The Pakistan Chemists and Druggists Association has also taken out a protest rally from Chowk Ghantha Ghar to Multan DPO office under the leadership of Muhammad Akhtar Butt, Rizwan Ahmed Khan, Abid Pirzada and Saeed Qureshi and presented a memorandum to acting DPO who assured that robbers would be arrested very soon.
The life saving medicine dealers had given the deadline of 72 hours which ended on Sunday last and now they had launched their protest drive which would continue till the apprehension of the robbers. They wore black armbands warned for suspending the medicine supply to entire markets for not apprehending dacoits with in served deadline and threatened for shutter down and fastening black arm bands in the second and third phases.
Earlier, unidentified dacoits made a clean sweep at life saving drugs warehouse in thickly populated area on January 16 and fled after loading medicines worth more than Rs 20 million in two trucks. However, police remained fail in tracing two heavy trucks or finding any clue of Rs 20 million drugs dacoity after lapsing 12 days and still groping in dark.
Pakistan Chemists and Druggists Association president Muhammad Akhtar Butt said that life saving druggists have incurred heavy financial loss of Rs 150 million in last two years as a result of robberies. He said that black banners have been hanged outside drugs shops in protest while wearing of black arm bands and shutter down would be observed in second and third phase for not rounding up dacoits.
Butt said that police and administration has repeatedly been reminded and requested for the arrest of dacoits but they did not take serious notice on their demands. The association completely held police failure responsible for this high level robbery and threatened for strike for not apprehending dacoits.