Uniform commercial, industrial gas tariff demanded.

LAHORE -- Progressive Group, a representative platform of traders and industrialists, has urged the federal government to introduce uniform tariff of natural gas for commercial and industrial consumers throughout the country.

It claimed that the Punjab is being charged higher from the commercial and industrial consumers as compared to other provinces of the country, which is injustice and against the principal of providing level playing field to the businesses in the state.

Progressive Group's President Usman Khalid and Executive Member Chaudhry Muhammad Arshad, in a joint appeal to the government here on Friday, said that after the passage of 18th amendment gas is being provided to the Punjab province on three times higher rates as...