KARACHI, April 16: Milk sellers have been fleecing the poor citizens by selling milk at about Rs32 per litre for the last many weeks, as the city government top brass continued to look the other way.

The hue and cry of citizens over this unannounced increase in milk price seems falling on the deaf ear. In the country, where prices of oil, sugar, cement and wheat flour are already on fire, the sharp rise in milk price is considered another display of insensitiveness on behalf of the ruling class regarding the problems of millions of poor and low-income families.

Milk is not only an essential commodity used by people belonging to all classes, but it is also an integral part of the diet of infants and toddlers, who are called ‘the future of the nation’. The housewives are facing with immense difficulties to balance their kitchen budget due to this sharp rise in milk price.

It is good for administrations to be ‘trader-friendly’, but ignoring this economic loot and plunder of innocent citizens by the profiteers could not be justifiable under any pretext.

Citizens demand that the city nazim and other higher authorities should take serious notice of rise in milk price without any further delay. —PPI