CD Shops in Karachi under threat to close

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@Ajju

Here is the ANP point of view of these banners as reported in the Daily Times. I guess, the pressure on CD markets to close and the banners are very much real. Whether it is Taliban’s pressure or the owner of the market wanting to something else with shops is debataable. The banners seem specific to CD shops business only though. The earilar report and the wording on the banners seem to imply that the shop keepers could remain there and do some other business just not of CDs.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

‘CD markets face no threats’
KARACHI: The Awami National Party (ANP) has claimed that that CD shops in the city were facing no threats. According to a press release by ANP on Friday, the party’s provincial general secretary Muhammad Amin Khattak, Syed Ahmed Khan and Hanfi Advocate visited different CD markets including Madina Market along with traders’ leaders.

“The banners on display at the market were to vacate the wood-made cabins as the owner wanted to make a building there. But it is regrettable that this was being used to raise fears of Talibanisation in the city,” the ANP statement added. The release further said that the business of Pakhtoons were being destroyed in the name of Talibanisation and therefore the Sindh governor, chief minister and home minister should look into the matter and provide security to them.

Exactly, what I was thinking… This definitely has to be something with the trade or legality of the place.

Cause Taliban don’t do ultimatums like these, they do small boom boom, and then big kazoom…