DURING March 2026 when US-Israel coalition suddenly attacked Iran for achieving their ulterior motives, peace in the Middle East was quite obviously disrupted and fuel supplies were also hit adversely and resultantly fuel crisis was created in the countries like Pakistan which were mostly dependent on meeting their requirements through imported fuel. The regional conflict so unleashed posed external and internal challenges for the civil and military leadership of Pakistan both directly and indirectly. Federal coalition government headed by untiring and active Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif along with Deputy PM/Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir got down to their important tasks of making concerted efforts for early return of peace in the Middle East externally and taking prompt measures for tackling the fuel crisis internally and at the same time taking a number of austerity measures for minimizing the fuel usage in public and private sectors.

While the Middle East conflict continued, fuel supply chains were disrupted to a great extent and this obviously called for concrete and effective measures to ensure the fuel consumption was kept under some check and the people were also provided relief through sorts of subsidies viz a viz to the different segments of those using fuel in buses, trucks, motorcycles, rickshaws etc. As the fuel supply chains were disrupted, internationally oil prices remained........

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