Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: Khyber Chamber of Commerce and Industries president Sayed Jawad Hussain Kazmi and other office bearers on Saturday said that the government should bring an easement for traders and transporters to enhance import and export with Afghanistan and central Asian countries.
Sayed Jawad Kazmi flunked by traders and chamber of commerce and industries office bearers, said this while speaking to the “meet the press” program held at Landikotal press club. He said Torkham was not only being used for trade and passenger movement with Afghanistan but Pakistani goods were being transported to Europe and central Asian republics. He said forty percent of revenue was generated from trade-related taxes at the Torkham border He said exporters were facing enormous problems that had decreased the export of Pakistani goods via Torkham.
Kazmi said his team was in contact with concerned officials to provide facilities to traders and exporters.
He said the government should extend the tax exemption for up to ten years for tribal people merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He added that free and uninterrupted trade was running between Pakistan and India via different eastern borders but hard and fast conditions had imposed on trade activities taking place between Pakistan and Afghanistan. He said the rights and privileges enjoyed by traders and exporters in the rest of Pakistan also demand the same benefits. He said the pledges made at the time of the Fata merger could not fulfilled so far. He urged Pakistan and Afghanistan to quickly process the documents of trucks stranded for weeks on both sides of the border.
