KARACHI: Pakistan Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Senior Vice President of Karachi Division and Adviser to the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Mahmood Moulvi has urged the Sindh government to control rising prices of essential commodities and feared that the inflation will add to the woes of the poverty-hit people in the province.
While talking to a delegation of political leaders in his office today, Mahmood Moulvi said prices of consumer items went high due to Sindh government criminal negligence, adding that poor and low-income people bore the burden.
He further said that the provincial government was not taking any practical steps to resolve people’s issues while the PPP ministers, leaders and government spokespersons were lying and giving counterfeit consolation to the people.
Mahmood Moulvi said that due to the incompetence and mismanagement of the Sindh government, the people of Karachi have been deprived of even two meals a day.
“The price of chicken is skyrocketing, the rise in milk and meat prices has broken the backs of the people, the adviser said. The sudden rise in prices is causing great pain to the people,” he regretted.
The PTI leader said, “Vegetables are available in the market at very low prices but it is worrisome to sell them at many times higher prices in the metropolis. The price of chicken is also being artificially increased. Rising inflation in Karachi ahead of Ramadan is a question mark for the Sindh government,” he added.
Commissioner Karachi should take notice of the increase in the prices of food items in the city and take immediate and effective action against the hikers and bring the prices of milk and meat in line with the rate list issued by the government, Mahmood Moulvi demanded.
He said that the federal government was working for the economic betterment of the country and also for the elimination of inflation and unemployment. However, due to the negligence of the Sindh government, the people of Karachi were facing severe difficulties.
The Karachi administration to take steps on the implementation of the government price list and provide relief to the people by taking action against those responsible for artificial inflation, the PTI leader urged.
