LAHORE: All-Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajran has written an open letter to Khalid Pervaiz, urging him to call off his August 5 strike call against withholding tax.
It has argued in the letter that the unsuccessful strike will damage the cause of the traders who, it said, had staged a successful shutter-down strike from Khyber to Karachi on August 1, 2015.
On the other hand, while addressing a press conference, Khalid Pervaiz, Haji Maqsood Butt and others urged the traders to withdraw all their money from banks in support of their August 5 strike.
In another press conference at the Lahore Press Club the leadership of APAT, including president Ajmal Baloch, chairman Haji Shafiq, central general secretary Naeem Mir, said they would not participate in the strike on August 5 that has been called by Khalid Pervaiz group. The press conference was also attended by other trading community leaders, including Ashraf Bhatti, Agha Adnan, Babar Butt, Unsar Zahoor Butt, Mushtaq Ahmed, Abdul Wadood Alvi, Malik Tahir, Alti Nusrat Butt, Mian Tariq Feroze, Malik Kalim and Mian Khalil.
PML-N traders’ wing president Muhammad Ali Mian said “seasonal traders” were staging protest demonstrations, but the ultimate solution to the withholding tax issue would be given by them through successful talks with the government.
