PPP to protest against hike in petrol price

Federal government has failed to give relief to masses, claims Nisar Khuhro

KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will hold a protest against the hike in petrol prices today (Sunday), announced the party's Sindh chapter president and Parliamentary Minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro on Saturday.

He said that workers and leaders of the party will protest and stage sit-ins in front of press clubs of every district headquarter and tehsil in the province.  "The federal government has failed to give relief to the masses," he said, adding that hour-long load-shedding had made their lives miserable.

"The government has dropped a bomb by enhancing the price of petroleum products," said Khuhro, adding that the price of petrol in the entire world was coming down yet the federal government enhanced it. "This shows that the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz [PML-N]-led government is incompetent," he remarked.



He said that during the election campaign in 2013, the Sharif brothers had promised to get rid of load-shedding within months, yet people in Sindh still suffer from 10 and 12 hour-long power breakdowns.

"I ask Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shehbaz Sharif not to fool people. Your days are numbered," he said. He claimed that the PPP leadership had rescued the PML-N government from Imran Khan's sit-in, but now no one would come to protect them.