LAHORE: “This year, I have lost two jobs and I’m still jobless. And with the level of inflation right now I cannot even afford basic food items,” says Qasim, a labourer.
Qasim lives in a small one-room house in one of Lahore’s lower socio-economic areas, and is under severe pressure to provide for his three children, a wife and parents.
For a long time now, prices have been rising to such an extent that a petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court against a hike in the price of wheat. Hearing the plea, Justice Sajid Seth directed the government to explain why prices were skyrocketing and told it to lower the prices of essential food items.