Quetta: As many as 29 people were injured in separate bus mishaps in Pakistan on Friday night. Both accidents took place within a two-hour span on the highway when the buses were heading towards Punjab. The first accident happened in the Muslim Bagh area of Qila Saifullah, where a passenger bus traveling from Quetta to Lahore overturned, ARY News reported. As many as 14 people were injured, with 4 of them in critical condition, according to the District Administration of Qila Saifullah.
The second bus accident took place on the same highway, within the limits of Pishin district, as per ARY News. In total, 29 people were injured in the two bus accidents on the national highway.
The rescue officials transferred all the injured passengers to the hospital for medical assistance.
Meanwhile, Pakistan is going through uncontrollable inflation which is now severely affecting the daily lives of people, and essential food items, including vegetables and pulses, have become inaccessible to middle-class people.
Moreover, the people of Pakistan are now forced to witness drastic price changes frequently.
Muhammad Waseem, a vegetable seller from Karachi said that the people are forced to face these difficulties because of the price rise.”Both the seller and the customer remain worried. On one day tomatoes cost PKR 120 per Kg and the very next day it rises to PKR 200 per Kg. The situation continues to grow worrisome,” Waseem said.
Ghulam Fareed, who’s also a local vendor, pointed out that the seasonal monsoon rains have led to a fair amount of damage to critical goods. This chain of events has paved the way for big-time wholesalers to ramp up their profit margins. The result is that small-scale sellers like Ghulam find themselves buying stock at inflated prices, which means they have no choice but to sell their goods at higher prices too. The situation is made even worse by market experts who game the system to control the supply, leaving small retailers very few options to work with. Despite being at the receiving end of the market dynamics, it’s the local retailers who bear the brunt of the consumers’ complaints about the rising prices.
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