ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has announced to protest countrywide against rising prices and inflation from 20th February.
Addressing outside the National Press Club, the JI chief said that his party would protest against the rise in prices of essential items.
JI chief further said that the incumbent government was accusing previous governments of ruining the country’s economy but now because of the government, the country has come under the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s power.
He added that the government claimed to end inflation but practically it did nothing to curb it. People sitting on the left and right side of Prime Minister Imran Khan created a fake shortage of wheat in the country, he added.
The prices of wheat and sugar have skyrocketed in Punjab and a kilogramme of wheat now costs Rs46 and sugar prices have increased by Rs1.5 per kg.
The price of a 100kg bag of wheat has increased by Rs300 in the open market. In the wholesale market, a bag of wheat now costs Rs4,600.
On the other hand, the price of a 100kg bag of sugar has increased by Rs150 in the open market and the wholesale price of the commodity has increased from Rs66 to Rs67.5 per kg.
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