Karachi: Present rulers have give nation nothing
but unprecedented price hike, inflation and
poverty, charged a report of Bilawal House Media
Cell of Pakistan Peoples Party issued here on
Tuesday. The report noted a horrific jump in
inflation during the era of present rulers.
It said the speed at which the prices of daily
use items had increased in Pakistan during last
one decade was unmatched in the world. It charged
that present rulers and their team of economic
managers drawn from different international
finance institutions were directly responsible
for the causes of such horrendous price-hike
and inflation in Pakistan. It seems that they
are sent here with a special task to make the
poor poorer and promote the economic interests
of a particular class, the report alleged. They
are presenting an impression all over the world
since last seven years that Pakistan is standing
on its feet economically and that the economy
is booming, the report said, but the real fact
is that people have been compelled by the regime
to commit suicide due to rampant inflation and
unemployment. “Everyday, one and a half
dozen Pakistanis put themselves to death just
for economic reasons.” The report said
everywhere in the world, the governments use
to provide subsidized utility items and services
to their people but in Pakistan the government
go for easy solution of raising indirect taxes
and increasing the utility service rates. “This
could be proved by the fact that a 6 to 10 hours
power load-shedding is being practiced in Karachi
since last 6 months but the KESC continues to
charging average and increased billing, which
is an open ‘state cheating’.”
It said due to the economic strains, now middle
class has also joined sufferings of poor and
downtrodden people and their children’s
possibility for a quality education has diminished.
It said education fee raise in Pakistan during
last seven years was recorded between 150 to
300 percent while the large universities fees
were sharply raised by 400 per cent. While the
prices of students books and academic equipment
registered 200 to 300 per cent rise.—Agency
