Business community deplores increasing highway robberies

HYDERABAD  –  The Hyderabad Chamber of Small Traders and Small Industry (HCSTSI) has expressed deep con­cern over recurrent armed robberies targeting goods transport drivers on the M-9 Motorway in Jamshoro district. In a statement issued here on Sunday, the chamber’s President exMPA Nadeem Ahmed Siddiqui and other office bearers gave reference of a recent robbery in which a truck trailer was stopped and looted near Nooriabad. They said the M-9 Motorway was a key route for the transportation of commercial goods between Karachi, Hyderabad and other cities of Sindh as well as other provinces, with a large number of goods vehicles using it daily to meet business and commercial requirements.

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They emphasized that if drivers felt unsafe while travelling, the consequences could affect the entire commercial and industrial supply chain. “Ensuring the safety of the lives and prop­erty of the business community and transport workers is a fundamental responsibility of the authorities,” Siddiqui underlined.

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