PPP flays govt for POL price hike, cancer drug shortage.

LAHORE -- Criticising the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government for further increasing prices of petroleum products, the PPP fears it will lead to inflationary trend in prices of essential items adding to miseries of the masses.

Punjab chapter president Qamar Zaman Kaira and information secretary Hassan Murtaza said in a statement here on Wednesday that the masses were already overburdened by the price hike caused by 'wrong' policies and incompetence of the PTI government and with the advent of the new year the rulers increased oil prices which would consequently result in hike in rates of kitchen items.

They said the rulers seemed indifferent to the problems of the people and were not letting any chance to go without making them gloomy.

Mr Murtaza lamented that the government had also put a halt to provision of free medicines to cancer...