PESHAWAR/LAHORE, Pakistan : Markets in major Pakistani cities on Wednesday spurned a new government directive to shut early under an energy conservation drive, in a blow to the cash-strapped country's plans to curtail energy imports amidst an economic crisis.
Reuters reporters in the nation's largest cities of Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar, saw almost all major markets and malls staying open beyond the cut-off time on Wednesday. "This policy will kill me and my business, which starts after 8 p.m. when children come to my shop with their parents," Muhammad Raza, a toy shop owner in the eastern city of Lahore, said.
In Karachi, Pakistan's commercial hub, president of the Pakistan Traders Association, Mohammad Ajmal Baloch, also said local traders were reluctant to cut business hours short.
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