G-B Tax Issue: Traders postpone strike till Nov 23

Traders’ body announced the ending of a three-day shutter-down strike

GILGIT: The traders union and All Parties Core Committee on Thursday postponed strike till November 23 following assurance by the members of G-B government regarding cancellation of Income Tax Act2012. On this, the traders’ body announced ending of three-day shutter-down strike. This was decided during a meeting attended by G-B Minister Dr Iqbal Khan, MLA Aurangzaib Advocate, G-B CM’s special assistant Farooq Mir and government spokesman Faizullah Faiz, while traders were represented by Ashraf Khan, Arman Shah, Sultan Ali Khan and Wazir Akhlaq.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 17^th, 2017.