The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) held an important consultative meeting in which PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif decided to hold accountable those who created the wheat crisis across the country, including the country's largest province, Punjab.
Nawaz Sharif summoned the Prime Minister to the provincial metropolis of Lahore on May 6 over the wheat scandal.
Nawaz Sharif was given a briefing that the caretaker government was responsible for the wheat crisis in the country.
Sources said that Nawaz Sharif has asked Shehbaz Sharif on May 6 over the wheat scandal. The prime minister will inform Nawaz Sharif of the wheat scandal on May 6.
Sources familiar with the development claimed that the government has decided to procure the wheat once the facts of the wheat import scandal are fully revealed.
The PMLN huddle recovered multiple options for wheat purchases from the farmers.
Sources claimed an option of giving a ‘Farmer Card’ of Rs5 billion is also under consideration in the matter of buying wheat.
PMLN supremo and thrice-elected prime minister Nawaz Sharif instructed his party in power to provide ‘Kissan Card’ to farmers as soon as possible.
‘Caretaker government is responsible for wheat crisis’
Nawaz Sharif was given a briefing that said that first wheat was imported as the ship carrying wheat arrived in Pakistan in merely seven days instead of 25 days and then the cabinet was informed about the ship and subsequently approval granted.
