LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri says Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi are responsible for the petrol crisis and the masses demand resignation of the petroleum minister.

He said had the people taken to the streets to bring about a revolution, nobody would have faced the oil crisis and stand in queues to get petrol.

He said after the cut in international oil prices, shortage was created in Pakistan only to the benefit of the oil mafia and the rulers.

Dr Qadri said those who had accepted the responsibility for the petrol shortage must now suggest the punishment themselves, instead of finding scapegoats in bureaucracy.

He said all the claims of the government that it would rid the country of terrorism were baseless as these rulers were useless and could not be trusted at any point.

Published in Dawn, January 20th, 2015

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