An application has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking an injunction for federal and provincial governments not to increase prices of life-saving essentials till the rich of the country are not made to surrender luxuries of non-essentials following in the standard of living of Holy Prophet (PBUH).
Pakistan Lawyers Forum President A K Dogar filed this application into main petition pending for seven years. Dogar said under Article 3 of the Constitution the State is bound to eliminate all forms of exploitation.
He said accumulation of wealth, luxuries of non-essentials, sprawling palaces, keeping of an army of cooks and darbans, discrimination of classes in aeroplanes, trains, buses and hospitals, lavish furnishing of offices and residences of high state officers, luxury cars, VVIP culture are some examples of exploitation of poor by rich and powerful.