News Paper: Business Recorder
PESHAWAR (July 21 2010): Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Truck & Trailer Association and Public Transport Legal Action Committee, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had rejected Pak-Afghan Transit Trade Agreement and one rupee per kilogram tax and fixation of the weight of 22-ton on the National Highway Authority (NHA) installed scales on the motorway.
Addressing a joint press conference, president, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Truck & Trailers Association, Haji Mohammad Jan and president, Public Transport Legal Action Committee, Haji Ihsanullah demanded stoppage of the illegal collection in the pretext of the police checking and shifting of the transit toll plaza from Ring Road, Hayatabad to the jurisdiction of the Jamrud, Khyber Agency.
They warned of not only moving the judiciary, but also observing hunger strike against these injustices of the government. The transporters' association alleged that in the pretext of the security checking police is collecting 'bhatha' from transporters in Charsadda, Shabqadar and Peshawar. They said that the responsibility of police is the search of the suspected vehicles and control smuggling. But, they are collecting bhattha in the name of checking.
They said that smugglers smuggle goods worth million of rupees from Afghanistan to Pakistan. But, on the other hand the government of Pakistan had levied one rupee per kilogram tax on the goods loaded in the trucks from July 1, 2010. The decision will result in the increasing of the prices of the essential food items.
They called for the abolition of the toll tax imposed since July 1 and collecting of the toll tax at the rate of the previous one. Similarly, the decision of the fixation of the weight of 22 ton at NHA's scales would be abolish to allow transportation of 40-ton weight in the trucks. With the present cut in the weight of goods, the goods of one vehicle would be loaded on two different trucks and the ultimate affectees would be general public. The office-bearers of both associations announced a 15-day deadline for the acceptance of their demands. Otherwise in case of the non-acceptance of their demands they would go for indefinite hunger strike
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Addressing a joint press conference, president, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Truck & Trailers Association, Haji Mohammad Jan and president, Public Transport Legal Action Committee, Haji Ihsanullah demanded stoppage of the illegal collection in the pretext of the police checking and shifting of the transit toll plaza from Ring Road, Hayatabad to the jurisdiction of the Jamrud, Khyber Agency.
They warned of not only moving the judiciary, but also observing hunger strike against these injustices of the government. The transporters' association alleged that in the pretext of the security checking police is collecting 'bhatha' from transporters in Charsadda, Shabqadar and Peshawar. They said that the responsibility of police is the search of the suspected vehicles and control smuggling. But, they are collecting bhattha in the name of checking.
They said that smugglers smuggle goods worth million of rupees from Afghanistan to Pakistan. But, on the other hand the government of Pakistan had levied one rupee per kilogram tax on the goods loaded in the trucks from July 1, 2010. The decision will result in the increasing of the prices of the essential food items.
They called for the abolition of the toll tax imposed since July 1 and collecting of the toll tax at the rate of the previous one. Similarly, the decision of the fixation of the weight of 22 ton at NHA's scales would be abolish to allow transportation of 40-ton weight in the trucks. With the present cut in the weight of goods, the goods of one vehicle would be loaded on two different trucks and the ultimate affectees would be general public. The office-bearers of both associations announced a 15-day deadline for the acceptance of their demands. Otherwise in case of the non-acceptance of their demands they would go for indefinite hunger strike
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