Property dealers call for urgent reforms
The All Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Property Dealers Association has demanded immediate action from the government to prevent the collapse of the property sector, urging the elimination of “oppressive taxes.”
A press conference organised by the United Property Dealers at Peshawar Press Club, in which the All K-P Property Dealers Association’s officials, including its President Yunus Khan, DHA President Abid Ali, Ismatullah Afridi, Haji Iqbal, and the association’s Jafar Khan addressed the media alongside other property dealers.
During the press conference, the officials expressed concern over the crippling effects of exorbitant electricity bills and taxes, which are pushing individuals towards extreme measures, including suicides. They highlighted that the current situation was tantamount to a nuclear explosion for the impoverished masses, and as a result, millions were rendered unemployed – leading to daily quarrels, rampant thefts and robberies.
The officials stated that no one was keeping a check on the prevailing reign of the land mafia. They pointed out that the bogus housing schemes, generally in the K-P and particularly in Peshawar, were duping the common people.
They called for an immediate end to unjust taxes and a halt to such housing schemes. Moreover, they demanded that the provincial revenue department should be saved from losses to the tune of billions of rupees.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 29th, 2023.