Imran should apologise to people or step down: Bilawal.

KARACHI: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Monday came down hard on Prime Minister Imran Khan over his government's response to Covid-19 pandemic.

Speaking in National Assembly, the PPP chief said the prime minister now has two options: either apologise to public as well as assembly for what he claimed destroying the national economy and endangering people's lives or step down and let someone 'qualified' take charge. He lamented that the government dropped a petrol bomb on people even before the passage of the fiscal budget for the next year. He asked how can a minister issue a notification which the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) is supposed to do.

The PPP chief said the benefit of the recent fuel price hike went to oil companies, asking how ministers will visit their constituencies and face their constituents following the increase in petroleum prices. "We will challenge this increase in prices of petroleum products at every forum as the people have been robbed of their hard-earned money just to benefit oil firms," he said. "The prime minister took notice of a 200 per cent increase in drug prices but now prices of medicines have gone up by 500 per cent but no notice has been taken," he...