Opposition parties decry hike in flour price, power tariff.

PESHAWAR -- Leaders of major opposition parties have expressed serious concern over the hike in wheat flour price and power tariff, and said there is no justification for Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leadership to remain in power any longer as its government has failed to bring the promised change in the people's life.

'Whenever consumers raise voice against price hike the ministers speak against politicians and corruption just to divert public attention from their weaknesses,' Pakistan Peoples Party provincial deputy information secretary Gohar Inqilabi said in a statement issued here on Saturday. He said it was duty of the PTI supporters to raise voice as the government had betrayed them in the name of 'change'.

Mr Inqilabi said since wheat flour was one of the basic essential food items the government should restore its supply from Punjab to bring down its price in the local market.

He said suspension of wheat flour to KP from Punjab was beyond imagination as PTI ruled both the provinces and the centre.

In his statement, Qaumi Watan Party provincial chief Sikandar Hayat Sherpao termed the recent increase in electricity tariff unjustified and said it would create more problems for people.

He said the government was following the dictates of the International Monetary Fund and did not care to mitigate the sufferings of the poor.

Commenting on the prevailing political scenario, he said the rulers were pushing the country to anarchy and...