New accord with IMF will bring hike in prices of utility, food items, warns Siraj

LAHORE    - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Emir Sirajul Haq has warned the government that its new agreement with the IMF will bring unbearable hike in prices of utility and food items. The government secret accord with the international lender was question mark on country’s sovereignty, he said while talking to party workers at Mansoora on Thursday. Sirajul Haq said the people would not accept further increase in prices of electricity and gas.  He said the more taxes would bring more miseries in the life of millions of middle class and poor people.  He said people were losing jobs, earning opportunities were vanishing and most worrying point was increase in ratio of joblessness among educated youth. He said sending kids to schools was impossible for a poor man. 

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