Pakistan Transporters Threaten Nationwide Strike Over Fuel Price Hikes

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Pakistan’s goods transport alliance has threatened a nationwide strike due to rising fuel prices, a move reflecting economic pressures intensified by the Middle East crisis. The transporters criticize the government's fuel price hikes, signaling potential disruption in the country’s logistics sector.

Pakistan’s alliance of goods transporters has warned it could launch a nationwide strike over soaring fuel costs in another economic pressure that the South Asian country is feeling from the Middle East crisis. “Transporters across Pakistan should remain prepared; a nationwide strike call can be given at any time,” Malik Shehzad Awan, president of the Pakistan Goods Transport Alliance, said in a statement carried by local media on Friday. The alliance slammed the Pakistani government’s decision to hike fuel prices in the…