PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party has rejected the imposition of Rs40 billion new taxes and asked the federal government to withdraw its decision and avoid fueling price hike in the country otherwise the PPP workers will start protest demonstrations against it.

`The mini-budget will lead to an unprecedented increase in the prices of the daily use items and poor people will be unable to feed their children,` said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa PPP president Khanzada Khan and general secretary Engineer Mohammad Humayun Khan in a joint statement here on Wednesday.

They said that PPP would not sit silent and hold protest demonstrations against the new taxes.

Mr Humayun said that the government was following the policies of IMF and World Bank, but it was unable to resolve the problems of the downtrodden people in the country.

He said that the people ofKhyber Pakhtunkhwa had already suffered due to the wave of terrorism and the irresponsible decisions of levying more taxes would burden them the most.

`If the mini-budget is not withdrawn it will be tantamount to economic murder of poor citizens as this decision will affect prices of most of the daily use items in the country,` he feared.

The PPP leaders said that prices of petroleum products were decreased globally, but here the prices were increased through imposition of sales tax. They urged the federal government to review its decision by keeping in view the problems of common people.

Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim Leauge-Quaid provincial president Intikhab Chamkani advocate also condemned the decision about new taxes and described it as an anti-people step of the PML-N-led federal government.

In a separate statement here on Wednesday, he said that the government itself was forcing the masses to come to the streets against it.