LAHORE: Public welfarehasneverbeenonthe government`s agenda, Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq said at a training workshop for the JI workers at Mansoora on Tuesday.

The rulers, he added, always made efforts to keep their masters happy.

The US and international lending agencies, he added, forced decisions on Islamabad. The latest hike in the petroleum prices was the result of the conditions put by the IMF for a fresh instalmentand we reject the rise.

The JI chief said the political parties who held long marches against the former PTI government on the issue of price increases of basic commodities were not even feeling any embarrassment on breaking all the records of inflation in three and half months. If the PTI created a disaster in the three-anda-half-year, the current government of more than 13 political parties completed the agenda of the former ruling party in months. Staff Reporter