GUJRANWALA, Feb 10: The contract of collecting sacrificial animal tax from buyers in Ghakkhar town was cancelled on Monday by District Nazim Fiaz Ahmad Chattha.

The contract was awarded by Wazirabad Tehsil Nazim Shaukat Manzoor a few days ago without auctioning it in an open bid.

Markazi Anjuman Tajran Ghakkhar president Asif Rashid and Citizen Council president Zahid Butt had threatened that shopkeepers would go on a shutter-down strike if the contract was not cancelled. But the tehsil Nazim did not cancel it and instead humiliated the buyers, including a journalist, for lodging a protest.

Later, the people led by Markazi Anjuman Tajran and Citizen Council presidents uprooted the camp of the contractor and refused to pay the tax on the purchase of sacrificial animals.

On receiving information, MPA Mian Mazher Javed reached Ghakkhar town and after meeting public representatives asked district Nazim Fiaz Ahmed Chattha to cancel the contract.

NO COMPROMISE: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal will not compromise with the government on the issues of national security council, legal frame work order and the president in uniform.

This was categorically stated by MMA leaders Qazi Hussain Ahmad and Allama Sajid Naqvi while speaking at a public meeting on Monday in Alipur Chattha.

They said after coming into power the MMA would implement Islamic laws following recommendations of the Islamic Ideology Council.

The government, they blamed, was toeing the line of the US which was inimical to the sovereignty of nation. Criticizing the US for its planning to attack on Iraq, they urged the world powers to press the US to avoid a war.

MMA’s district president Hafiz Hamid Akhtar and Jamaat-i-Islami district Amir Allama Madni also spoke on the occasion.