Business community shows concern on CDA , MCI performance.

Islamabad -- Senior Vice President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), Tahir Abbasi said that Municipal Corporation Islamabad (MCI) had unilaterally and illegally made 300 percent increase in trade license fee on which traders have many reservations.

He said this while talking to a delegation of local traders during their visit to ICCI.

He said that business community was not against payment of tax, but making increase without following set procedure was unjustified. said that at the one hand, MCI has setup a separate department for removal of encroachments, but on the other hand, MCI has allowed pushcarts to do sale on footpaths on payment of rent. Hesaid that the DMA staff was receiving extortion from them and...