Rs250 per kg subsidy given on ghee: Marriyum

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Minister for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb addresses a press conference in Islamabad on Monday. — PID website
Minister for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb addresses a press conference in Islamabad on Monday. — PID website

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb on Monday announced a reduction of Rs250 per kilogram in ghee price and said the commodity would be available at all outlets of Utility Stores in the country at Rs300/kg whereas a bag of 10kg wheat flour was already being sold for Rs400.

Speaking at a press conference, she said that in 2018 the price of flour was Rs35 per kilogram, but during the last four-year rule of the PTI government, mafias and cartels were allowed to fill their pockets and the masses were cru­shed under an unprecedented inflation.

Published in Dawn, June 14th, 2022

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