Say govern­ment is adding to their worrie­s as their econom­ic condit­ion is alread­y badLAHORE: More than 200 qingqi rickshaw drivers staged a protest against alleged unnecessary challans by Lahore Transport Company (LTC), which is a public bus service, near Qazalbash Chowk on Saturday. Arfan Ali, an organiser of Punjab Rickshaw Union, while talking to The Express Tribune said that the force was issuing unnecessary challans to the qingqi rickshaw drivers. He added that it caused a great trouble to the rickshaw drivers as their economic condition was already bad. He added that according to their information, the government was taking action against them to show that public was using buses affiliated with OLMT. They were taking action against them to make their project successful.”Ali said that senior police officers had also reached the protest site and told rickshaw drivers that the Lahore High Court had already issued orders to eliminate qingqi rickshaws in the city.

Source: The Express Tribune December 17, 2017 09:00 UTC