{"id":17522,"date":"2022-05-28T14:03:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T09:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=17522"},"modified":"2022-05-28T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T09:03:48","slug":"relief-package-to-soften-the-blow-of-fuel-price-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/05\/28\/relief-package-to-soften-the-blow-of-fuel-price-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief package to soften the blow of fuel price increases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minister Miftah Ismail said on Saturday that the government&#8217;s relief package, announced by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif a day earlier, would help protect the poor from the previous PTI government&#8217;s &#8220;storm of inflation&#8221; and the recent increase in fuel prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are unable to provide complete relief due to a lack of resources, but we will do our best.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister Miftah Ismail said on Saturday that the government&#8217;s relief package, announced by Prime Minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1173],"class_list":["post-17522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-relief-package"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Relief package to 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