{"id":18430,"date":"2025-12-30T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=18430"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:37:05","slug":"major-cut-in-petroleum-prices-likely-on-new-year-public-relief-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=18430","title":{"rendered":"Major Cut in Petroleum Prices Likely on New Year, Public Relief Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1321\" data-end=\"1544\"><strong>A significant reduction in petroleum product prices is expected at the start of the new year, which could provide major relief to the public and is being described as a possible New Year&#8217;s gift from the government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1546\" data-end=\"1829\">According to sources, petroleum prices may be reduced by up to Rs 10.60 per litre. Officials in the Ministry of Finance said that a proposal has been prepared to reduce the price of petrol by Rs 10.60 per litre from January 1, which could directly benefit consumers across the country.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1831\" data-end=\"2048\">Sources said that the price of high-speed diesel is also expected to decrease by Rs8.59 per litre, while kerosene oil may become cheaper by up to Rs9 per litre, offering relief particularly to lower-income households.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2050\" data-end=\"2213\">Similarly, a reduction of Rs6.62 per litre has been proposed for light diesel oil, which is expected to ease fuel costs for the agricultural and transport sectors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2215\" data-end=\"2453\">According to officials, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority will submit its working paper to the government on Tuesday, after which a final decision on changes in petroleum prices will be taken following approval from the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2455\" data-end=\"2544\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant reduction in petroleum product prices is expected at the start of the new year, which could provide major relief to the public and is being described as a possible New Year&#8217;s gift from the government. According to sources, petroleum prices may be reduced by up to Rs 10.60 per litre. Officials in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[10098,146,10099,862,3858,1271],"class_list":["post-18430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-diesel-prices","tag-government","tag-new-year-relief","tag-ogra","tag-petrol-prices","tag-petroleum-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18432,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18430\/revisions\/18432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}