• Qureshi hails ‘prompt’ decision to import wheat to fill 1.7m-tonne gap
• Hammad predicts up to Rs15 cut in sugar price per kg
Published 15 Oct,2020 via Dawn ISLAMABAD - Admitting that rising prices of wheat and sugar have added to the miseries of common people, three federal ministers have claimed that the government has started taking effective and practical measures, which will bring stability to prices of the commodities within days.
“This is my message on behalf of the government to a common citizen. We have realisation. We are cognisant that you (the people) have faced difficulties. The prices of sugar and flour have increased, which should not have been increased, but they did. The government is not ignorant,” said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi while speaking at a news conference with Minister for National Food Security and Research Fakhar Imam and Minister for Industries and Production Hammad Azhar here on Wednesday.
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