Government urged to waive off 6 months' rent of small traders - Press Release issued by Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Islamabad -- June 23, 2020 (PPI-OT)

Following is the text of press release issued by Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI)

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Tahir Abbasi, Senior Vice President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry has said that businesses have been ruined due to corona virus and lockdown was still going on in different areas of Islamabad. The situation has sent small traders to the point of starvation.

The government should either waive the six-month rent of small traders or pay it on its own as it has paid the electricity bills of businesses. He expressed these views while talking to Malik Rab Nawaz, President, Traders Welfare Association Jinnah Supermarket, Khalid Mehmood Chaudhry, Secretary Traders Action Committee. Executive Member of ICCI Mehboob Ahmed Khan and Saeed Ahmed Bhatti, Former Vice President ICCI were also present at the occasion.

Expressing his views on the occasion, former Senior Vice President of ICCI Khalid Chaudhry said that MCI has increased water bills by several hundred times which was tantamount to great injustice to the citizens and traders of Islamabad. He said that ordinary people were...