Chitral admin asks traders to raise LPG rate

Report Bashir Hussain Azad, Chitral

After the closure of Lowari top, LPG disappeared from the market, but some traders after a month later imported the cylinders from Afghanistan and were selling them at Rs130 kg. However, the administration didn’t take any action against them. Recently, some LPG cylinders loaded tracks reached Chitral via Kunar road and supplied Pakistani gas to the market and because of the healthy competition between two kinds of gas traders the rates fell down to the Rs90 per kg. Today we learnt from the local traders of LPG that the local administration has ordered them to sell the Pakistani LPG at Rs100 kg instead of Rs90. It is a strange kind of administrative order to the business class to fleece poor people of Chitral.