KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Tuesday unanimously adopted an opposition resolution demanding that the Centre abolish petroleum levy tax.
As Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) is staging sit-ins across the country against rising prices of petroleum products, its lone lawmaker in the house, Muhammad Farooq, moved the resolution demanding the abolition of the petroleum levy tax.
Responding to the resolution, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziaul Hasan Lanjar said that the matter pertained to the federal government and the provincial government could not abolish the tax.
Later, the speaker put the resolution for vote and the house unanimously adopted it, urging the federal government to end the levy tax.
House unanimously adopts JI lawmaker’s resolution against rising fuel prices; MQM-P stages noisy protest against ‘Sindhudesh’
