Aram Bagh furniture market traders announce a protest (tomorrow)

 Aram Bagh furniture market traders announce a protest (tomorrow) against the exorbitant and unbearable increases in material prices.

KARACHI (Furniture traders across the country will be protesting in their respective markets against the ever-increasing inflation, steep and unsustainable increase in the prices of furniture materials, and dire unemployment as a result of the government's measures, whereby the traders of Aram Bagh furniture market will all Under the leadership of Atiq Mir, Chairman of Karachi Traders Union and Patron General of Aram Bagh Furniture Market Association, they will hold a protest by closing the market at Khaliqdina Hall, MA Jinnah Road from 3 pm to 5 pm on Tuesday (tomorrow).
In this regard, Atiq Mir said in one of his statements that on the one hand, the government is attacking the people with inflation, and on the other hand foam, hardware, glass, particle board, hardboard, plastic, wood, iron, resin, steel pipe. Manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers of every material used in furniture, including sofa fabric, lasagna board, paint, and polishing materials, are raising arbitrary prices from time to time. As a result of which it has become more difficult to do furniture business, furniture artisans are unemployed and layoffs have started, as a result of the lack of work, the capacity of new employees and artisans in furniture shops and factories has ended. Due to the unbearable increase, the purchase of furniture has become beyond the reach of the common man and it has become difficult for the poor to marry their daughters. The prices of facilities provided at the surface are low and unprofitable He said that due to unstoppable inflation, most of the small furniture businesses are about to close, while stable and strong businesses have also suffered destruction, the stock of goods in shops and factories is frozen and the markets are closed. In Sanate Chagaye, most of the shopkeepers and manufacturers have gone into debt due to the loss of their savings. He warned the mafias who imposed artificial inflation and said that if they do not correct their Qiblah and do not curb the arbitrary increase in prices, we will boycott their products and protest against them.