Staff Reporter
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Parliamentary Leader in the Senate, Senator Sherry Rehman has criticized the federal government for increasing the prices of electricity and essential products in a time of high employment and extreme inflation.
She said, “The government has been up to nothing but dropping one inflation bomb after the other on the people. The country is already struggling to recover from the devastating impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and the heavy rainfalls, which destroyed the livelihoods of many”.
“The increase in price of electricity is yet another blow to the business industry, which is already suffering losses as a result of lockdowns during the Covid-19 outbreak and again due to the devastating rainfall in the city. It has caused losses of billions of rupees to the economy. Even the business community has expressed their reservations over this decision”, Senator Rehman added.
The PPP Parliamentary Leader in Senate said, “The country is already experiencing gas shortages and the federal government has now decided to increase prices of electricity and many essential products. Across the world, governments’ are working hard to provide relief to their people. In Pakistan however, the federal government is burdening the poor and vulnerable”.
