PESHAWAR: Contrary to the civil disobedience call of their party leader, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf legislators in the Khyber Pakthunkhwa Assembly paid income tax as no written submission was made to the Accountant General office against deductions from their monthly salaries.

Rs3000 were deducted from the August salary of each MPA as neither any minister nor legislator belonging to PTI had filed written application to the AG Office against deductions of the Income Tax, official sources confided.

Only those employees are exempted from IT whose salary was less than Rs500, 000 per year. Similarly all the MPAs of the KP Assembly getting Rs92800 monthly salary which is subjected to over Rs3000 income tax deduction.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2014