MULTAN City News

Qureshi hands over Opp ToRs to MHCBA president

From Our Correspondent

MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf senior leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday met MHCBA president Sheikh Jamshed Hayat in his office and handed over Imran Khan’s letter and copy of opposition ToRs to him.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi also visited the Multan District Bar Association and met its president Azeemul Haq Pirzada and gave him Imran Khan’s letter. Meanwhile, talking to journalists at the Multan High Court Bar Association, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi claimed that the lawyers’ joint session had demanded resignation from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the Panama Leaks issue till the findings of the Judicial Commission, which was also the opposition demand. He hoped that the lawyers would support the opposition parties after examining the ToRs for supremacy of the constitution and eliminating corruption. He said that the lawyers’ representatives Aitzaz Ahsan and Hamid Khan had finalised the ToRs. Commenting on the arrest of the Balochistan finance secretary in corruption case, he said that corruption had penetrated deeply in Balochistan. He also congratulated Sadiq Khan for electing the London Mayor.

FBR TO DEDUCT RS 50B FROM TEXTILE MILLS REFUNDS: The Federal Board of Revenue has decided to deduct Rs 50 billion from textile mills’ refunds collected from ginners but textile millers did not deposit in the national coffers.

Talking here on Saturday, FBR Inland Revenue member (Operations) Dr Muhammad Irshad said that the FBR would deduct Rs 50 billion from the refunds of textile millers.

He said that all notices served on ginners would be withdrawn and they would feel themselves relaxed. He assured that ginners’ refunds would be cleared immediately. He asked the chief commissioners of Multan, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad and Hyderabad to withdraw notices and directed to make a committee comprising of representatives of PCGA and tax-managers to resolve all issues. He asked the ginners to cooperate with the tax department for enhancing government revenue and contributing towards economic stability and prosperity of the country. PCGA chairman Shahzad Ali Khan apprised the member about the problems being faced by them. The FBR member issued directions to the chief commissioners and other senior officers to promptly address the ginners’ problems. He said that the FBR had formulated a strategy to go after the tax-evaders by using information obtained from their transactions in the real estate sector, purchase of vehicles and their abroad traveling.