The Karachi Dairy Farmers Association have increased the prices of milk by Rs23 per litre and it now costs Rs120 per litre.

The association’s president Shakir Gujjar said that they had requested the government to increase the price last year. The government, however, forced us to sell milk at old prices, he remarked.

“The government doesn’t realise that the price of fodder has increased a lot,” he said while speaking to SAMAA TV.

A notification was issued last year which said that the milk will be sold for Rs94 per litre, he said. “Everyone in Karachi was still selling it for Rs100 per litre.”

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Sindh’s Agriculture, Supply and Prices Minister Ismail Rahoo said that the government will launch a crackdown against the people who will sell milk at exorbitant prices.

People said that an inflation bomb has been dropped on them.

“The price of petrol has increased too and Ramazan is upon us,” said a man who had come to purchase milk. “The government is making everything more expensive for us,” he added.

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