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Pakistan Sindh

Karachi’s public transporters refuse to cut fares

KARACHI:  Despite considerable reduction in petroleum products’ prices, owners of public transport have refused to cut transports fares.

President Karachi Transport Ittehad (KTI) Irshad Bukhari said that pubic transport buses had been switched to CNG and they could not cut fares on reduction of oil prices.

He threatened that if the government forced them to cut fares, they would go on strike and park their vehicles in protest.

 

It is to be mentioned here that the government had slashed petroleum products prices by upto Rs 10 per liter to pass on the benefit of decrease in oil prices in international market.

 

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