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).
Thousands of textile factories of value-added textile sector observed strike on Tuesday and demanded complete ban on export of yarn and cotton from the country reported by A Pakistan News.
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’.
Chanting slogans, the protest rally marched towards Millat Chowk and joined the hosiery workers’ rally. These rallies blocked traffic and burnt tyres. Police restored to baton charge, injuring 10 workers and taking into custody 20 workers. From Millat chowk, the rallies marched towards District Council Chowk where rallies from other parts of the city like Jhang Road, Sammundri Road, Sargodha Road and Jaranwala Road also joined.
At District Council chowk, sit-in and a demonstration were held. Chairman of Pakistan Textile Exporters Association Khurram Mukhtar said that cotton and yarn were the basic and most essential raw material of the value-added sector constituting 40 percent of total input. The value-added textile industry is unable to operate if this basic raw material is not available.
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