PAT Punjab decries hike in prices of vegetables & fruits

Basharat Jaspal, Mian Sajid Pervez, and Fayyaz Warriach, the leaders of PAT Punjab, have expressed their grave concern on fresh wave of price hike. In their joint statement, they said that a hike of up to Rs. 50 in the prices of vegetables and fruits will further burden the people and make their lives miserable. They said that the profiteers and hoarders have been given free hand to fleece the masses, adding that all claims of controlling price hike have failed miserably. He said that the masses are being led up the garden path in the name of fines and fake actions whereas the graph of dearness has steadily been going up.

The PAT leaders said that the prices of POL products decreased in the global market while the government has increased them here. They said that the quality of vegetables and fruits is very low in Sunday bazaars.

PAT Punjab president Bashrat Aziz Jaspal, while speaking on the occasion, said that the twenty teams consisting of PAT workers carried out a survey of prices of eatables throughout the provinces and it came to surface that the prices of orange, strawberry, and apples registered increase in the margin of 40 to 50 rupees in a span of one week. He said that publicity of the Punjab government far outstrips the relief in concrete terms. He said that the prices of chicken meat have increased by Rs. 20 which is not justified, adding that the whole of Pakistan knows as to where from the prices of eggs and chicken are controlled.

The PAT leaders demanded of the government to stop the artificial price hike and withdraw its support from the hoarders and black marketers.