Imran Khan rejects shameful POL price hike

Chairman PTI, Imran Khan, has rejected the government’s POL price hike as a shameful action targeting the poor masses.

The government on Saturday raised the prices of petroleum products by up to Rs4.71 per litre.  

The government also increased the price of high speed diesel (HSD) by Rs2.5 per litre in diesel that will badly affect the people and will cause increase of all essential items.

The people and the political parties have rejected the latest hike. However the leaders are only issuing statements and are not mounting pressure on the govt to stop it from making the life of the people miserable. 

Imran Khan stated: “repeated price hikes continue to burden the ordinary citizens while most of the rich continue to evade their responsibility of paying their taxes.

The government has failed, or deliberately chosen not to, widen the direct tax net; and instead has chosen to target the salaried and poor of the Land by placing a spiralling burden of indirect taxes on them.”

 Imran Khan said PTI would be devising a strategy to protest such anti-people price hikes both in Parliament and outside.

“It was unacceptable to have the poor bear the burden of the state expenses while the rich are kept outside the tax ambit,” Khan concluded.

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