{"id":6147,"date":"2022-02-15T18:13:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T18:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=6147"},"modified":"2022-02-15T18:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T18:23:45","slug":"petrol-price-increases-in-pakistan-by-rs12-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/petrol-price-increases-in-pakistan-by-rs12-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price increases in Pakistan by Rs12.03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday dropped a major bombshell on the people by increasing the price of petrol by Rs12.03 per litre due to an increase in the prices of crude oil in the international market.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prices of petroleum products are showing drastic increase in the international market and presently are at the highest level since 2014. Despite the unabated increase since the beginning of the year, Prime Minister Imran Khan deferred the last review of petroleum products&#8217; prices on January 31, 2022 and advised against the summary of OGRA,\u201d said the finance division in the latest statement.<\/p>\n<p>The finance division stated that the government had also levied 0% sales tax and reduced the levy to provide \u201crelief\u201d to the consumers against budgeted.<\/p>\n<p>The finance division said that the \u201crelief\u201d had led the government to bear a revenue loss of around Rs 35 billion fortnightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the fortnightly review of Petroleum Products&#8217; prices, prime minister has considered the recommendation to increase the prices of petroleum products in line with change in the international oil prices. Despite increase in the prices of petroleum products, Petroleum levy and sales tax have been kept to the minimum,\u201d said the notification.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/in-a-first-pm-imran-khan-launches-fast-digital-transactions-system-raast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a first, PM Imran Khan launches fast digital transactions system Raast<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday dropped a major bombshell on the people by increasing the price of petrol by Rs12.03 per litre due to an increase in the prices of crude oil in the international market. \u201cThe prices of petroleum products are showing drastic increase in the international market and presently are at the highest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147","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=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}