Mr.PM..! Don’t punish the honest people in Pakistan…

Dear Mr. Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Sir,

The matter raised by Mr. Kalim A. Chishtie, in his below mentioned letter, published by the Daily Dawn of today, needs your personal intervention, as it adversely affects the senior citizens and widows etc.

If we compare the previous PPP rule with your one years performance, one thing is strikingly clear that PPP at least had a soft corner for the low income group, while your government seems completely oblivious of the problems, being faced by the middle class and the lower middle class citizens.

I will request you to just have a look at the utility bills of the above mentioned categories of people, to have an idea how the same has increased during your tenure, compared with the last PPP government.

Actually, your government having failed to recover the utility bills from the high and mighty people, who never pay their utility charges, has decided to punish the millions of honest bill payers, by increasing the rates of all the utility services, with a vengeance.

Now, this is a novel way of punishing the honest people, who never indulge in the theft of electricity, gas and water.

People still fondly remember that it was the last PPP government, which enhanced the upper limit of the EOBI pension to Rs. 3,600/PM.

Let me assure you that if the Rs.30,00,000/- or PKR 3 million upper limit is reasonably enhanced, your government can easily generate much more huge amount of funds, than you will get the revenue, from the tax collected on the Behbood profit payments. But, for this suggestion to be implemented, you will have to take a (firm) stand before the mighty bankers lobby, who will oppose this enhancement of limit, tooth and nail.

Submitted for your favourable consideration please.

Yours sincerely,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
Lahore.

Behbood scheme

By From the Dawn Newspaper
Updated about 2 hours ago

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IT is interesting to note that out of the blue the present government has come up with a novel idea of taxing the profits of the Behbood scheme. Does the government wish that senior citizens and widows who are meeting their expenses through profits derived from the scheme should face more difficulty in managing their daily expenditures in this age of inflation?

Kalim A. Chishtie
Karachi

Published in Dawn, June 18th, 2014

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