PTI govt termed 'facilitator of mafias, na-maloom afrad'.

HYDERABAD -- Pakistan Peoples Party information secretary Senator Maula Bux Chandio on Wednesday accused the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government of being 'facilitator of na-maloom afrad [a term used for criminals who are never identified] and known mafias, and said that it now stood exposed.

'Those ruling over the country are staging dramas while people are groaning under price hike,' he observed in a statement.

He said prices of flour, fuel and electricity had increased to the extent that people were unable to bear the financial burden.

'[Prime Minister] Imran Khan's [government] has deprived people of bread in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Mafias are looting people and the national exchequer with both hands and his government is facilitating their activities,' he alleged.

Senator Chandio pointed out that power consumers in Sindh were facing unannounced and prolonged loadshedding, and claimed that the [PTI] government was presenting wrong figures, as it was doing on the issues of locust and Covid-19.

He said that it...