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"The nation today is confronted with unprecedented inflation, artificial shortage of necessary food items and power and gas load shedding but the rulers are busy in plundering the national resources without any consideration to the nation's miseries." This was stated by a leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Q Moonis Ellahi while addressing a meeting of PML Lahore Union Council Nazims, Naib Nazims, parliamentarians and ticket holders here at PML House on Thursday.
Among others, President PML-Q Lahore Ahad Malik, Major Habib ullah Warriach (Retd), M. Akram Chaudhry and Aleem Khan were also present on the occasion. Moonis Ellahi said that need of the hour was boycott of the ruling sugar, atta and commission mafias which had brought the country to near collapse. How the government could be spending billions of rupees on acquiring gas-run power units when there was acute gas shortage in the country, he questioned.
He expressed his serious concern over the planning ability of the rulers and blamed their corrupt practices as the root cause of their flawed policies. With the closure of CNG stations an overwhelming number of public and private vehicles will come to a grinding halt resulting in extremely high inflation and unemployment rates, he feared. Terming gas load shedding as anti-people step of the government, he said it was taken without any consideration or sympathy for the middle and lower income groups whose reliance on compressed natural gas (CNG) was almost 100 percent.
Moonis Ellahi said that while the incapable Punjab rulers were unable to provide any relief to the commanman their greed and lust for power had further increased. He stated that while the Punjab rulers were running away from by-election in the province their interest in Gilgit and Baltistan election was incomprehensible.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2009

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