By Ali Imran
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib on Friday said the Sindh government was hand in glove with the mafia fleecing the consumers by selling wheat flour at higher rates.
Addressing a press conference along with Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Maritime Affairs Mahmood Maulvi here, he said the ruling elite of Sindh including Asif Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto and Murad Ali were responsible for adding fuel to the injury of people by not releasing the public stock of wheat to the flour mills.
He said profiteers and hoarders were at par with the Sindh cabinet and they were being facilitated to mint money at the coast of poor consumers, adding, the ruling elite had its share in the ill-gotten money.
He said it was responsibility of the government release wheat stock as such interventions help stabilize its prices. He reiterated the demand that the Sindh government should release the govt stock of the wheat at the earliest to provide relief to the consumers.
The Punjab and KPK governments had been releasing the public stock to flour mills at subsidized rates of the respective provinces to stabilize the prices of the commodity whereas Sindh govt had not released any public sector stock so far. He said in Punjab and KPK, flour mills were provided 40 kg of wheat at Rs 1950 and which they were selling at Rs 1100 per 20 kg bag.
