Leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had rejected the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority’s (Ogra) summary to raise petroleum prices because the government did not want to pass on the cost of the rise in gas and oil prices.
“The past government made bad decisions in order to get more votes.” “It also tried to be vague about the price of petroleum,” Abbasi said at a news conference in this city.
He claimed that the Ogra wanted to raise the price of high-speed diesel by Rs51, making it Rs196 per litre.it was suggested to raise the price of petrol from Rs150 to Rs171 per litre,
He told them it was not possible to pass the burden on to the people during the holy month of Ramadan. So the prime minister decided to solve the problem after a full review.
People had been told that the prices had been set at the current petroleum levy (which stands at zero percent) and the GST (also at 0 percent ). But if taxes are added, the price of high speed diesel will have risen by Rs 120 per litre to Rs 265 per litre. It would also have gone up to more than Rs 231, he said.
he said that Imran Khan’s own decisions had put the country in trouble. This is what he said. “Petroleum prices are rising all over the world, but this has also happened in the past. Because the Pakistani rupee has lost value, the price of petrol and diesel has gone up.
In Shahid Khaqan’s words, the country’s economy was hurt by the previous government’s bad policies, and the IMF agreements that were signed will be shown to the public.
