Here’s some cake

Since the recent price hike, it is increasingly becoming very difficult for a regular person to make ends meet. People have been vocal about their woes but there is no lack of tone-deaf responses. One such ridiculous statement came from the speaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly who, while addressing an audience, said that people could eat one roti a day so that they’d be left with two rotis for the next day.

In a response to a question related to inflation and poverty, he said, “If a person who eats two rotis in a day, brings the number to one then the next day he can afford to eat two to three rotis”. I dare to ask him: what about those who even cannot afford to have one roti? It is very difficult to comprehend the logic behind his statement. Prime Minister Imran Khan should censure such ministers, and ask them to try and not make such irrational statements which only add fuel to the fire of public woes.

Zahid Ali Zohri

Gilgit-Baltistan