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Riot squads raided the 6 facilities used as garages by the companies Albayrak and Özpak Group, which provide cleaning services in the city of Lahore, around 02:30 this morning.
According to the information given by the members of the company to the AA correspondent, the police forcibly removed their employees and superiors from their places and threw them into the street during the raid.
THE POLICE RECRUITED SOME EMPLOYEES
It exploded due to the harsh attitude of the police Pakistani police, who attacked some employees, did not allow Turkish personnel to take their belongings.
On the other hand, company officials said that the police erased the images of the companies during the raid, but some images were recovered.
NO OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION
Pakistani authorities have not yet made any official statement on why the security forces, who are still in the garages, use this practice.
Özpak Senior Manager (CEO) Nizamettin Kocameşe and Albayrak Project Coordinator Çağrı Özel told Anadolu Agency (AA) that “Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) officials raided all 4 garages in Özpak and 2 in Albayrak along with the police from Lahore. “There is a fleet of more than 750 vehicles in these garages, including garbage cleaning trucks, trucks, and various vehicles. The police are still in our garages and they won’t let us in.”
According to information provided by the Turkish authorities, the service contracts of Turkish companies with LWMC will expire on December 31, 2020. The officials stated that they were asked to hand over their cleaning tools to the Lahore administration through pressure and threats before of this date, and stated that they did not accept the extension contract after December 31 and did not intend to participate in the new tender due to their discomfort with the threats that they would not be able to collect their accounts receivable.
The authorities claim that the pressure in question was carried out for this purpose.
‘ATTEMPTED SABOTAGE’
In the joint press release of the two companies preparing to file a criminal complaint against LWMC, the incident was described as “an attempt to sabotage the decision of the leaders of the two countries to increase trade volume” and “bullying” .
Turkish diplomatic sources affirmed that the necessary initiatives were taken before the competent authorities to ensure the solution of the problem through negotiations between the Pakistani authorities and companies.
On the other hand, the executive director of LWMC, Imran Ali Sultan, argued that the action in question was legal and that the seizure of the tools was in accordance with the specifications of the tender.
Sultan stated that the fleet of vehicles must be delivered to them according to the tender and said that otherwise they would request the support of the local administration.
