Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) organized a protest demonstration against the continuous
government's practice of hiking the prices of POL products in which hundreds of
protesters participated. PAT leader G.M. Malik led the protest demonstration, while
Afzal Gujjar, president of PAT Punjab, M.M. Shaheen, Secretary General of PAT Punjab,
Jawad Hamid, Hafiz Ghulam Farid, and other leaders of PAT also participated. The
protesters were carrying placards and posters inscribed with anti-government and
anti-hike slogans.
Addressing the protesters, PAT leader G.M. Malik said that the cursed anti-people
policies of the present political administration are pushing the people against
the wall, crushing them under the burden of unbearable inflation and dearness. He
said that the poor are being robbed of their right to life which is evident from
the recurring hike in prices of POL products every month. He demanded of the government
not only to withdraw the price hike but also decrease them to give hard-pressed
people much needed breathing space.
G.M. Malik said that a government which came into power in the name of the poor
is making life hell for their electorate. He blasted the government over its incessant
habit of increasing the prices of POL products every now and then. He said that
PAT fully rejected the recent reprehensible act of the government.
G.M. Malik said that the desperate act of increasing the prices of POL products
proved that the government did not possess any credible plan to deal with the economic
mess the country was caught up in. He said that the people would have to take to
the streets to send the present corrupt electoral system packing otherwise their
lives would continue to become more miserable.
