LAHORE: The traders` call for a strike on Aug 1 has begun attracting other segment s of society as the Majlis Waddatul Muslimeen has announced its support for the cause.

`We not only announce our support for the strike call but also instruct party activists to take part in it with enthusiasm,` MWM political secretary Nasir Sherazi said here on Tuesday.

He said the withholding tax on bank transactions was a manifestation of the PML-N`s `anti-traders` policies.

He alleged in a statement here that Finance Minister Ishaq Dar was taking the decisions on the dictation of the IMF as nowhere in the world such a tax was levied on bank transactions.