{"id":81006,"date":"2025-07-21T13:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=81006"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:26:16","slug":"utility-stores-employees-launch-sit-in-in-islamabad-amid-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/utility-stores-employees-launch-sit-in-in-islamabad-amid-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Utility stores employees launch sit-in in Islamabad amid closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/utility-stores-to-shut-down-permanently-from-this-date\/\">Utility Stores Joint Action Committee<\/a> said that employees from all across Pakistan are reaching the capital to join the protest. The committee has stated that the sit-in will go on until their demands are fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement filled with conviction, the committee stated that closing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-confirms-privatization-of-utility-stores-corporation\/\">Utility Stores<\/a> would mean leaving 260 million people at the mercy of the &#8220;mafias of inflation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Workers in workers are congregating outside the USC headquarters and will hold a march towards the Parliament House today, the committee further added.<\/p>\n<p>Joint Action Committee Chairman Syed Arif Hussain Shah warned that the closing of Utility Stores will unleash a new wave of inflation and make thousands of families unemployed. He further added that the move also defies national laws.<\/p>\n<p>We will not relinquish our legal rights,&#8221; the committee declared, inviting the President of Pakistan and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to take notice of what they referred to as an &#8220;illegal&#8221; step by the government.<\/p>\n<p>The protest is likely to escalate if the government does not reverse the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Utility Stores Joint Action Committee said that employees from all across Pakistan are reaching the capital to join the protest. The committee has stated that the sit-in will go on until their demands are fulfilled. In a statement filled with conviction, the committee stated that closing Utility Stores would mean leaving 260 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":45944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30156,30248],"class_list":["post-81006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-utility-stores-closure","tag-utility-stores-employees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81006","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=81006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81009,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81006\/revisions\/81009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}