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HYDERABAD, Aug 27: Unemployed youths blocked the road leading to the Tangri British Oilfield for several hours in Tando Mohammad Khan area on Tuesday in protest against the oilfield management for not providing jobs to local people.
Speaking on the occasion, Tando Mohammad Khan Villagers’ Alliance chairman Abdul Waheed Nizamani, Abdul Sami Nizamani, Muzaffar Talpur and others said that not a single person from Tando Mohammad Khan and adjoining areas had been employed at the oilfield where workers from other provinces were being recruited.
They said 200 outsiders were working at the oilfield where 2,112,000 litres of crude oil valued at Rs20 million was extracted per day.
They warned that the villagers would launch a protest movement against the company if local people were not provided with jobs at the oilfield.
A heavy contingent of the police was deployed at the protest site to control any untoward incident.
Later, leaders of the villagers alliance and officials of the Tangri oilfield held negotiations and decided to hold talks at the office of the taluka Nazim on Aug 30 to resolve the issue.
TRADERS: The Anjuman Tajiran-i-Sindh has strongly protested against the income tax department for demanding a statement of accounts along with income tax returns.
In a joint statement issued here on Wednesday, the president of the organization, Zakir Bin Zahid, Abdul Aziz Sambhri, and Rasool Bux Shaikh said the majority of small traders were illiterate and they could not maintain accounts in writing.
They alleged that the Central Board of Revenue was harassing businessmen despite they paid taxes.
They said the organization had sent a communication to Federal Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz, reminding him that during the last fiscal year traders and industrialists had deposited 20 per cent more tax than the fixed target.
They demanded that the condition of filing a statement of accounts should be withdrawn.
He said the business community would launch a protest throughout the country if the CBR continued to formulate anti-traders policies.
Meanwhile, office-bearers of Muslim Cloth Merchant Union, Azeem-o-Shan Cloth Market, Mohammad Ashfaq Qureshi, Mohammad Ameen Suleman, Saleem Waqas and others, also rejected the mandatory provision of filing a statement of accounts.
In a letter addressed to the federal finance minister, they said their turnover had decreased by 75 per cent and they were not in a position to file such a statement.
They called for withdrawing the provision.
