Karachi – The Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association has rejected the margin offered by the government. Chairman Abdul Samad Khan stated that they had requested an 8% margin from the government. “It is not possible to run the pumps without this margin; we will shut them down,” he said.
Chairman of the Petroleum Dealers Association, Abdul Samad Khan, along with his fellow leaders Malik Khuda Bakhsh, Wasim Qadri, Tariq Hassan, and Anwar Kamal, addressed a press conference in Karachi, stating that if the government does not increase the dealer margin to 8%, they will shut down pumps nationwide. Abdul Samad Khan announced, “We are giving the government 10 days.”
He further added that after 10 days, the dealers would call a meeting of their core committee and announce their final decision. Currently, the dealer margin stands at 3.12%. “We need a written assurance to increase it to 8%,” Khan emphasized. “The government can increase the margin in installments if it wishes.”
Petroleum dealers also highlighted that the sale of smuggled petrol and diesel has devastated their business, with around 40 to 50 percent of the petrol and diesel sold across the country being smuggled.
