Daily Times

DIR: President All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA) Upper Dir Nusrat Ghafoor has said Malakand Division is a tax-free zone due to which deduction of the income tax from salaries of the government employees of the Malakand was unlawful.

“This taxation should end immediately”, he said while talking to media in his office.

He said that it was unfair and unjust act that the government had given exemption to industrialists, traders, transporters, contractors and other sectors in the income tax in Malakand division. However, the government was making deduction of income tax from the monthly salaries from government employees in the division, he added.

“Deduction of income tax from salaries is a clear discrimination and extreme brutal act with these employees working in the Malakand division,” Nusrat Ghafoor said.

The government of Pakistan has signed an accord at the time of merging the states of Dir and Swat into it due to which the Malakand division was declared a tax- free zone.

He said that employees were badly suffering by the government’s double standard and discriminative attitude with them, adding that an uncertainty also creating among those employees.

The APCA president said that the law is equal for everyone and every citizen should also treat according to law.

Ghafoor said that the APCA could not bear further brutality with those government employees. He said that government was irritating government employees instead of giving them relief, adding that the government should stop irritation of employees and give reward to them for being serving the people.

He said that how long those employees would bear discriminative attitude of the government that it had adopted with them. He demanded of the government to stop immediately deduction of income tax from the government employees of the Malakand division. Otherwise all government employees of the Malakand division would go on strike and protest against the brutal decision if government had not end deduction of the income tax in a month.