Reacting to the price hike, PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif said that since the incumbent government came to power, it had brought the entire nation to “the ration card”. “The hike in prices of petroleum products is proof that the government does not care about the poor,” he wrote. PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal joined many others in denouncing the government over the recent hike in petrol prices, saying Prime Minister Imran Khan was “misleading the nation” on the matter. “The prime minister should have some mercy on the people and take back his decision to hike prices of petroleum products,” it added. “If an additional Rs30 petroleum levy was charged then the price of petrol would surge to Rs180 per litre.

Source: The Nation November 06, 2021 01:53 UTC