Islamabad, February 14: Looking at the severe economic crisis of Pakistan, a new change was brought in. Pakistan to deal with IMF, consumers continue to face a new challenge where prices for daily items including milk and chicken raised. 

According to the report, the price of loose milk has been increased to PKR 210 from 190 per liter. The price of the chicken has also been increased to Rs 30-40 per kg, and now it costs Rs 480–500 per kg. The chicken is now sold at PKR700-780 a kg which was PKR620-650 per kg before, the report added while boneless meat price hit a new peak of RS 1,000–1,100 per kg.

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According to media reports the prices of milk, Karachi Milk Retailers Association media coordinator Waheed Gaddi said as per Dawn that "over 1,000 shopkeepers are selling milk at an inflated rate. These are actually shops of wholesalers/dairy farmers and not ours members".

On the soaring poultry rates, Sindh Poultry Wholesalers Association general secretary Kamal Akhtar Siddiqui said that the wholesale rate of alive bird was Rs 600 per kg while meat rate was hovering between Rs 650 and Rs 700, the report said.

This comes amid a stalemate in talks between IMF and Pakistan which come as a blow to Shehbaz Sharif's government as the country struggles with the recovery from record-breaking floods last year, which killed 1,739 people and destroyed 2 million homes.

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- With inputs from agencies

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