LPG Distributor Association chief wants import from Iran banned

LPG Distributors Association Chairman Irfan Khokhar claimed that after mixing the imported LPG with carbon dioxide, it poses a cylinder blast risk.

He demanded the government and the administration to impose immediate ban on the import of the ‘poisonous gas’.

He said that the people who are selling toxic LPG gas mixed with CO2 are profiteering from the cheap gas imported for Rs15 per kg and selling it for Rs280.

Irfan Khokhar said that there are five refiners in Iran which, instead of disposing off the gas send it to Pakistan on fake goods declaration.

If the import of the gas is not banned, there is a threat of increase in cylinder blasts in winter season as the demand for LPG goes up to 150,000 tons.