November
9, 2018
PRESS STATEMENT
SENATOR A. REHMAN MALIK CONDEMNED INDIAN AGGRESSION ACROSS LOC, EXPRESSED GRAVE CONCERNS OVER PRICE HIKE, ASKED GOVERNMENT TO DEVICE A MECHANISM TO CONTROL PRICE.
Senator A. Rehman Malik lauded the
efforts of Chairman Senate, Secretary Senate and Senate staff for hosting Asian
Parliament Assembly in Gwadar Balochistan. He said by hosting representatives
of 26 countries, message of peaceful and progressive Balochistan was conveyed
to the rest of the world.
While speaking during matters of
public importance, Senator A. Rehman Malik expressed grave concerns over
unannounced hike in price and sought reply from the government as how the
prices are being controlled. He said that the entire country has a dire need of
setting up mechanism and a specific system to control the prices. He said
unfortunately manufacturers, vendors and distributors fix the prices according
to own will after every hike in petroleum price and fall of Pakistani rupee. He
said there is no check and balance on the increase of the price and this
failure on the part of the provincial and federal government needs to be
rectified. He asked the government to bring an enactment to make a national
price regulator act as law by Price Regulatory Commission (PRC) to ensure price
control. He insisted that
unfortunately we could not draw any mechanism or formula for price control when
currency value declines and petrol price increases.
He
said “the government must inform the house whether any such mechanism is
followed to fix the prices of petrol as far as I know before the 18th Amendment
magistrate used to set the criteria for evaluating the prices”. He said that
when government increases the petrol price it leads to increase in inflation
across the country.
Senator
A. Rehman Malik strongly condemned the unprovoked fire across the Line of
Control (LoC) by Indian Forces. He asked the government of Pakistan to go in
United Nations against Indian brutalities against poor Kashmiris and unprovoked
fire across the Line of Control (LoC).
Senator
A. Rehman Malik said that he has demanded to discuss the letter Prime Minister
Imran Khan had written to India Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He added that he
is astonished how the letter which circulated across the world and published in
every paper cannot be discussed in this august house of Parliament.
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