By our correspondent
Adelaide: The cabbies stir which shut down the city recently, after the bashing up of an Indian taxi driver Balraj Singh (also an overseas student) is likely to see high level diplomatic intervention to solve the issue. The Sunday Mail has reported quoting a spokesman from the Indian High Commission saying that Indian Ambassador Sujatha Singh would travel to Adelaide for the talks. She is likely to be joined there by her Pakistani counterpart High Commissioner Jalil Abbas Jilani in the mission.
WA Transport Minister Patrick Conlon has said he invited the top-level diplomats to help settle the dispute. “It’s plain that the taxi drivers involved in the recent protest were predominantly from one or two types of local communities,” he was quoted as saying by the Sunday Mail. “So we are arranging for the high commissioners from India and Pakistan to come and have a talk with them and assist in resolving any difficulties they have,” he told the Sunday Mail.
The mainly Indian and Pakistani cabbies are demanding more security (and other issues) on the lines of promises made to cabbies in Melbourne after a Indian cabbie was stabbed and left to bleed on a road side.
- May 26, 2008
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