JI moves PHC, seeks decrease in fuel prices

PESHAWAR: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Friday moved the Peshawar High Court (PHC), seeking decrease in the prices of petroleum products in the country after record reduction in the international market.

Advocate Ghulam Mohiyuddin Malik and Khan Afzal filed the writ petition on behalf of the JI Khyber Pakhtunkhwa head Mushtaq Ahmad Khan. It was stated in the petition that the prices of the petroleum products are being decreased in the international market day by day, but in Pakistan the prices were not decreased.

As per the prices of the international market, the petitioner claimed, the prices of petrol should be less than Rs40 per litter. However, he said the rulers were looting the people by charging them Rs76 per litre. 

Talking to reporters after instituting the petition in the high court, Mushtaq Ahmad Khan said the JI would also soon start a movement to unearth the mega corruption scandal in the petroleum products. He said the movement would be started from Karak district today.

He said people were also faced with increasing prices of medicines and his party would also file a writ petition in this respect.  He said the government seems helpless before the pharmaceutical companies.