August 31, 2026
A US strike on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz sent Brent crude up $2.51 on Monday. Aflatoon reads Ogra's price sheet to see how — and how slowly — a rocket launcher in the strait reaches a Pakistani petrol pump, and who pays the Rs105.96 in tax that is already there.
August 30, 2026
JI emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman says his party will occupy roads in Rawalpindi and Islamabad if the administration will not clear its Liaquat Bagh rally, on day 15 of nationwide sit-ins against the petroleum levy.
August 25, 2026
Hafiz Naeemur Rehman told the Lahore sit-in that oil companies are receiving undue margins on petrol, said talks can only be about abolishing the levy, and announced rallies in Faisalabad and Rawalpindi ahead of a nationwide strike.
August 25, 2026
Petrol goes up Rs0.39 and high-speed diesel Rs2.40 with effect from August 25. Diesel has now given back more than a fifth of last week's Rs32.63 cut across three consecutive increases.
August 24, 2026
The Field Marshal flies to Tehran on the day Washington unveils its heaviest sanctions yet, while Jamaat-e-Islami prepares to shut the country over the price of diesel. Aflatoon on a foreign policy that now arrives at the pump.
August 24, 2026
JI emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman says the sit-ins, now in their eighth day, will become a nationwide shutter-down strike after Eid Milad un Nabi, and that the protest will not end on government assurances alone.
August 22, 2026
Petrol goes to Rs341.59 a litre and high-speed diesel to Rs368.29, effective August 22 and holding until Monday, August 24. It is the largest single-day rise in either fuel since the Rs32.63 diesel cut earlier in the week.
August 21, 2026
JI emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman says the sit-ins running since August 16 will escalate into a nationwide wheel-jam and shutter-down strike the week after 12th Rabiul Awwal. He has rejected the Rs32.63 diesel cut and is demanding a Rs130 reduction.
August 21, 2026
Petrol rises Rs0.27 to Rs337.78 a litre and high-speed diesel Rs1.64 to Rs364.70, effective August 21. The diesel increase claws back a small part of the Rs32.63 reduction agreed with refineries earlier in the week.
August 20, 2026
The government cut diesel by Rs32.63 a litre this week. It did so not by reducing its own tax but by asking four private refineries to give up part of their margin. Aflatoon on relief that arrives without the treasury paying for any of it.
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