DERA ISMAIL KHAN, April 6: Pakistan Chemists and Druggists Association, Dera Ismail Khan chapter, observed a hunger strike on Saturday against the levy of 15 per cent general sales tax (GST) on medicines.

A number of political, religious, social figures and traders, including Sanaullah Khan Miankhel, ex-provincial minister, Raja Akhtar, PML district president, traders leaders Shoaib Gangoi, Sohail Ahmad Azmi and others, visited the camp set up near the DHQ Hospital as a mark of solidarity with the PCDA.

Talking to journalists, the PCDA general secretary Dr Abdul Aziz Shahid said that all the medicines in Pakistan were much expensive as compared to Indian and Iranian medicines and the levy of 15 per cent GST on medicines was making the life of people miserable.

He said the PCDA and all other traders organizations would never tolerate the imposition of GST on medicines.