Tuesday, June 30th: According to the report of Baaghi TV, the hearing of the case related to petrol crisis in the Lahore High Court was adjourned till July 9. The court also ordered to form a committee comprising of Members of Parliment on the shortage of petrol.
During the hearing, the court summoned OGRA chairperson Rostrum. The Chief Justice inquired as to how long you have been in this post. “I’ve been here since 2016,” said Chairperson OGRA. The court sought a report from OGRA.
Chief Justice Qasim Khan said that what will be done to deal with such crisis in the future. Enter all your answers. Then we will see you next Thursday. This is a huge crisis. Let me know by consulting the speaker. Whether a committee can be formed which has equal number of opposition and government parliamentarians. That committee should submit its report to the parliament.
Lahore High Court Chief Justice Qasim Khan remarked that the court should be guided as to whether another committee could be formed if Parliament had difficulty. The first priority would be for Parliament to make its report. The committee should prepare a report on the issue of crisis, storage and rising prices. The second solution may be to appoint a commission under the CPC. There is a lot of investigation to be done. This is a very sensitive issue.
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It should be noted that the PTI government dropped a petrol bomb on the people and for the first time in the history of Pakistan increased the lump sum prices by Rs 25. The people, including the opposition, are protesting against the increase in petrol prices, but the PTI is cleaning up that the prices were increased after the increase in oil prices in the world market.
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, the poor people kept pushing for petrol. The petrol pump owners had closed the sale of petrol. Cheap petrol did not benefit the people, now the government has come under pressure from the petrol mafia to raise its own prices, 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 has closed down businesses, millions of people have lost their jobs. The people are not ready to accept 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. For these reasons, the price of petrol should have been increased by Rs 31.58 paise while the price of diesel should have been increased by Rs 24.31 paise, but the government increased the price of petrol by Rs 25.58 paise and the price of diesel by Rs 21.31 paise.
The government has 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.
Due to the reduction in the consumption of oil in the world market due to the coronavirus, 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 coronavirus.
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