Contractors do not accept rules of coercion: Food Department AJK

Muzaffarabad, (Liaqat Bashir Farooqui) : We do not accept the rules of oppression, the contractors do not accept the rules of coercion, the atmosphere of the capital echoed with the loud slogans of the contractors of the Food Department of Azad Kashmir. Exemption from GST, increase in petroleum products, bill for other arrears without payment of GST deduction and no wheat/flour milling will be done or allowed to be done till notification of GST abolition, contractors. According to the details, yesterday, the registered contractors of Azad Kashmir Food Department, including Syed Biand Ali Kazmi, Joint Neelam Goods, Sardar Tariq Abbasi, Muhammad Siddique Awan, Javed Iqbal Mughal, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, Khawaja Farooq.Syed Nazir Hussain Shah, Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmad, Iftikhar Ahmed Loan, Ahsan Traders, Saeed Zafar, Umeer Maqbool, Maqbool Ahmed, Khurshid Butt, Sheikh Tahir Latif, Nasrullah Khan, Naveed Abbasi, Raja Dalil Khan & Co, Naeed Mughal, Haroon. Mughal, Khurshid Butt, Abdul Aziz and others while talking to the media after the peaceful protest said that food department can no longer remain silent on the cruel taxes and mistreatment of the registered contractors of Azad Kashmir by the finance department. Presenting a joint three-point agenda, announcing the suspension of wheat/flour milling until its approval, he said that we only collect flour from the Food Department of Azad Kashmir and deliver it to the depots of the Food Department of Azad Kashmir. So there are no buyers and no sellers,While general sales tax can be levied only on the buyer or the seller, we provide convenience to the people by fulfilling the duty of delivering the food from the food department to its depots, he added that this cruel act of the finance department. The Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan was also informed about the move, on which the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir issued clear orders to abolish GST, but the Finance Department also rejected the orders of the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir. Instead of doing away with GST, we also stop our arrearsApart from this, more taxes have been applied, which is a cruel act. He said that Ramadan is coming. We don’t want the people of the state to be in a hurry for government flour, but the stubbornness of the finance department is causing a flour crisis in the state which the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir and other leaders should take immediate notice and play a role to fulfill our demands and three-point agenda and to implement it, otherwise this protest will start as a movement across the state. will be done, all the responsibility of which will be on the concerned authorities.