Three rallies were taken out in various southern Punjab cities to condemn the recent increase in petroleum prices.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) organised a rally in Multan led by Senator Malik Rafiq Rajwana, MNA Sheikh Tariq Rasheed and Punjab Minister for Housing and Auqaf Haji Ehsan-uddin Qureshi.
Protestors shouted slogans against the government and burnt tyres. Addressing the rally, PML-N leaders said the increase in petroleum prices would further spur inflation.
Seperately, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) joined other political parties in organising a demonstration in Multan. They asked the government to take back the recent increase in petroleum prices and demanded that non-development expenditures be curbed. Speaking at the rally, PTI leader Makhdoom Javed Hashmi denounced the ‘anti-people’ decision to raise CNG and petroluem prices.
Seperately, the All-Pakistan Clerk Associations took out a rally in Bahawalpur against the increase in prices and unscheduled power outages from Health Office to Fareed Gate.
Leading a rally of around 1,000 staff, APCA Punjab General Seceratery Fakhrur Rehman Azhar criticised the federal and Punjab government for being unable to control the rising prices of essential commodoties and utilities.
Joined by APCA Health Department Chairman Malik Muhammad Khalid and office bearers, the participants rejected the latest hike in price of petroluem products. They called the petroleum levy illegal for being imposed through an ordinance, not an act of parliament.
They said that ending the petroluem levy would reduce petroleum prices by Rs15 and diesel prices by Rs9. PPI
Published in The Express Tribune, April 4th, 2012.
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