Days after similar reports emerged from Karachi, Lahore’s traders called for general elections to be delayed in the country.

Anjuman Tajiran President Mujahid Maqsood Butt chaired a meeting in Lahore on Monday with presidents of unions of mnay of the city’s markets in attendance.

The meeting discussed problems facing the traders community in Lahore as well as general issues facing the country’s economy.

The traders welcomed the recent progress in the Pakistan Stock Exchange which is soaring to historic highs.

The traders said that the country needs cheap electricity, petrol and flour instead of immediate elections. They called for riddance from the IMF program as well.

The meeting’s participants also said that the caretaker government and the army chief’s efforts to bring investment in the country were bearing fruit.

Reports had recently emerged that caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar had been asked by a Karachi trader for elections to be delayed during an event at the Sindh Club.

The reports had added that the PM had respnded that he would stick to what was written in the constituion.

However, the the reports had been refuted later.