LAHORE: The sale of sub-standard Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders is on rise in the provincial capital, ignoring the fact that thousands of lives have been lost owing to such cylinders during the last few years, Pakistan Today has observed. On the other hand, thousands of LPG sellers are busy in illegal decanting of LPG in sub-standard cylinders under the nose of the authorities. Abdul Hameed is selling the gas cylinders for more than 10 years. He informed that around 200,000 shops in Punjab were involved in LPG decanting and among them around 5,000 were present only in Lahore. Khokhar admitted that most of the shopkeepers involved in decanting LPG ignore the safety measures which lead to the incidents.

Source: Pakistan Today January 08, 2018 15:33 UTC