Due to the war in Iran, the whole of Pakistan is currently facing a huge shortage of petrol and diesel, on one hand the Pakistani government has increased the prices of petrol and diesel by Rs 55 per liter from today, while on the other hand most of the petrol pumps in Pakistan are closed due to shortage. Wherever petrol pumps are open, there are long queues of vehicles waiting to fill petrol and diesel at midnight.
Be it Punjab province of Pakistan or Sindh or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Balochistan province. ABP News has received exclusive pictures from every province which shows the situation of severe shortage of petrol and diesel in Pakistan. The lights of petrol pumps are off and people are moving from one pump to another.
bullet fired in sialkot
The situation is so bad that even at the petrol pumps in Pakistan where there is petrol, there are queues of vehicles for several kilometers waiting to fill petrol and diesel at midnight. The condition of petrol shortage in Pakistan is so bad that a young man shot two people in a fight over petrol in Sialkot, Punjab province.
Young man shot 2 people
According to the information, a young man was standing in the queue for 40 minutes to fill petrol at Aramco petrol pump in Hajipura area of ​​Sialkot, but the employee present at the petrol pump told him that the petrol was finished and asked him to return. Due to which the young man first had a fight with the petrol pump employee and then the young man shot the two employees present at the petrol pump. In the incident, a petrol pump employee died on the spot after being shot. The other employee is seriously injured and is undergoing treatment.
Petrol and diesel prices increased in Pakistan
Yesterday at 11.10 pm on the fight over petrol across Pakistan, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Finance Minister Mohammad Aurangzeb and Petrol Minister Ali Pervez Malik held a press conference and said that a large part of Pakistan’s petrol supply used to come from the Strait of Hormuz but due to the war the supply has been cut.
He said that at present Pakistan has only a few days of petrol and diesel as per its requirement, hence those who are earning money by closing petrol pumps. Action will be taken against them. Also, due to the increase in the prices of petrol and diesel in the international market, the Government of Pakistan announced the decision to increase the prices by Rs 55 simultaneously in the same press conference.
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