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Addressing a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club, Association President Gul Nawaz Khan Afridi, along with Akhtar Nawaz Khan, Maqsood Anwar, and Amjad Ali Shinwari, warned that deregulation would turn oil companies into a monopoly, leaving consumers at their mercy. They argued that Pakistan\u2019s economy relies heavily on oil-related taxes and that deregulation would disrupt the market, allowing oil companies to import fuel solely for their benefit while reducing transparency in the sector. DLP Report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: The Pakhtunkhwa Petroleum Dealers Association has strongly opposed the government\u2019s proposed petroleum deregulation policy, calling it an \u201ceconomic murder\u201d of petrol pump owners. Addressing a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club, Association President Gul Nawaz Khan Afridi, along with Akhtar Nawaz Khan, Maqsood Anwar, and Amjad Ali Shinwari, warned that deregulation would turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-463827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Petroleum dealers reject deregulation policy, threaten strike<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/petroleum-dealers-reject-deregulation-policy-threaten-strike\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Petroleum dealers reject deregulation policy, threaten strike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PESHAWAR: The Pakhtunkhwa Petroleum Dealers Association has strongly opposed the government\u2019s proposed petroleum deregulation policy, calling it an \u201ceconomic murder\u201d of petrol pump owners. 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