Poultry traders protest against police for 'demanding bribe'.

LAKKI MARWAT -- The poultry traders demonstrated in Bannu city on Tuesday against the Punjab police for demanding bribe from them for transporting chicken.

The protesters converged in front of the press club, where leaders of the poultry traders' association, Laal Shebaz and Hidayatullah, addressed the gathering.

They said a number of poultry traders transported chicken from different parts of Punjab to Bannu. However, they alleged that the Punjab police deployed at border checkposts demanded money from them.

They said many poultry traders had to use alternative routes to enter Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from Punjab to avoid interception by the police. They asked the Punjab government to stop traders' maltreatment at the hands of police.

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He was speaking as the...