Price hike reduction: traders and businessmen urged to show spirit of sacrifice for poor

Punjab Chief Minister, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, has said that time has come for traders and businessmen to display a spirit of sacrifice for reducing the burden of price hike on the poor. He said that though earning of legitimate profit is the right of traders and business community, however, exploitation of the poor masses cannot be allowed.
Chief Minister said here in a statement Tuesday said that industrialists and businessmen had played a commendable role in national development and promotion of economic activities but determining of their share and profit unilaterally can tarnish their image and lower their esteem in the society. He said that those who desire for excessive profit and remain unmindful to the miseries of the poor should not forget that they were promoting such traditions of cruelty and injustice in the society, which could ultimately engulf anyone.
He said that no one involved in profiteering can declare his earning as 'Rizk-e-Halal'. He said that Punjab government had undertaken effective planning to maintain prices of essential items at an affordable level through different administrative measures, however, ninety million people of the province could rightly expect from mill owners, traders and dealers that they would help supplement these efforts by maintaining their desire for profit within a reasonable limit.