PPP's Dharejo slams Centre over price hike.

KARACHI -- Provincial Minister for Industries and Commerce and Anti-Corruption and Cooperative Department Jam Ikramullah Dharejo, while expressing concern over the news of increase in inflation and decrease in investment and exports, has said that the increase in petroleum products up to Rs20 was a matter of concern. The prices of essential commodities, including flour, ghee, pulses, eggs and meat, had skyrocketed, making the lives of the poor miserable, he said in statement here on Saturday. Dharejo further said that due to incompetence of 'selected rulers' and poor economic policies, inflation and poverty had skyrocketed and suicides had risen among the poor. He said that the people were suffering from psychological...

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