President Asif Ali Zardari has directed the state institutions to adopt coordinated measures to ease the burden of rising energy and essential goods costs on economically vulnerable citizens amid supply pressures due to Middle East tensions.
The president chaired an expanded consultative meeting at Aiwan-e-Sadr in which Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and leadership of provinces as well as Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) also participated.
The meeting was briefed on the steps being taken by governments of the four provinces, as well as of Gilgit-Baltistan and AJK, to manage price pressures, ensure availability of essential supplies and mitigate impact on public, enabling a coordinated national response, President Secretariat Media Wing said in a statement.
