The PTI government has decimated the purchasing power of the masses: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari - Press Release issued by Pakistan People's Party.

Karachi -- May 17, 2021 (PPI-OT)

Following is the text of press release issued by Pakistan People's Party (PPP)

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The Chairman Pakistan people's Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, slammed the PTI-led federal government over unprecedented inflation of essential goods, saying that the selected Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi had failed to provide any relief to the masses even during the Eid period. In a statement, Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that just over the festive period of Eid, people had to contend with 30% inflation of clothes and shoe prices.

The PTI-led federal government, he said, had decimated the purchasing power of the masses. Championing a fraudulent slogan of change, the government had robbed people of even the few joys they could indulge in, he added. While the PM was busy violating his own governments' directives by visiting Nathia Gali during the Eid holidays, the country had been abandoned to suffer the myriad of miseries his government had unleashed on the populace.

An increase in meat prices of Rupees 200 per kilogram over the Eid period was a clear and candid sign of the selected PM's sheer and utter failure, lamented the Chairman PPP. "The selected PM continues to wreak havoc on the common man, with mafias given carte blanche to artificially and arbitrarily hike prices. The increase in price of poultry products by Rupees 600 a kilogram is an insult to those who believed in the selected PMs false and hollow promises of change."

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