Price hike protest Peshawar: Awami National Party (ANP) has put pressure on PM Imran Khan-led government as on Thursday they launched a hunger-strike camp for failing to control growing inflation and price-hike.
Veteran politician and senior party leader Ghulam Ahmad Bilour attended the camp in Chowk Yadgar along with local leaders, reports The News International.
Other local leaders and workers of the Pakhtun nationalist party as well as traders and businessmen also joined the hunger-strike camp that will continue till Friday afternoon.
Speaking on the occasion, former federal minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour said that the prices of edible items, petroleum products and other daily-use commodities had almost doubled in the government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as compared to the previous government.
“On the one hand, the commoners can’t afford the prices of edible items and medicines while on the other the rulers claim that everything was fair and within the reach of the masses,” he was quoted as saying by The News International, adding that Prime Minister Imran Khan had not fulfilled the promises he had committed with the nation before the general elections.
“This not an issue of a single political party but the whole nation should take to the streets against the price hike and unemployment,” he said.
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