The bosses of opposition parties on Wednesday rejected the recent hike in prices of petroleum and solicited products people in general to teach Prime Minister Imran Khan a lesson in next surveys.
Tuesday the government had notified an unprecedented increase in prices of all petroleum products of up to Rs10 to Rs12 per liter for the next fortnight at the end on February 28 “a pass on the impact of higher international oil prices “and application of additional oil tax, as pledged in the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Pakistani People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, rejecting the increase in prices of petroleum products, said that after inflation, unemployment, poverty, increase in dollar and corruption, Prime Minister Imran Khan has reached record levels in rising oil prices.
In a statement, the chairman of the PPP said that the increase in prices of petroleum products is a robbery on the pockets of the people and Pakistan will not accept it. He further claimed that Imran Khan stepped up the bombing of inflation on the people.
Bilawal said CNG stations have already been closed for three months, and now a raise in oil prices will further increase inflation and food prices.
He said the increase in oil prices from the selected government and how big like a mountain, but there is never even a slight decrease in prices.
He said when the prices in the world market go upil price of oil in Pakistan goes high when prices go up down in the worldessi remain the same in Pakistan.
Separately, Bilawal also he asked for the restoration of student labor unions in across the country after Sindh passed a bill to restore the bodies. “A new leadership will emerge through this nursery […] as student the trade unions played a fundamental role in put an end to the dictatorship. The role of students in the struggle against (dictator) Zia-ul-Haq was historic, ”he said, addressing an event in the provincial capital.
He said hatred and extremism are on the rise in society and this is due to the absence of student unions – which were banned during former mandate of dictator Gen Zia, nearly four decades back.
PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif hit out at the PTI-driven government saying “it’s ripping people off right live”.
He urged the masses to “give Prime Minister Imran Khan an adequate lesson in the next general elections “.
Sirajul Haq, the Jamaat-i-Islami said his party “not remain silent on this brutality ”, adding that the excursion is another example of the government the “brutality” of the man who threatened a protest march towards Islamabad.
PML-N’s Ishaq Dar noted the rate the excursion is inaccessible for the public saying it is the result of a “dictated devaluation in Pakistani rupee “.
Nafisa Shah from PPP was questioned how people they would make ends meet after the steep hike.
Another PPP leader Naz Baloch, a former PTI member, said the price the surge would directly result in a new tall in inflation.
