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FAISALABAD, Aug 21: The All-Pakistan Anjuman Tajiran and over two dozen other trade bodies of the city have threatened to set up hunger strike camps from Sept 11 if the government fails to simplify taxation policies.
At a meeting held here with Anjuman president Nawaz Vohra in the chair and attended by representatives of trade bodies, it was demanded that the government should withdraw all ill-conceived taxation policies.
The meeting announced that in case their tax returns were not accepted till Sept 10, they would hold protest demonstrations in all big cities.
It also demanded that the self-assessment scheme of the federal government should be implemented in its letter and spirit, and an action be taken against the tax officers involved in harassing the traders and industrialists.
The meeting alleged that a number of ill-conceived policies were being imposed on traders, shopkeepers, industrialists, importers and exporters just to please the international monitory institutions.
ELECTED: Eleven members of the Tehsil Municipal Administration (Saddar) have been elected unopposed as chairmen of the monitoring committees.
Jawed Iqbal has been elected as Standing Committee for Education chairman, Rana Mohammed Khan for justice, Arshad Gujjar for purchase, Allah Ditta Abid for auction, Dewan Husain for sports, Abdul Ghafoor for budget and finance, Abdul Razzaq for sports and culture, Robina Ansar for women welfare, Muhammad Yaqoob for works, Maqsood Ahmad for planning, Rana Saleem for farmers welfare.
BOY KILLED: A minor boy was killed after being sodomized allegedly by a vagabond in Farooqabad in the area of Sargodha Road police here on Wednesday night.
Hamza was playing in the street when Qasim Ali took him to a deserted house and sodomized him. As a result the boy became unconscious and died before any medical aid.
The area people overpowered the accused and handed him over to the police.
The victim was the only brother of five sisters.
