Govt urged to waive off six month rent of small traders.

ISLAMABAD -- Senior Vice President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) Tahir Abbasi, on Tuesday said businesses have been ruined due to coronavirus and lockdown was still going on in different areas of Islamabad.

He said the situation has sent small traders to the point of starvation, and urged the government either waive off 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 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 Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad has increased water bills by several hundred times which was...