Fighting ‘mafia’: LPG prices likely to be regulated

ISLAMABAD: A policy is being finalised to regulate  (LPG) prices and curb monopoly of the ‘mafia’ multiplying miseries of the consumers especially during winter. The mafia creates artificial shortage to mint money by increasing prices of the commodity on its own, which prompted the authorities concerned to control the profiteers and facilitate the end-users through appropriate regulations. “Hopefully, the LPG prices will be regulated in the coming two months as the proposed LPG regulation policy is in its final phase after the nod of Council of Common Interests (CCI),” official sources in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources told APP. Chairman LPG Distributors Association Irfan Khokhar thanked the government for making sincere efforts to get rid of the ‘mafia’ looting consumers.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 8^th, 2016.

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