Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Aug 31: People staged protest dharna against opening of a wine shop in Ward number 11 in Poonch and urged the District Administration to close thus shop.
Protesting people expressed resentment against the Excise department and raised slogans to close the wine shop near SK bridge in Poonch and said that the Government has compelled them to sit on protest at night.
Advocate Syed Aqib Hussain said that Excise Department was thinking about the revenue generation but it the matter of our generations and we would not let these shops open in Poonch and the protest dharna will be continued till the shop will not be closed ward number 11.
“We warn Government to take decision of closing this shop in time otherwise people will intensify protest. Government must not think that after closing the shops in Draba and Potha areas of Surankote, people of of Haveli will welcome the step of opening wine shop, we reject to have these shops in Poonch as well”, he added.
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