ISLAMABAD: President Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Distributors Association Irfan Khokhar on Saturday appealed to the government, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources and OGRA to take strict action against black marketing, illegal profiteering and violation of rules by LPG marketing companies.
In a statement, he said LPG marketing companies made an unjustified increase of Rs 20 per kg in LPG prices while domestic cylinder prices were raised by Rs 250 and those of commercial cylinder by Rs 1000.
LPG producers have set price at Rs 60000 per ton while in international market, LPG price is at contact price (cp) 563$ per ton, he added.
He said according to the rules of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) and LGP policy, gas should be kept available in the market at Rs 95 per kg. But the marketing companies were indulging in black marketing and artificial shortages and violating the OGRA rule, he alleged.
Khokhar said international prices remained lower than local prices during the last three months.
He said if OGRA failed to take action, then prices of LPG would further increase in coming days.
He said at present LPG was being sold at 120 per kg and domestic cylinder at Rs 1390 in Karachi, 135 Rs per kg and domestic cylinder at Rs 1570 in Lahore, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Hyderabad and Sukkur, Rs 140 per kg and domestic cylinder at Rs 1630 in Mirpur, Multan, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Kohat, Peshawar and Bannu, Rs 155 per kg and domestic cylinder at Rs 1810 in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, and at Rs 160 per kg and domestic cylinder at Rs 1670 in Murree, Azad Kashmir and FATA.
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