MULTAN, April 23: President Gen Pervez Musharraf should hold talks with traders to resolve their problems.

This was stated by Pakistan Traders’s Alliance chairman Khwaja Shafiq Ahmad while talking to newsmen here on Tuesday.

He said that industrialists were not the true representatives of traders. “Industrialists and traders face different problems and the former always exploit the latter for their vested interests.”

He said that the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry chairman has not allowed the traders to raise their problems at a convention to be addressed by President Gen Pervez Musharraf on April 24. Traders have decided not to attend the convention.

He demanded that a separate chamber of small traders should be established.

He said that as imposition of general sales tax on small traders was practicable, all taxes should be revised in accordances with the financial condition of traders.

The income tax self assessment system should be restored. Computer balloting ratio of income tax returns should be reduced from 20 to 5 per cent..—Nouman