{"id":4272,"date":"2021-11-25T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T10:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2021-11-25T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T10:29:39","slug":"govt-to-hike-gas-tariff-by-400-per-cent-on-new-years-eve-warns-shehbaz-sharif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-to-hike-gas-tariff-by-400-per-cent-on-new-years-eve-warns-shehbaz-sharif\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to hike gas tariff by 400 per cent on New Year\u2019s eve, warns Shehbaz Sharif"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: President of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Shehbaz Sharif has warned that the PTI government is all set to increase the gas tariff by a whopping 400 per cent on New Year\u2019s eve.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers will have to pay an additional Rs1,000 from January 2020 as the government has planned to drop a gas bomb on the masses, said the PML-N leader.<\/p>\n<p>Lashing out at the PTI-led government over its \u201cincompetency, inflation and corruption\u201d, Shehbaz said that after gas, a sugar crisis is again looming in the country. Talking about the price of sugar, the PML-N leader said that the commodity was available for Rs52 per kilogramme in PML-N&#8217;s tenure and is now being sold for Rs130 to Rs150 per kg.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the long queues at petrol pumps across the country amid a strike by petroleum dealers, Shehbaz Sharif said, \u201cPeople are standing in long queues and recalling the old Pakistan and Nawaz Sharif.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInflation, long queues, U-turns and lies have become the identification marks of [the] new Pakistan,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The poor are dying of starvation due to the policies of the prevailing government, the PML-N leader said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/people-facing-inconvenience-as-most-petrol-pumps-remain-closed-across-country.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People facing inconvenience as most petrol pumps remain closed across country \u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: President of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Shehbaz Sharif has warned that the PTI government is all set to increase the gas tariff by a whopping 400 per cent on New Year\u2019s eve. Consumers will have to pay an additional Rs1,000 from January 2020 as the government has planned to drop a gas bomb on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[1881,2854,1677,1792,367],"class_list":["post-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-inflation","tag-people-facing-inconvenience-as-most-petrol-pumps-remain-closed-across-country","tag-president-of-pakistan-muslim-league-nawaz","tag-pti-led-government","tag-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}