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MUTTON price has gone up to Rs720 while vegetables like tomatoes, onions and potatoes are selling at about Rs80 a kilo. Fruits like bananas are selling at Rs80 a dozen, Kabuli pomegranates at Rs220 a kilo. And yogurt sells at Rs110 a kilo.
As a result of high prices of essential commodities, the fixed income group people are in real soup.
Moreover, the electricity tariff is expected to go up to Rs18 a unit and over and above this the government wants to levy 0.5 per cent wealth tax on all moveable assets of the regular registered taxpayers.
Moreover, petrol price has gone up to Rs113, the highest in the region.
The US dollar has gone up to Rs106 while it is equivalent to 78 Bangladeshi takas and 62 Indian rupees. It seems that Pakistan is the worst of the lot in the region.
RAZA ALI DOSSA
Karachi
