Traders set to observe strike on Oct 29, 30 against taxes.

PESHAWAR -- The business community will observe a two-day shutter down strike on Oct 29 and 30 against the imposition of taxes, and warned to expand the protest if the condition of presenting a CNIC copy for buying and selling goods up to Rs50,000 is not withdrawn.

'All the five groups of traders across the country irrespective of their local issues have joined hands to observe a successful strike at the national level as the government is not ready to accept our genuine demands,' Markazi Tanzeem-i-Tajiran provincial president Haji Sharafat Ali Mubarak said while talking to this correspondent on Sunday.

He said the business community could not afford to pay any additional tax as inflation and devaluation of currency had already hit them hard.

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Similarly, Malik Meher Ilahi, president of his own faction of Markazi Tanzeem-i-Tajiran, also vowed to make the shutter down strike a success. 'We will observe the strike on a call given by All Pakistan Anjuman-i-Tajran, saying all rounds of talks between the traders and the government failed,' he said.

Mr Ilahi said a deadlock persisted on issues ranging from mandatory sales tax registration to the condition of presenting a CNIC copy for buying and selling goods.

Peshawar chamber of small traders and small industries president Mohammad Atif Haleem said the industrialists, wholesale traders and retailers were on the same page to make the Oct 29-30 strike a success.

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