LAKKI MARWAT, Nov 26: The butchers and vegetable sellers unions have demanded of the local administration to provide butchers and vegetable vendors with alternative place after they were uprooted from the Naurang bazaar.

Talking to reporters in Naurang town on Tuesday, the butchers` union president Haji Haq Nawaz and vegetable sellers` union president Zainullah Khan said local administration removed makeshift and temporary outlets of butchers, vegetable sellers and other vendors from roadsides some six months to make way for widening of GT road in Naurang baZaar.

`At that time the affected shopkeepers were assured that they would be given a separate place for doing their businesses. However, concerned officials didn`t keep their promise.

We have been out of business for the last six months,` they said.

`The road is being widened at the cost of snatching livelihood of hundreds of small time traders,` they maintained and said that they were unable to make both ends meet in the prevailing situation.

The unions` leaders warned that members of their communities would set up a hunger strike camp in front of the chief minister house in Peshawar if local authorities didn`t provide alternative place to them within one week.

OUTLAWS ARRESTED: Police arrested several wanted criminals during a search operation in different parts of the district on Tuesday.

`The operation was launched on the information about the presence of outlaws in the area,` said an official. He said commandos of Elite Force and Anti-Terror Squad assisted policemen in actions against the outlaws. `In separate actions the law enforcers apprehended 23 criminals and seized five rifles, two shotguns, five pistols, two daggers, 126 bullets, 800 grams hashish and small quantity of heroin from anti-social elements,` said the official. Correspondent