City government told its price control magistrates on Monday to take action against vendors selling petroleum at inflated rates.
Special teams, supervised by District Monitoring Officer Amin Akbar, will launch a campaign against such vendors. Several teams conducted raids and confiscated fuel inventories.
The city government has designated 11 petrol stations to supply fuel to vehicles of Rescue-1122, Edhi Foundation and hospital ambulances.
Routine life was paralysed for those in the city who were unable to get fuel for their vehicles. Hundreds of people waiting in long queues at petrol stations shouted “Go Nawaz Go”.
Long queues of women and even children were seen carrying bottles and cans at petrol stations.
Several vendors set up food stalls near petrol stations. They wove their way through queues selling peanuts and other edibles.
Several roads with petrol stations on them were blocked for traffic as queues of vehicles waiting for fuel stretched for miles.
Many CNG station owners did not receive the gas schedule from authorities and refused to sell CNG to consumers.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 20th, 2015.