{"id":556141,"date":"2023-02-16T12:57:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T07:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=556141"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T07:43:55","slug":"pakistan-drops-petrol-bomb-on-inflation-hit-masses-to-appease-imf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistan-drops-petrol-bomb-on-inflation-hit-masses-to-appease-imf\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan drops petrol bomb on inflation-hit masses to appease IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in Pakistan woke up on Thursday to the shock of a historic price hike in the prices of petrol and gas as the government tried to appease the IMF for unlocking the critical loan tranche for the cash-strapped country.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cpetrol bomb\u201d as the price hike is termed these days, was dropped around Wednesday midnight, hours after the government unveiled a tax-loaded &#8216;mini-budget&#8217; in the Parliament to extract Rs 170 billion from the people through new taxes and increase in electricity and gas prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Pakistan woke up on Thursday to the shock of a historic price hike in the prices of petrol and gas as the government tried to appease the IMF for unlocking the critical loan tranche for the cash-strapped country. The \u201cpetrol bomb\u201d as the price hike is termed these days, was dropped around Wednesday midnight, hours after the government unveiled a tax-loaded &#8216;mini-budget&#8217; in the Parliament to extract Rs 170 billion from the people through new taxes and increase in electricity and gas prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}