Road communication of Pabna with 22 districts halted due to strike

Road communication of Pabna with 22 districts has been suspended since this morning following an indefinite transport strike.

Vehicular movement between southern and northern districts through the highways of Pabna came to a halt from 6:00am due to the strike, our Pabna correspondent reports.

Transport Owners and Workers Association enforced the strike protesting extortion on Dhaka-Pabna highway, our correspondent reports.

Many were seen walking to their destinations.

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Habibur Rahman Habib, president of Pabna district unit of Transport Owners Association, said that transport workers often face extortion and harassment allegedly by members of the transport association in Sirajganj's Shahzadpur upazila.

"We have called the strike pressing six-point demands in protest of the continuous harassment and extortion on the highway at Shahzadpur," Habib, also a freedom fighter, said.

"We have placed six-point demands with a 72-hour ultimatum," said Firoz Khan, a leader of the district's transport workers association.

Steps are yet to be taken by the administration in this regard, he added.