Imran Khan asks countrymen for 'peaceful demonstrations' on Sunday against inflation
The PTI chairman said he invites trade unions, professionals, doctors, engineers, clerks, and government workers to take to the streets

Islamabad: PTI Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday urged the fellow countrymen to come out of houses on Sunday (June 19) at 9pm to stage a "peaceful demonstration" against rising inflation.
Khan, in a recorded video message, warned that inflation would soar even higher in days to come if the nation acted as silent spectator.
"I am inviting the entire nation for a peaceful protest against inflation. I invite trade unions, professionals, doctors, engineers, clerks, and government workers to take to the streets," appealed the ex-PM.
He said he wanted to ask the incumbent rulers why they "indulged in a conspiracy" when they were not capable of handling the economy and the country.
Imran said the nation remembers the narrative of the incumbent government leaders when they were in the opposition and used to critique inflation. "Now the reality is before everyone."
"When we left the government, petrol was priced at Rs150 per litre and it was raised by Rs50 in our three-and-a-half-year tenure," the ex-PM recalled.
Imran said that the International Monetary Fund was also pressing the PTI government to raise fuel prices, because of which "we had reserved Rs200 billion in subsidies realising the impending impact of fuel price hike on the public."
Khan warned that a further hike in diesel prices would wreak an "economic havoc" in the country.
He noted the government had raised the price of petrol by Rs85 in mere 20 days — contrary to Rs50 hike made by the PTI in its nearly four-year rule — and expressed apprehension that the prices would go even further up.
He said his government had left the electricity tariff at Rs16 per unit, lamenting that the new government had since taken it to Rs30 per unit.
Khan said a 20kg sack of wheat was available for Rs1,100 and it had now surged to Rs1,500, adding ghee price had been hiked to Rs650 per kg from Rs400.
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