite strike against checking at check posts
• They alleged injustices with drivers and passengers by coast guards
• They said the Naka Khari check post should be removed from highway

The owners of passenger coaches and buses plying between Quetta and Karachi went on strike for an indefinite period on Wednesday against what they called the atrocities and unnecessary checking and atrocities of coast guards with the drivers and passengers at Naka Khari check post.

They parked their coaches and buses in front of the Coast Guards check posts at Quetta-Karachi route and announced that they will not call off their strike until the coast guard check post is removed from the highway.

Quetta-Karachi coaches union Patron Chief Imtiaz Lehri, Haji Dolat Khan Lehri, President Haji Abdullah Kurd, and other transporters, in a joint press conference, said that if their demands were not met, they would shut down transport in Quetta and on other routes.

The transporters said that they were running coaches between Quetta and Karachi on a single road due to which they also faced traffic incidents and despite the demand of the transporters and Government of Balochistan, the highway was not made dual-carriage.

They said that on the other hand, they were facing atrocities of coast guards who had established their check post at Naka Khari near Winder of Hub district.

“The coaches, who arrive early, the coast guards, detained them for three hours in the name of unnecessary checking,” Imtiaz Lehri said, adding that the coaches which arrived late at the check post were detained for four to five hours without any justification.

The leaders of the union said that the goods passengers and the transporters bring with them after purchasing from Quetta, could be checked by customs, FC and other concerned authorities at Quetta.

They said that the coast guards has established their check post at the Quetta-Karachi national highway unnecessarily and using the custom act powers for checking the passenger luggage.

“The coast guards could establish their check posts near the coastal area instead  of the highways,” Haji Dolat khan Lehri said, adding that if custom seize any goods, it give its  receipt to the owner and letter auction it, but the coast guards provide no receipt to the owner of goods and also not action.

“Is it smuggling bringing goods from Quetta to Hub.” They questioned and said why the authorities did not stop smuggling at the borders.

They said that the transporters were also facing a financial crisis due to inflation and increasing petrol and diesel prices. They said that despite this situation the transporters were giving relief to the passengers.

The transporters union leaders warned that if the federal government did not take notice of the atrocities of coast guards, they would not restore coach service.

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