A COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY: Every private company, it seems, has been busy playing with gullible customers. They keep changing the original prices and simply paste a ‘new’ price tag on the old one, which, in effect happens to be the actual price. This way they keep selling old stock at new prices. How else one may rationalise my recent experience? I purchased a pair of shoes for Rs2,100 after a tough bargain with the retailer, bringing the price down from the quoted Rs2,900. No profit margin can explain my success.

Adnan Ahmad
Mandi Bahauddin

INCOMPREHENSIBLE: A government girls school in Badin has been merged with another campus, causing serious difficulties to the 215 girls who were enrolled there and used to come from nearby villages and towns. Also worried are the families of these girls who are not sure if they want to send the girls to school anymore. The decision seems incomprehensible to the locals, but the decision-makers do not care. The education department needs to sort out the matter.

Aftab Ahmed Khaskheli
Badin

WHERE IS THE ATM?: Tando Qaiser has only one bank ATM, and the bank concerned keeps playing tricks with the locals. The ATM had broken down, and once it was fixed after quite a delay, it was reinstalled at a location that had to be searched by the locals. Once they were able to locate it, the bank shifted it to an area that is hard to reach. The locals wonder if the bank concerned is out to persecute the customers instead of facilitating them. The State Bank of Pakistan should resolve the issue.

Waqar Ahmed Nizamani
Hyderabad

FLOUR SHORTAGE: The wheat shortage is making life difficult for one and all in the community. Media reports suggest the ‘epidemic’ is affecting lives across the country. What is the government up to? Will it listen to us?

Farah Naz Saeed Ahmed
Turbat

Published in Dawn, June 12th, 2023