Speaking at the cabinet’s subsequent first meeting, PM Shehbaz highlighted the massive economic challenges facing his administration, and said that the first test of the new government was to rein in inflation and prices of food items, especially during the holy month of Ramazan which starts today (Tuesday).

“I will not tolerate any kind of disturbance in the prices of commodities in the federal territory,” he emphasized and assured the provinces of support.

He underlined the need for strict monitoring of distribution of different food items under the Rs12bn Ramazan package.

“On one hand, the common man is being crushed under the burden of a price hike, but on the other, the rich control over 90 per cent of the country’s resources,” he observed, and called upon the well to-do to play their role in ensuring national prosperity.

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