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General NewsFarmers hold protest against WTO regimeLAHORE, April 17: Farmers here on Tuesday took out a protest procession against the World Trade Organisation regime, terming it lethal for the farming sector.
The procession started from the Davis Road and, after marching on the Egerton Road up to Awan-i-Iqbal, retuned to the Lahore Press Club where farmers from Balochistan, NWFP and Punjab addressed the gathering.
Anwar Baloch of Balochistan termed the WTO a conspiracy against farmers and said they aware of the nefarious plot. Farmers, he said, would not sleepwalk into the trap and resist it with their might.
Jan Nisar Khalil of the NWFP said the WTO regime would harm farmers. He said developed countries wanted to exploit the poor. He said farmers from under-developed countries should oppose the WTO regime. There could be no unique recipe for diverse and indigenous problems of farmers, he observed.
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