Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Monday directed the price control committees, as well as provincial administration, to continue steps for stabilizing sugar prices.
“Come down hard on those hoarding sugar to create artificial crisis or selling the commodity on exorbitant prices and make an example all such elements.”
While issuing instructions from Saudi Arabia, the chief minister asked the administrative officials to visit markets to monitor sugar prices and intensify crackdown on hoarders.
The government has been taking all-out steps to ensure availability, as well as the sale of sugar, at fixed rate, the CM said and repeated that protection of consumers’ rights is the responsibility of the government.
The exploitation of the common man wouldn’t be tolerated and every step is being taken to curb the mafia; he maintained and reiterated that an unjustified increase in sugar price won’t be allowed.
The CM asserted that the interest of the people was dear to the government and no one would be allowed to violate the law.
He asked the industries, food and agriculture departments to make coordinated efforts while exploiting every option to stop the unjustified increase in sugar prices.
Unjustified increase and hoarding won’t be tolerated by the government as there is no shortage of sugar as ample reserves are available in the province, the CM further said.
Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said that Poet of the East Allama Muhammad Iqbal awakened the Muslims from deep slumber through his poetry and philosophical thoughts and gave the message of self-identification to the youth while employing the symbol of the eagle bird.
In his message, Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said that Allama Iqbal was an exponent of Muslim unity, who addressed the whole of humanity while rising above the geographical restrictions.
Allama Iqbal secured the future of the Muslim nation by presenting the idea of a separate homeland in the subcontinent; he continued and asserted that Pakistan would emerge as a moderate Islamic welfare state by following the vision of Allama Iqbal.
Following the philosophy and vision of Allama Iqbal was the best way to pay tributes to the Poet of the East, added Usman Buzdar.
The vision of a new Pakistan was in accordance with the philosophy and principles of Allama Iqbal, he maintained.
PM Imran Khan was materializing the dream of Iqbal’s idea of Pakistan as Allama Iqbal believed that the golden principles of justice and equality, self-respect, passion and humanism are roadmaps for development.
The nation should reiterate its commitment today to follow the vision and philosophy of Allama Iqbal, concluded the CM.
Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has expressed a deep sense of sorrow over the death of Haji Ameen Ansari, brother of Advisor Javed Akhtar Ansari.
In a condolence message, the CM extended sympathies to Javed Akhtar Ansari and other members of the bereaved family and prayed to Almighty Allah to rest the departed soul in eternal peace.
