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Pakistan transporters strike over daily fuel price mechanism

Pakistan transporters strike over daily fuel price mechanism
Pakistan: Industrial and export supply chains face disruption due to goods, oil transporters strike · thehansindia.com

Truck drivers and oil tanker drivers in Pakistan are on strike.

That means they stopped working on purpose to show they are angry.

They don't like that the government changes fuel prices every single day.

They want the old system back, where prices changed once a month.

They also think they pay too much tax.

Because the trucks stopped, factories and businesses that send goods to other countries are having problems.

More than 400,000 trucks have stopped driving.

The drivers' leader says they will keep striking until they meet government ministers on Monday.

The government did lower petrol and diesel prices a little on Friday, but the drivers still want bigger changes.

Key facts

Protesters
Goods transporters and oil tankers
Vehicles suspended
Over 400,000
Strike start
Saturday
Petrol price
PKR 327.62 per litre
High-speed diesel price
PKR 380.86 per litre
Petrol price cut
PKR 2.20 per litre
High-speed diesel price cut
PKR 1.50 per litre
Key demands
Monthly fuel price mechanism; withholding tax cut from 7% to 2%

Quotes

Nisar Hussain Jafry

Chairman of Pakistan Goods Transporters Alliance

“The movement of over 400,000 goods‑carrying vehicles had been suspended from Saturday until the meeting with the authorities on Monday.”
thehansindia.com

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