SCCI slams crackdown on Quetta arms factory

President of the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Maqsood Anwar Pervaiz, has expressed resentment over crackdown on arms manufacturing factory located in the small industrial estate on Kohat Road and arrest of people.
He asked the government to take prompt notice of what he said the unlawful act of district administration and police. He demanded of the government to take action against the officials involved.
In a statement issued here on Tuesday, the SCCI chief said the crackdown on the arms manufacturing unit, "harassment and arrest of people was an unlawful and illegitimate act which was carried out by the district administration and police".
He expressed the apprehension that the "illegal action" would create some mistrust among the government, the industrialists, police and the law-enforcement agencies. Besides it would also affect industrialization in the province.
Maqsood Pervaiz said that the provincial industries department had allowed the arms manufacturing factory to continue production, but even then the factory was raided, which was highly condemnable.
The SCCI chief also voiced his concern over alleged violence against small traders and shopkeepers, arrest and unnecessary harassment by local administration and police on the pretext of the ongoing lockdown in the city.