ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry observed that only parliament could impose taxes as doing so did not come within the ambit of the government. He maintained that the apex court would not allow anyone to create problems for the common man.

The chief justice made these remarks while heading a three-member bench on Wednesday which took up a suo moto case pertaining to the one percent hike in the General Sales Tax (GST).

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