F.P. Report
KARACHI: All Pakistan Oil Tankers Association (APOTA) has announced to starts countrywide strike in favor of their demands.
APOTA has complained that OGRA and National Highway Authority have made promises to them after a similar strike in July this year and it is yet to be fulfilled.
It added that APOTA are compelled to go on a strike from October 23 by halting our tankers and all the responsibility will be on the shoulder of the authorities. The association wrote a letter to Sindh IG. The strike will likely may cause countrywide fuel crisis.
They also complained about the attitude and behavior of OGRA and Motorways police towards the transporters and adding that oil tankers pay advances for three months to the government and still the government is trying to torture the oil tankers with different tactics.
There has been no meeting among the heads of OGRA, oil marketing companies and oil tankers owners association ever since the petroleum ministry handed over the matters of oil tankers to OGRA.
