The price of 1kg of sugar has touched the highest Rs230 mark in Chaman, Balochistan. The price control committees and the district administration are nowhere to be seen amid the sale of sugar at such an exorbitant price. There are no utility stores in Chaman, and sugar is not available at shops either. Citizens have demanded that the government take notice of the inflated sugar price.
In Arifwala, the price of 1kg of sugar is ready to hit the Rs200 mark as sugar is being sold in the city at Rs185 which is beyond the purchasing power of the poor. Citizens have demanded that the government tighten the noose around the sugar mafia. In Karachi, the sugar price fell by Rs2 per kg to Rs176 in the wholesale market. However, the retail price of 1kg of sugar is Rs190 in the city.
On the other hand, the monitoring of sugar mills of all politicians and businessmen including Sharif Family, Jahangir Khan Tareen, Chaudhry Zaka Ashraf, Haroon Akhtar and Makhdoom Umar Shehryar has started. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has deployed monitoring teams to compile a record of the sales and stock of all sugar mills.
The FBR monitoring teams will daily compile a record of sugar stocks, sales and sugar going out of the mills’ premises in all sugar mills.—NNI
