Provincial chief Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, Mushtaq Ahmad Khan has attributed the extension of Customs Act as drone attack on the people of Malakand Division and vowed to take the enforcement of the act into logical end.
Addressing a youth convention in Dir Lower, he said that they already resisted the Customs Act in past and will not go on back-foot this time too. Other who addressed were included Provincial Minister for Finance, Muzaffar Said advocate, MNA Sahibzada Mohammad Yaqub, MPA Saeed Gul, president, JI Youth KP, Hafiz Ibrar Akbar, Tehsil Nazim, Bakhtiar Khan, Sultanat Yar Khan and Malik Shahid.
The JI stalwart said that the extension of Customs Act to Malakand Division is sheer injustice with the people of the region as they had remained the victim of earthquakes, flood and other natural disasters for last two decades. Instead of the provision of relief, the levy of tax is injustice with them.
He said that the JI affiliated ministers, MPAs and MNAs had raised voice against the extension of Customs Act and they will not allow its imposition in any circumstances in the region. He said that corruption to the tone of Rs 14 billion is committed in the country on daily basis. He said that the rulers are busy in the looting of both national exchequer and general public.
Mushtaq Ahmad Khan said that with the levy of new taxes the people are being made slaves of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB), saying that after bringing the siphoned up money by the rulers, the country will become super power within a short period of five years.
He said that the Islamization of the Bank of Khyber will continue in any circumstances, saying that those selling national institutions also wanted to privatise the provincial bank, but they will not be allowed to accomplish their dreams.