{"id":69910,"date":"2025-04-07T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=69910"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:36:16","slug":"karachi-markets-to-remain-closed-today-in-support-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/karachi-markets-to-remain-closed-today-in-support-of-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Karachi markets to remain closed today in support of Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"diff-highlight\">KARACHI: Major<\/span> markets <span class=\"diff-highlight\">in<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Karachi,<\/span> including Sarafa Bazaar, Medicine Market, Jodia Bazaar, and other wholesale markets, will <span class=\"diff-highlight\">be<\/span> closed today in <span class=\"diff-highlight\">support<\/span> of the people of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Rizwan Irfan, President of<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-railways-to-resume-karachi-peshawar-train-service\/\"> Karachi Electronic Dealers Association<\/a>, Jamil Paracha, leader of Karachi Tajir Ittehad, <span class=\"diff-highlight\">and<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">other<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">traders<\/span> have <span class=\"diff-highlight\">called<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">upon<\/span> traders to close their businesses in support of the Palestinian cause <span class=\"diff-highlight\">for<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">the<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">day<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Trader leader Shakir Fancy confirmed <span class=\"diff-highlight\">the<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">closing<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">of<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">the<\/span> markets in Mithadar, Old City Area, and Sarafa Bazaar, while Abdul Rauf Ibrahim <span class=\"diff-highlight\">stated<\/span> that Jodia Bazaar, the largest wholesale market <span class=\"diff-highlight\">in<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">the<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">country<\/span>, <span class=\"diff-highlight\">would<\/span> also <span class=\"diff-highlight\">close<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">its<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">operations<\/span> concerning\u00a0<span class=\"diff-highlight\">today<\/span><span class=\"diff-highlight\">&#8216;<\/span><span class=\"diff-highlight\">s<\/span> day <span class=\"diff-highlight\">of<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">mourning<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">for<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-shehbaz-vows-to-continue-support-kashmir-palestine\/\"><span class=\"diff-highlight\">Palestinian<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">people<\/span><\/a><span class=\"diff-highlight\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aslam Polani, General Secretary of Jodia Bazaar <span class=\"diff-highlight\">and<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">the<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Aram<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Bagh<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Traders<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Association,<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">fully<\/span> supports <span class=\"diff-highlight\">the<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">planned<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">closure<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">of<\/span> the <span class=\"diff-highlight\">markets<\/span>, with <span class=\"diff-highlight\">the<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Medicine<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Markets<\/span> in the area also closed.<\/p>\n<p>This protest <span class=\"diff-highlight\">took<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">place<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">following<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">widespread<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">destruction<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">and<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">casualties<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">resulting<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">from<\/span> reports of <span class=\"diff-highlight\">continued<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Israeli<\/span> bombing <span class=\"diff-highlight\">on<\/span> a\u00a0<span class=\"diff-highlight\">grand<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">scale<\/span> in <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Gaza<\/span>. The business community <span class=\"diff-highlight\">within<\/span> Karachi has come together to <span class=\"diff-highlight\">denounce<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">the<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">actions<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">of<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Israel<\/span>\u00a0and <span class=\"diff-highlight\">to<\/span> show solidarity with the people of Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Major markets in Karachi, including Sarafa Bazaar, Medicine Market, Jodia Bazaar, and other wholesale markets, will be closed today in support of the people of Gaza. Rizwan Irfan, President of Karachi Electronic Dealers Association, Jamil Paracha, leader of Karachi Tajir Ittehad, and other traders have called upon traders to close their businesses in support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":55735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14811,2],"tags":[18943,27593,27594],"class_list":["post-69910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi","category-pakistan","tag-karachi-electronic-dealers-association","tag-karachi-markets-to-remain-closed-today","tag-karachi-tajir-ittehad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69911,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69910\/revisions\/69911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}