Strike at Karachi Port over worker's manhandling.

Byline: RECORDER REPORT

Tension gripped the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) on Saturday morning, when security personnel maltreated a staffer from traffic department leading to a two-hour strike at Karachi Port. According to sources, the unionists, including United Workers Front, People's Workers Union, Labour Union and Progressive Workers Union protested and went on strike when a Port Security Force (PSF) man from Pakistan Navy, Arshad, slapped Sahib Zada at NOB Gate of the Karachi Port.

They said the mariner had manhandled the traffic department's staffer after the letter's failure to produce entry pass. The workers, however, told Business Recorder that it was a routine …