KarachiPakistan’s refiners earned Rs32.2bn in three months, Topline Securities said.

The petroleum minister recently said refineries earned a normal year’s profit in three months.

Higher gross refining margins during the war between the US and Iran mainly drove the jump from Rs1.6bn a year earlier.

Petroleum dealers say a forensic audit of every refinery could allow cuts of Rs40-50 a litre.

How each outlet framed it
Dawn
frames the refinery windfall (Rs32.2bn vs Rs1.6bn) as a Rs40-50/litre consumer-price question and demands a forensic audit

Sources: Dawn