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Opposition takes govt to task over power price hike
Stages protest after speaker allowed power minister to take floor
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ISLAMABAD:
The opposition and government lawmakers in the National Assembly traded barbs on Friday during a debate on rising inflation, particularly power price hike in the country.
Taking the floor, former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said Prime Minister Imran Khan during his marathon sit-in in 2014 burned electricity bills and asked the people not to pay power bills in protest against a raise in power tariff during the PML-N rule.
“Mr Speaker, should we pay electricity bills now or not given the fact that the PTI government has recently increased power prices,” said Ashraf, who belongs to the PPP. Speaker Asad Qaisar replied that it is the legal and ethical responsibility of every citizen to pay bills. ....

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