Pakistan Transporters Threaten Nationwide Strike Over Fuel Price Hikes

Pakistan’s alliance of goods transporters has warned it could launch a nationwide strike over soaring fuel costs in another economic pressure that the South Asian country is feeling from the Middle East crisis.

“Transporters across Pakistan should remain prepared; a nationwide strike call can be given at any time,” Malik Shehzad Awan, president of the Pakistan Goods Transport Alliance, said in a statement carried by local media on Friday.

The alliance slammed the Pakistani government’s decision to hike fuel prices in the…