{"id":21672,"date":"2026-04-25T14:31:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21672"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:31:43","slug":"fuel-price-hike-leads-to-10-increase-in-goods-transport-and-5-rise-in-public-transport-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21672","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Price Hike Leads to 10% Increase in Goods Transport and 5% Rise in Public Transport Fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad: President of the Pakistan Goods Transport Alliance Malik Shehzad Awan has announced a 10 percent increase in goods transport fares across the country following the rise in petroleum prices, while public transport operators have also implemented a 5 percent fare increase.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malik Shehzad Awan condemned the increase in petroleum prices, stating that the decision has directly impacted the transport sector, making fare hikes unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the continuous rise in fuel prices is contributing to inflation, and according to him, government policies are also affecting the livelihoods of millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>The alliance president further demanded the removal of fines imposed by motorway police and traffic police to reduce the financial burden on transporters.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, public transporters have also announced a 5 percent increase in fares, which has been implemented immediately, likely adding further financial pressure on the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: President of the Pakistan Goods Transport Alliance Malik Shehzad Awan has announced a 10 percent increase in goods transport fares across the country following the rise in petroleum prices, while public transport operators have also implemented a 5 percent fare increase. Malik Shehzad Awan condemned the increase in petroleum prices, stating that the decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21673,"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":[5683,215,9970,11979,9833,11978],"class_list":["post-21672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-fuel-prices","tag-inflation","tag-malik-shehzad-awan","tag-pakistan-transport","tag-public-transport","tag-transport-fares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21672","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=21672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21674,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21672\/revisions\/21674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}