Illustration by: Murad Ali Shah Bukerai of Bukera Sharif, Tando Allahyar, in Daily Ibrat.
Dear Readers,
While All Things Pakistan has remained alive and online, it has been dormant since June 11, 2011 - when, on the blog's 5th anniversary, we decided that it was time to move on. We have been heartened by your messages and the fact that a steady traffic has continued to enjoy the archived content on ATP. While the blog itself will remain dormant, we are now beginning to add occasional (but infrequent) new material by the original authors of the blog, mostly to archive what they may now publish elsewhere. We will also be updating older posts to make sure that new readers who stumble onto this site still find it useful.
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no one of us wants to pay any tax, government imports patrol, and don’t gave a money to continue paying the subsidy so they have to the sell the patrol on a prize they buy from the market.
Here in UK i pay 40% tax on my incomes, 10-15% national insurance and in spite of that i get Patrol @ 1.16£/L
And if you somehow escape this petrol death you won’t survive the 17% electricity shock
yes, the recent hike s gonna affect all aspects of life making things dearer n dearer already out of the approach opf the masses
Sure, petrol prices effect everyone and make life harder, but this was really necessary. What has really happened here is that the ruppee has lost its value to the dollar terms. In real dollar terms (which is how we have to buy this stuff in the international markets) the price of petrol has been constant or falling in Pakistan.
How very appropriate. Simple and powerful.