SUKKUR, June 19: A jirga will be held on Sunday at the residence of Jamali tribe's chief Yar Mohammad in Rujhan Jamali, Balochistan, to resolve a dispute among Mahar, Almani and Korai tribes, this correspondent learnt from reliable sources.
The marriage of Shaista Almani and Balksher Mahar had caused the dispute which led to bloodshed last month when Almani and other Baloch tribes refused to accept a verdict of the Sindh High Court in the matter.
The jirga to resolve the dispute is being held in Balochistan as the Sindh High Court has imposed a ban on holding jirgas in the province.
WALL DEMOLATION URGED: A group of people took out a protest procession and staged a sit-in outside the district council here on Friday against construction of a wall around the sessions court.
The protesters, including women and children, demanded demolition of the wall which they said had been constructed illegally.
They said the wall had been raised so close to main gates of several houses that inhabitants faced difficulties to enter their houses.
District Naib Nazim Iqbal Dawood Pakwala met the protesters and assured them that measures would be taken to solve the matter.
The nazim later met the session judge and discussed the matter with him.
Meanwhile, the nazim in a representation to the prime minister, president, Sindh chief minister, governor, chief justice of the Supreme Court and the chief justice of the Sindh High Court said Sukkur sessions judge Aftab Ahmad had illegally constructed the boundary wall of the court. He said the judge had not taken permission from the district government and the Sukkur taluka municipal administration.
He demanded that the authorities should direct demolition of the wall.
SCCI: The president of the Sukkur Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Khalid Mehmood Khan, has demanded that cotton seed and its oil be exempted from the sales tax.
In a statement on Wednesday, he pointed out that oil millers, would pay the GST at 15 per cent cotton seed purchase by them from ginning factories and on crushing it.
He said that they would have again to pay 15 per cent GST on its oil and its residue (oil dirt) and get refund of the difference of input.
He said that in the speech of finance minister and the relevant SRO issued by the Central Board of Revenue there was contradiction and confusion which created chaos and resentment.
He said that oil mills were being run on small and cotton industry basis mostly with self-employment.
"Levy of the sales tax at 15 per cent on its products will place them in very awkward and difficult position as they will not be able to keep and maintain cumbersome record for the sales tax", he said.
