Shehbaz, Bilawal reject POL price hike as ‘bombardment of inflation’
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Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly (NA) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday that increase in petroleum products’ prices was an act of oppression on the part of the government which was not only ‘corrupt’ but also a ‘liar’, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
In a statement, he said there was no end in sight to the inflation as long as the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) was in office. “People will have to come out on streets to register their protest against this ‘cruel’ government,” Shehbaz said, and vowed that the PML-N would not relent unless it got the masses rid of the government which had unleashed inflation at them.
PML-N president said these were not only the POL prices, which had been skyrocketing for the last several months, but overall inflation and unemployment too had made the lives of people a ‘hell’. “This is not only petrol whose price has shot up; as a matter of fact these are the prices of items of essential use which have gone up,” he opined.
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“What else is to the credit of ‘selected’ Prime Minister Imran Khan and members of his cabinet except rising inflation,” he remarked.
Bilawal Bhutto
In a statement released on Wednesday, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Prime Minister Imran Khan after increasing inflation, unemployment, poverty, high rate of dollar and corruption had made a historic rise in the prices of petroleum products. He laid his hands on people’s pockets. He said Imran had intensified the ‘bombardment of inflation ’ in the last years of his tenure.
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Bilawal said that hike in POL prices would affect prices of all other items. He said “seeing the present circumstances, it seems that Imran will never return to Pakistan after the end of his government tenure like Moeen Qureshi.”
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