Karachi: A complete shutter down strike is being conducted today by traders and Jamaat-e-Islami against expensive electricity and taxes.
According to the details, today there is a complete shutdown strike across the country against taxes, electricity, and gas bills, all major business organizations are involved in the shutdown strike.
All small and big business centers from Karachi to Khyber are closed, and Qisa Khwani, Ashraf Road, Sadr Bazar Markets, and Sadr Food Street Chowk Fawara shops are closed.
In Rawalpindi, the Nanbai Association has also announced the closure of the oven and a protest outside the Press Club at 2 o’clock on the day.
There is also a shutter strike in Taxila, Gujjar Khan, Murree, Kahota, and Kalrasydan, grain market, fruit vegetable market, hotels, and markets are also closed in Wahari while all business centers, shopping centers and markets in Okara are also closed.
President of All Pakistan Anjuman Tajran Ajmal Baloch has said that there will be a complete shutterdown strike across the country today, negotiations are not going on with the government, negotiations will take place after the strike.
He warned that they would announce a strike for the next 2 days if the cruel tax is not withdrawn. There has been a 70% reduction in sales.
Central President Anjuman Tajran Kashif Chaudhry said that today there will be a complete shutterdown strike from Khyber to Karachi, every shopkeeper who wants to open shutters in the future will close their shutters.
Traders said that traders are on the same page, they want to reduce the price of electricity, and traders and industry have come together.
On the other hand, Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman said that the government people say that the protest will stop the business, you have already stopped the business, you have stopped the wheel of the economy. Not Wally.
It should be remembered that the two major trading organizations of the country had refused to negotiate with FBR. Sources said that despite the invitation of the chairman of FBR, the traders did not come to the negotiations. After which the FBR is likely to amend the income tax table for traders.
