Karachi: Expensive Fruits boycott drive has been extended to further two days which was earlier initiated by JDC Founder Zafar Abbas and well-known businessmen and General Secretary of All Karachi Restaurants Association Faizan Rawat in city.

More and more general buyers besides members of business community, entertainment, sports celebrities and politicians of different parties, educationists and journalists have fully endorsed stance undertaken by Zafar Abbas and Faizan Rawat.

Zafar Abbas and Faizan Rawat  also appealed to citizens to keep pressure on profiteers and hoarders of fruits and fresh milk merchants until they bow down to kneel and start selling fruits in accordance with Commissioner’s Office issued list. Abbas have also urged Commissioner Karachi and administration to intensify crackdown against profiteers in main ‘Vegetable Market’after the vendors complained that they are getting fruits, vegetables at high cost from the main market due to which they are selling at exorbitant rates.

It is noticed that in many parts of city, prices of fruits have started decreasing slighlty but at several places vendors are dead busy in selling fruits at prices as per their own choices. Subsequent to the boycott call by  Zafar Abbas, citizens have shown immense interest and registered their genuine protests by not purchasing fruits at high prices.

Moreover, with the extension of two more days in the strike call by the JDC Founder and Faizan Rawat, all the members of the business community, traders associations have vowed full support to the cause until the prices comes to an easily affordable rates.  Rawat said that time has come to expose the mafias behind this horrible act of increasing prices during the month of Ramazan and this injustice will soon be wiped out from the society through collective efforts of all the stakeholders and the general public.

Meanwhile, citizens are continuously making videos of iftar without fruit and sharing it with their friends and relatives on social media platforms in order to create more awareness of this drive.

Published in The Daily National Courier, March, 28 2023

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