The federal government on Saturday announced it had kept the prices of petroleum products unchanged for the next fortnight.

“The government has decided to maintain the prices of all petroleum products at the current levels,” said a notification from the Finance Division.

The price of high-speed diesel (HSD) remains Rs258.64, Rs255.63 for petrol, Rs168.12 for kerosene oil and Rs153.34 for light-diesel oil (LDO).

The price notification came shortly after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that fuel prices would remain unchanged while the government would work on a package to reduce the price of electricity.

According to a statement from the Prime Minister Office, the government elected to keep fuel prices unchanged “and pass on the entire financial benefit to the public in electricity prices”.

“A package is........

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