The Federal Government has expressed its inability to supply sugar at lower rates while no negotiations were held between Punjab government and sugar millers on the directive of Lahore High Court (LHC) to ensure availability of sugar at Rs40 a kilogram.
In his statement at the meeting of National Assembly’s standing committee, Federal Minister for Industries and Production Manzoor Wattoo said the government cannot supply sugar at lower rates. Soon there will be no sugar for utility stores as well, he added.
He said the Industries Ministry does not have any policeman nor a tehsildar or any other authority to control price hike.
High Court will implement its decision by itself, he said.
Meanwhile, Senior Minister Raja Riaz Ahmed and Food Minister Nadim Kamran addressing a press conference said the sugar millers have said that they have 200,000 tonnes of sugar which they had purchased at Rs45 per kg and they cannot sell its at the government specified rates
These Chaudhries who controls or have monopoly on Agri products need to be spanked.
They are sending Sugar and Wheat to Indians to ease their food crises and depriving Pakistani peoples from it… These Guys are TRAITORS of Pakistan
NOW it is time for these thugs to pay taxes..
END subsidies for Sugar producers
IMPOSE TAXES on AGRICUTURAL like any other person business in non-agricultural product