LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (PML) senior central leader and former deputy prime minister Ch Parvez Elahi has said that his party stands with traders on their demand about withholding tax and will raise voice against this oppression on them both inside and outside the assembly.
He said this while talking to a delegation of Liberty Small Traders Association, headed by Babar Butt, which called on him at his residence here. Ch Parvez Elahi said that traders are backbone of national economy,.
He said PML-N after coming into power by securing their votes instead of providing them incentives promises and solving their problems they are entangled in new problems, by imposing withholding tax such an oppression has been done with them that entire traders community is protesting but their genuine complaints are being ignored, he added.
Delegation members while appreciating services of Ch Parvez Elahi for traders said that that during his tenure Model Liberty Centre was established with provision of Rs 16 crore whereas for common and poor man number of welfare projects including Rescue 1122, free medicines and free education were launched, traders regarded the Chief Minister House as their own home and their problems were solved in just one meeting.
Delegation included Ansar Zahur Butt, Rana Ikhlaq Ahmad, Humayun Mir, Dr Burhan Ahmad,, Ch Islam, Hakim Allah Rakha Salfi, Ghulam Bashir Piya, Mohammad Haroon, Shahid Iqbal Moosa, Ch Asif Siyal, Ch Bashir Virk, Ghulam Hussain Awan, Mian Haroon, Mohammad Adnan, among others. Main Market Raja Centre Chairman Ghulam Hussain was also present.
