POL prices likely to go up after attacks on Saudi oil plants.

Islamabad -- Prices of petroleum products are likely to go up by up to Rs12 in coming days owing to an increase in international market following an attack on Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure last week, slashing the Arab kingdom's oil production by half.

The attack that shut five per cent of global crude output has triggered the biggest surge in oil prices since 1991.

Europe's benchmark Brent crude surged by 20 per cent and US counterpart WTI by 15 per cent as commodities trading got underway and after President Donald Trump warned that the US was 'locked and loaded' to respond to the attacks that Washington blamed on Iran.

Tehran has rejected the claim but Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is bogged down in a five-year war, claimed Saturday's strikes on two plants owned by state energy giant Aramco.

Trump says US 'locked and loaded' to respond to Saudi oil attack

Pakistan's energy supply is also at a risk due to mounted tensions with India over revocation of the autonomous status of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan faces a wide gap...