Sugar price hike: PAC slams ministries for failing to submit report

ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee has expressed its displeasure over the failure of ministries of the industries and commerce to submit a report on sugar prices and summoned their respective secretaries.

In a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee on Tuesday, presided over by Junaid Akbar Khan, the PAC expressed its displeasure over their failure to submit a report on the sugar situation. It summoned the secretaries of Ministries of industries, national food security and commerce in the next meeting. Chairman PAC Junaid Akbar Khan said that we had written to the three ministries asking them to explain the reasons for the sugar crisis. “But unfortunately, not a single ministry has responded yet,” he said. He said now the PAC has called the secretaries of industries, national food security and commerce to come and tell us the reasons themselves.