Rising Inflation, Helpless People

Bareera Anwar Baloch

Quetta: Every day, increasing inflation made the poor helpless. Common and middle-class people are fed up with the sky-high inflation of foods, vegetables, fruits, clothes, and other daily necessities. Even now, people are forced to go to extremes, such as killing their children or setting themselves on fire with their children.

If we take a deep look at the reason for this day-to-day rising inflation on all sorts of commodities, then we understand that the biggest mistake is the rush of people to buy expensive things, and unfortunately, the same things are being sold more!

Let’s take an example of our people’s problem: the day the government announces that gasoline, HSD fuel, or this or that particular thing is going to be more expensive from tomorrow, instead of striking or people coming out on the streets to protest against the sudden price hike, within hours they make huge lines on petrol pumps or for other expensive shopping malls, giving the logic that from tomorrow this is going to be more expensive which is why we must buy now at lower rates.

So here we see that it’s not the fault of the government; it’s our fault that we people buy these things rather than boycotting them or striking on the roads against government financial policies.

It should not be like that at all. We, the common people, have to raise our voice against the unfair prices of everything that are soaring from day to day, and the same is directly affecting the common people who hardly bear electricity and gas bills, household expenses, school fees, and medical bills for their children.

Let us take the example of our neighbouring country, Iran. If there is an increase in the price of anything, people come out on the streets to protest and denounce government monetary policies. Therefore, along with people, especially the government, it needs to look at these serious issues affecting the middle class and common people.

The government must make some structural reforms along with appropriate fiscal and monetary policies to relieve poverty and inflation that hit common and middle-class people until it’s too late.

The writer is a student based in Quetta, Balochistan.