CHARSADDA: Qaumi Watan Party provincial chief Sikandar Hayat Sherpao has termed the heavy increase in the prices of 94 life-saving drugs a ‘cruel act’ of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government.

He said the masses had already been facing record inflation and unemployment and the high prices of medicines would multiply their miseries.

He said this while addressing a gathering at Mirza Dher union council here on Friday. On this occasion, scores of ANP and PTI workers, including Shamsher Ali, Shaukat Ali, Saddar Ali, Haider Ali, Ihsan Khan, Noor Shah Ali, Nazar Gul, Niaz Bacha, Asad Khan, Faisal Khan, Mir Zaman and others, announced joining QWP along with their families.

Sikandar Sherpao said that after hike in prices of electricity, petrol and gas, now the rulers had thrown another bombshell of increase in drug prices. He said 500 per cent hike in rates of life-saving medicines in just one year had proved the incompetence of PTI government.

“The PTI has been unable to translate its so-called agenda of ‘change’ into reality,” he remarked.

Coming down hard on the PTI leaders, the QWP leader said the government could not revive the economy despite borrowing heavily from the international financial institutions.

He said the government had failed to deliver on its pledges. He said that sugar, flour and oil mafias had benefited from the incompetence of the PTI rulers.

Published in Dawn, September 26th, 2020