Hike in petrol price injustice with people: opposition.

PESHAWAR -- The opposition parties have condemned hike in petrol price and described it sheer injustice with people during restrictions on movement in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic in the country.

Pakistan Peoples Party provincial president Humayun Khan, QWP chairman Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz provincial secretary information Ikhtiar Wali Khan in their separate statements here on Sunday alleged that all of a sudden increase in fuel prices proved government's inability to control hoarding and exploitation of consumers at the hands of 'mafia'.

Humayun Khan said that his party was seriously pondering over a plan to announce a protest campaign against the price hike in the country. He said that first the government allowed hoarding of petrol by decreasing its rates and then benefited the petrol mafia by increasing prices.

PPP mulls over plan to launch protest campaign

The PPP leader said that government did not decrease the prices of other commodities when the fuel rates were decreased, but they would rise with the recent hike in petrol prices and the ultimate sufferers would be people.

Similarly, Aftab Ahmad Sherpao while speaking at a gathering at his party provincial secretariat here criticised government for the 'unprecedented' hike in petrol price and said that Prime Minister Imran Khan bowed to pressure of oil mafia.

On the occasion, former tehsil council member Shaukat Ali Khan, Iqbal Hussain Balay and scores of people from Swat announced joining QWP.

Aftab Sherpao said that government was sharing wrong...