The CNG cartel, with the help of our bureaucracy, has been fleecing the public for years.
FATEH JANG: The Supreme Court has once again posed serious questions about the way the present government is operating when it ordered Ogra to slash CNG prices by about one-third of its previous rate. This has provided huge relief to the public and the middle class appreciates the fact that at least there is one institution left in this country which cares about the people. In any country other than Pakistan, I am sure the elected government would have stepped down and admitted its failure to run the state.
The government should seriously think about ways to provide relief to the public as everyone knows that the CNG cartel, with the help of our bureaucracy, has been fleecing the public for years. The least it could do is to fix the price of CNG at Rs30 for the next six months and ask the CNG owners to bear the losses as they have been making millions at the cost of the poor of this country for the past many years.
I am hopeful that the Supreme Court would also intervene and look into ways how other cartels in the country have been fleecing the public.
Abdul Rauf
Published in The Express Tribune, October 30th, 2012.
