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India-Pakistan
Daewoo suspends bus service from Multan
2006-02-17
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

#2  until the restoration of normalcy

Uh ... that might take a real, real loooooong time. Like for-fricking-evah. Not that there ever was any normalcy to begin with.

It's difficult not to gloat watching Pakistan's economy swirl around and 'round as it gets sucked into the toilet of Islamist extremism. Musharraf is getting his just reward for all his perfidy.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-02-17 14:46  

#1  Sounds to me like the Pakis need one large collective spanking. An intense one at that.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2006-02-17 09:55  

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