{"id":63877,"date":"2026-08-17T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/63877"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:57:34","slug":"govt-hikes-levy-in-tandem-with-fuel-prices-hafiz-naeem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/63877","title":{"rendered":"Govt hikes levy in tandem with fuel prices: Hafiz Naeem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>LAHORE: JI chief Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman has said that the government has not only hike the price of petroleum citing the war and international market, but it has also enhanced the Petroleum Development Levy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference here, Hafiz Naeem said that the government has collected more levy than the target. \u201cThey are citing the IMF that the levy could not be withdrawn\u201d. \u201cThe IMF is also saying to the government to reduce its expenditure,\u201d JI leader said.<\/p>\n<p>Hafiz Naeem said that the government has collected over eight trillion rupees for the petroleum levy.<\/p>\n<p>He said the power generation price was lesser, but addition of taxes has inflated it. \u201cA power consumer will only be protected when continuously consuming lesser than 200 units, if the consumption crosses single unit above 200, the electricity bill skyrockets to 10,000 rupees,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said only confession of failure will do nothing, \u201chands off the people\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/govt-hikes-levy-in-tandem-with-fuel-prices-hafiz-naeem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: JI chief Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman has said that the government has not only hike the price of petroleum citing the war and international market, but it has also enhanced the Petroleum Development Levy. Addressing a press conference here, Hafiz Naeem said that the government has collected more levy than the target. \u201cThey are citing the IMF that the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/hafiz.jpg",750,369,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":2893,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":2893,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63879,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63877\/revisions\/63879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}