SWAT: Jamaat-i-Islami’s youth wing staged a protest rally in Mingora here on Friday against the government for its failure to control prices of the daily use commodities.

Led by party’s Mingora city chief Mujahid Farooq advocate, Mingora city youth wing president Mohammad Tayyab advocate and Pakistan Business Council president Yusuf Ali, a large number of Jamaat workers started their march from different places and gathered in front of the Swat Press Club.

They chanted slogans against the federal and provincial governments for their failure to control the rising prices of essential commodities.

They said that the record increase in commodity prices had severely affected ordinary people and they were no more in a position to afford buying essential food items like flour, sugar, ghee, pulses, meat and milk.

The speakers said on the occasion that common people were unable even to purchase food items and if the prices of the daily use items were not decreased the people would start crimes.

They said that the federal and provincial governments were engaged in settling their political scores and they had virtually no plan to provide relief to the people.

“Controlling the prices of about 23 food items is the responsibility of the provincial government, but it has failed to deliver,” they said.

Published in Dawn, january 7th, 2023