Price-hike at utility stores confession to historic inflation: Shehbaz

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) President and Opposition Leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has confessed to historic inflation by increasing the prices of essential items at the Utility Stores.

In a statement, issued here on Saturday, Shehbaz said why the government would increase the price of necessary items at stores under its own control if the country would have not been going through hyperinflation.

He said the government that had put Pakistanis through hell for the past three years could only deceive the people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir with their lies during the campaign.

He said the rule of tyranny could not be allowed to go on as the government had caused high inflation and unemployment. He said the PTI believed that the people of AJK were blind and could not see what was going under Imran Khan's rule in Pakistan.

The PMLN president said the PTI started with abusive language in their campaign in the AJK, then tried to use money and then resorted to firing bullets. He said the government had failed and the country could not be run like this; the torturous regime must end now.