How to control sugar prices? Muzzammil Aslam's advice to govt
How to control sugar prices? Muzzammil Aslam's advice to govt
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00:00 We will now listen to the statements of the various PDM officials regarding China.
00:10 First of all, Mr. Ahsan Iqbal, who was the head of the planning division and an important member of the government, what is he saying?
00:21 This is purely a matter of the Ministry of Commerce. And Mr. Naveed Kamar, because we had a coalition government, the PMLA cannot take all the responsibilities.
00:33 We had many important ministries with our coalition partners. And Commerce was also an important ministry within them, which was with the People's Party.
00:41 Mr. Naveed Kamar has his own answer on this.
00:51 The decision was made on the basis of the figures that were given in this case. We had a surplus of three to four times more than what was allowed.
01:11 This is not a PPP-PMLN issue. This is a technical issue. The decision was made on the basis of the figures.
01:21 The government should take action. The stocks are lying in the market. Our prices will be reduced by this.
01:41 Obviously, the PPP had this ministry. And when Faisal Karim Kundi, the important member of the PPP, was asked where he was when this decision was made, he said that the PM was not ours, but the PM of the PPP.
01:57 If Bilawal Sahib was the PM instead of Shahbaz Shaheef, would you have made different decisions?
02:04 If Bilawal Sahib was the PM, would you have made different decisions?
02:14 No, I would not have made any decision. I would not have said that the decisions of Shahbaz Shaheef could be wrong. But if Bilawal Sahib was the PM, then I would have criticized myself and given relief to the people.
02:34 I would have given relief to the people. If Bilawal Sahib was the PM, then I would have given relief to the people.
02:57 All coalition partners are equally responsible for every decision. Therefore, this is not good politics. You enjoy the government, you travel in the government's planes, but when it is time to defend the government's decisions, you say that we were watching the show there, we were touring outside.
03:19 The question is that the argument is absolutely right, smuggling is also happening, the argument is also right that the government is in the hands of the police, especially in Punjab and KP, the government has been in the hands of the police for the past 6-7 months and the government is very effective.
03:36 Now the problem that the people want to know is that this is basically the responsibility of the crime. Obviously, when a common man is going to the market, he is not getting sugar in the grocery store.
03:51 Obviously, there is a sub standard and the price is touching the sky. So if this responsibility is to be placed on one person, put ECC aside, put Kabina aside, which person or which department has failed and today the sugar is coming out of our hands.
04:09 The chief secretary of the super is responsible for this. The chief secretary of Punjab and Sindh was the chief secretary. This was a problem in our time, so we used to talk to the chief secretary and tell him that you print it, wherever you go, this thing is hidden.
04:25 The price of sugar has increased, even now, the country has increased by 2.2 lakh tons of sugar. If 2.2 lakh tons of sugar is over, then the rate should increase, it has already increased.
04:39 The sugar of the judges has been added to the profit of 510 lakh rupees. This is the benefit of the whole year. If this is to be done in half a year, if this crisis is half a year, then it is the benefit of 255 lakh rupees. Leave that too.
04:58 I say this straight, whether you like it or not, all these PDM ruling parties have got their sugar, whether it is the Sharif family, whether it is the people's party, or whether it is the Istiqam party, which is a new party.
05:15 You can understand that they have got so much money to fight the election that after the election, the money has been collected for the purchases and sales. So I think the FDR should be active from here. And all these sugar mills, the 100 rupees that they have earned, should be taxed on it, the windfall tax should be imposed on it and all the money should be withdrawn.
05:33 Otherwise, this country will not improve. It will continue to run like this.
05:36 Mr. Muzamil, we are crying over the sugar issue. Sugar is also an important thing and is a daily necessity. But along with that, the flour, you see, flour is a basic need, without it you cannot eat bread.
05:53 So tell me, the smuggling of flour is also going on and its rates are also going up. What is the solution to this? I don't understand what the solution is. Let's assume that there are sugar cartels, sugar mafia, Zakira and Doz, all those things make sense to you to some extent.
06:11 The flour issue is also there in Pakistan, there are also bumper crops and then the price of flour also increases.
06:18 See, I told you the basic reason in the beginning that your rupee has fallen by 100 to 50 rupees since last year.
06:27 So the difference of 150 rupees, for example, if you used to smuggle flour earlier, you used to get a rate of 80 rupees or 100 rupees per kilo.
06:36 Now, if you smuggle flour today, because the value of your rupee has fallen, then it will be smuggled out at 200 to 250 rupees. So the value of rupee has fallen so much, because of that, it is more difficult to sell outside.
06:48 This day was long and selling in rupees in Pakistan, that's why we saw that the journey from 70 to 140 rupees happened like this.
06:55 The rate of wheat did not increase in the global market, Pakistan's currency fell so much, because of which those who smuggled flour, if they were getting 100 dollars earlier, they were getting 15 thousand.
07:08 Now they get 100 dollars for 35 thousand. So what will happen? In that same 100 dollars, they will sell in 35 thousand. Why will they sell here?
07:15 Because of this, there was a shortage of wheat in Pakistan and another thing happened in this too. This is what happened when we left its support price at 22 thousand.
07:26 The government of PDM, the government of Zardari and Stim, made its rate at 4000. That yes, the government will give a rate of 4000.
07:34 When they announced this 4000, at that time 3131 crores were sold in the market. What did the market do? It took it and after two months, a new crop came and made the rate 4000.
07:45 From 4000, the rest of the provinces have closed the district, by putting this and that, that from this province, the goods will not go from here, the goods will not go from there, the goods will not go from there, the KP will not go.
07:55 They increased the rate at those other places and then it became a shortage and then Allah came and flooded.
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