KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator and former finance minister Shaukat Tarin said Thursday that the prices of petrol, diesel, electricity and gas would be inflated further.

While talking to media in Karachi Press Club, he said in the coming days, the inflation rate would be recorded at 30 per cent. The prices of flour, pulses, oil, vegetables, fruits, and milk had risen sharply. The prices of consumer goods will further rise by 35 to 40 per cent in the next few weeks, he added.

He stated the government of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) was not doing the oil and gas trade with Russia due to fear of the United States (US). Tarin said that the wholesale price index had risen by 39 per cent as the government was doing all this on the directions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The health card and Kamyab Jawan programmes are closed everywhere except Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. This is the government of the incompetents, he said.