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Daewoo suspends bus service from Multan
 Korean transport company Daewoo has suspended its Multan-Lahore and Multan-Peshawar bus services until the restoration of normalcy, company's spokesperson said on Thursday. "We have suspended services on these routes for the time being, and will resume running buses on these routes after the situation returns to normal," he said after the company's terminal in Peshawar was torched on Wednesday. Meanwhile, local transport also remained suspended in Multan, while a franchise office of Scandinavian mobile service provider Telenor was closed in Dera Ghazi Khan by its owners, and the company's publicity boards were also removed from the city.From the looting article above: Local transporters had been protesting the permission granted to the South Korean company Daewoo to run their buses on various routes within the province. Since the company provides quality service, commuters preferred Daewoo to local bus services on long routes. The protesters, led allegedly by some local transport union leaders, went to the Daewoo bus stand and set busses and coaches on fire causing a loss of millions of rupees. The company suffered a loss of between Rs 250 million and Rs 300 million, the manager of the company told reporters. Posted by: Fred 2006-02-17 |
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