Violent protests across the country due to Fuel price increase
On Wednesday, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the government's resignation, his office said, after violent protests triggered by a fuel price increase rocked the oil-rich Central Asian country, said his office.
On Tuesday, to gain control, Police used tear gas and stun grenades to drive hundreds of protesters out of the main square in Almaty, the former Soviet republic's biggest city, and the protest went on for several hours in nearby areas.
The protests shook the former Soviet republic's image as a politically stable and tightly-controlled nation - which it has used to attract hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investment into its oil and metals industries.
Early on Wednesday, Tokayev declared a state of emergency in Almaty and the oil-producing western Mangistau province and has said that domestic and foreign provocateurs were behind the violence.
On Sunday, The protests began in Mangistau province following the hike of price caps on liquefied petroleum gas, a popular car fuel, a day earlier, after which its price was more than doubled.
On Wednesday, acting cabinet members said, Tokayev ordered them and provincial governors to reinstate LPG price controls and bring them to gasoline, diesel and other "socially important" consumer goods.
He also ordered his government to develop a personal bankruptcy law and consider freezing utilities prices and subsidising rent payments for the families who are below poverty line.
The situation was later improved in the protest-hit cities as the state of emergency was declared which effected a curfew and several other restrictions in the affected cities.
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