Pakistan Farmers Protest
Pakistani farmers to protest on Feb 14 against imposition of taxes on agriculture sector, costlier fertiliser
Multan, Pakistan: Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI) activists along with their children, livestock and poultry, will demonstrate against the imposition of taxes on the agriculture sector, costlier fertiliser and other farm inputs in Multan city on Feb 14.
The PKI is calling the protest ‘Speechless Animals and Helpless Farmers’, saying the protest will be later taken to other districts of the province before moving towards the federal capital, reports The Dawn.
“Farmers will be mourning on this day to save the future of their children, coming generations and the economy of their beloved motherland,” PKI President Khalid Mahmood Khokhar was quoted as saying in the newspaper.
He says farmers’ representatives held a series of meetings with the government authorities to protest 17 per cent general sales tax on farm produce, additional 3pc GST on seeds, high rates of electricity billing for tubewells, manifold increase in diesel and fertiliser prices in the wake of Supplementary Finance Bill 2021 but to no avail as they were told the steps were being taken on IMF directions.
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