Staff Reporter
Lahore
President of Pakistan Muslim League-N Mian Shahbaz Sharif has voiced concern over delay in forensic report of wheat and sugar scandal and said that government cannot hide facts from masses by delaying the report.
Former Chief Minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif claimed that head of Economic Coordination Committee and people who approved subsidy are responsible for the wheat and sugar crisis. Delay in report is Imran Khan’s admission of guilt and proof of Rs100 billion robbery by the government, he added.
He further said that there is no need for further inquiry or forensic report as inquiry commission is biased because members of the committee are also member of commission.
Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif denounced the three-week delay in the release of the final report on the sugar crisis, saying that it is an “admission of guilt” on the part of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
“The Cabinet, the Economic Coordination Committee, and all those who granted [the sugar mills] subsidies are responsible for this crisis,” he said.
“Imran Khan Niazi and Usman Buzdar are behind all the decisions,” added Sharif.
He said that the delay in the report’s release is “evidence of the Rs100bn robbery committed by the government” and was an attempt to protect the identities of the actual ones responsible for the “sugar theft”. “Concealing the findings of the sugar inquiry report will not hide Imran Khan’s crime,” said the PML-N president.
Sharif said that the people “know full well who is behind the wheat and sugar shortages” in the country and the truth will not be hidden from them.