Karachiites pay taxes like they pay charity - generously: CM
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Sunday that it is wrong to assume that the people of Karachi are reluctant to pay taxes. The CM expressed these remarks while addressing a programme of the United Memon Jamaat held at a hotel. His remarks come a day after traders associated with different markets of the city, like their counterparts elsewhere in the country, observed a strike against the revised tax regime of the federal government as part of the new federal budget. Shah said that some people say the people of Karachi are generous in giving zakat and charity but reluctant to pay taxes, adding that this is wrong. “It is Karachi’s traders and businessmen who are...