A large number of traders from the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration against the unjust taxes imposed on them by the government.
The protesting business community gathered in front of the Parliament House from where they moved towards Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and staged a sit-in while some clashes between police and protestors were also reported as traders entered into the red zone area by removing barricades. Law enforcers tried hard to calm down the protestors as the joint session of National Assembly and Senate was also in process.
The protestors said that traders could not afford burden of new taxes, and rejected all the new taxes imposed by government in different forms. They criticized that government had completely failed to provide relief to masses, saying that business and trade activities were getting affected due to escalating terrorism situation, adding that unprecedented hike in petroleum prices, electricity and gas tariff had already multiplied the miseries of traders and general masses.
The protesting traders requested the Supreme Court to take suo moto action against unfair taxes.
They further demanded that the government and the higher authorities should immediately take back the decision of imposing more taxes on traders.
11 outlaws nabbed, 82 bottles of liquor recovered: The city police on Tuesday arrested 11 outlaws from various areas of the city and recovered 82 wine bottles, one stolen vehicle, hashish and pistols from their possession.
According to details, Station House Officer of Aabpara police station Inspector Khalid Mehmud Awan and ASI Nasir Manzoor arrested a bootlegger Shani Masih during routine patrolling and recovered 80 wine bottles from his possession. ASI Binyamin Gohar from Margallah police station arrested Niaz for possessing a repeater gun.
Sihala police apprehended a thief identified as Naheed and recovered stolen items worth Rs 130,000 from him while Shahzad Town Police arrested a drug-pusher Khalid Khan for possessing of 450 gram hashish.
ASI Muhammad Iqbal from Shalimar police apprehended a thief Zulfiqar Ahmed for having stolen items worth Rs 115,000 while two thieves Uzair and Anwer Zaman were arrested by ASI Saif Ullah from Industrial area police station.
ASI Muhammad Arif from Ramna police recovered Suzuki van (LEA-1245) from Tauqeer which was found stolen from the area of Shalimar police station, Islamabad.
Tarnol police station arrested Rizwan and Wazeer Ahmed for having two 30 bore pistols. ASI Muhammad Akram from Sabzi Mandi police recovered a dagger from Deeb Gul.
