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Giving in to IMF was easy way out
Accompanying the cabinet decision is a promise that petroleum prices will henceforth be adjusted, on a quarterly basis, according to international oil prices. Oil prices were linked with the border prices in 1990 when the world market price of crude was $24 a barrel about the same as today.
Subsequently, oilprices began declining, touching the bottom at $9 last year. But the consumer never got any relief from that downswing. There is absolutely no logic or consistency in the government’s policy in respect of domestic oil prices. This policy is self-defeating.
Water tanker mafia squeezes dry Karachi
Many of these illegal, privately-owned hydrants, on which tankers depend for their daily supply, contain subsoil water that is brackish. In many cases the water from the hydrants may also be contaminated by sewage or toxic industrial waste that have seeped into the ground. The tanker mafia is also responsible, withthe connivance of certain KWSB employees, of deliberately creating conditions that keep tanker supplies in demand, leaving residents with no choice but to buy their requirements from tanker services.
A committee had been set up under the previous administration to regulate hydrant and tanker operations in the city but nothing concrete has been done to mend matters.
