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The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) government is providing flour at cheaper rates to seminaries only, and the other people of the province have been left at the mercy of profiteers, said Agha Syed Ali Shah, president of the  NWFP Pakistan Muslim League (PML). The MMA government has failed in clamping down the price hike and decreasing unemployment in the province, said Mr Shah while addressing an anti-price hike and unemployment rally at Soekarno Chowk on Monday.
He said that Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan governments had announced special Ramazan packages to give relief to their people while the NWFP government had not bothered to announce such a package. "The skyrocketing price hike has compelled the people to observe fasts throughout the year," said the provincial PML president. "It is ironic that clerics are leading a luxurious life and doing nothing to resolve the problems of the people," he said.
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He called on the provincial government to take steps to end the price hike and bring the prices down to give relief to the people. "PML workers will take to the streets if the MMA government does not take an immediate step to tackle the price hike issue," he said. The MMA government had neither implemented Sharia in the province nor had given relief to the people, said Mr Shah. He added that the MMA was practicing the politics of confrontation instead of doing something for the province and its people, who had voted for them. Mr Shah said President General Pervez Musharraf's policies would bring prosperity to the country. |