LARKANA: Protest against price hike

Published September 2, 2008

LARKANA, Sept 1: A large number of workers, labourers and daily wagers held a demonstration and staged a sit-in outside Jinnabagh here on Monday in protest against skyrocketing prices of essential items.

The protesters criticised the rich for siphoning out billion of rupees, forcing the poor to starve. People were forced to sell their children after failing to fill their empty bellies, they said.

On the one hand the employment resources had shrunk and on the other the utilities rates were on the increase, affecting labourers, they said.

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