According to Baaghi TV, opposition parties have protested in the National Assembly against the increase in prices of petroleum product.
PPP member, Qadir Patel while speaking in the Parliament House said that increase in prices of petrol products is cruelty. It was the FIA’s job to find the petrol stocks. The FIA says the gas tankers were backed, the FIA does not see the BRT plan but all of its focus is on opposition.
Qadir Patel further said that the government ignored the increase in salaries of government employees. Now the increase in petrol prices has made the poor more vulnerable.
The people are already starving. Housing societies are being formed in Islamabad. Who approves it? NAB-affected people are appointed to important posts. Where is the US help to get out of the gray list? The NAB has been turned into a political institution and is being used for revenge.
Qadir Patel further said that it was the job of the FIA to find out who were the people who collected cheap petrol. The FIA should find out who is behind the mafia. Who are their shareholders? Sohail Ayaz was handed over to the FIA after injecting Rs 7 billion on petrol. The investigation has not come to light till date. A minister ate one crore pakoras, the bill is still lying in Karachi Port Trust.
The PTI government dropped petrol bombs on the people and for the first time in the history of Pakistan increased the prices by a lump sum of Rs 25. The people, including the opposition, are protesting against the increase in petrol prices. PTI is making it clear that the increase in prices was due to the rise in oil prices in the world market.
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When Prime Minister Imran Khan was in opposition, he used to wail after the rise in oil prices and call it a robbery on the poor. Many of his statements and tweets in this regard are on record, but now he himself has a reason to do so. Before petrol became cheaper, the mafia created a shortage of petrol. This month, poor people have been pushing for petrol.
The petrol pump owners had closed the sale of petrol. Cheap petrol did not benefit the people. Now the government, under pressure from the petrol mafia, has increased prices itself, which has been rejected by opposition parties.
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The poor people of Pakistan are already worried because of the Corona lockdown. Corona shut down businesses, millions lost their jobs. Salaries have not been increased in the budget before. Now petrol bomb is a gift from the government to the people which the people are not ready to accept in any case but the government has made this gift helpless in front of the mafia.
Federal Minister for Energy Omar Ayub has said that the prices of petroleum products in Pakistan are still the lowest in the subcontinent. Last month, global crude oil prices rose sharply and the Pakistani rupee depreciated by three rupees.
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Due to these reasons, the price of petrol should have been increased by Rs 31.58 paisa while the price of diesel should have been increased by Rs 24.31 paisa, but the government increased the price of petrol by Rs 25.58 paisa and diesel by Rs 21.31 paisa.
The government raised the prices of petroleum products by a record. According to the notification issued by the Ministry of Finance, the price of petrol was increased by Rs 25.58 per liter, after which the price of petrol reached Rs 100.10 per liter.
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Due to the reduction in the consumption of oil in the world market due to the corona virus, the prices had reached the lowest level in history, after which the prices of petroleum products in Pakistan were also reduced. The government had reduced the total price of petroleum products by Rs 56.89 per liter during the lockdown due to the corona virus.
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