MULTAN,Jan 9th:All Pakistan Traders Convention has announced to complete shutter down on January 20 and protest rallies on each week would also be organised and traders warned of more protests if unannounced load-shedding was not stopped immediately.Addressing the convention Khawaja Muhammad Shafiq, Shaikh Basharat Shaukat, Irshad Hussain Bhatti, Haji Taj-din, Rao Khalil Ahmed,Rao Ehsan-ul-Haq and Akbar Shaheen in Vehari said that traders of southern Punjab were paying more taxes than Faisalabad and other big citiies and They pay utility bills well in time regularly, Inspite of that 16 to 20 hours loadshedding was being observed in this region .They appealed to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif to look into the matter which was hitting the entire trading sector hard.They said prolonged power outages had forced them to launch a protest but if the Multan Electric Power Company (MEPCO) failed to meet its commitment, they would be left with no option but to stage more protests.They said the business community was under the impression that there was an acute shortage of electricity in the country and they were ready to cooperate with the government, but unfortunately unannounced power outages had pushed the entire business as well as industrial sector to the wall and forced them to take to the streets.They said thousands of industrial workers were facing the threat of unemployment in the wake of non-availability of electricity but the government was playing the role of a silent spectator.They said the economic crisis would further deepen in coming days as the industry had failed to meet existing export orders let alone new orders.Traders said the bureaucracy was not interested in improving the situation and was pushing the industrialists to come on streets.