Relief package to soften the blow of fuel price increases

Minister Miftah Ismail said on Saturday that the government’s relief package, announced by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif a day earlier, would help protect the poor from the previous PTI government’s “storm of inflation” and the recent increase in fuel prices.

He shared the criteria for receiving the relief package during a press conference in Islamabad. Women with a monthly household income of less than Rs40,000 could text or call their CNIC (computerized national identity card) numbers to 786 to receive Rs2,000, he said.

“We are unable to provide complete relief due to a lack of resources, but we will do our best.”