Pakistan's wheat crisis: Shabbar Zaidi criticizes the government
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Pakistan's wheat crisis: Shabbar Zaidi criticizes the government
Pakistan's wheat crisis: Shabbar Zaidi criticizes the government
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00:00 I am saying that you don't know how many crops are going to come in the next 6 months.
00:04 You don't know how the country will run.
00:07 When you don't know how many crops are going to come,
00:12 and how the country will run, then you tell me that the next 10 years,
00:14 the American budget is made for the next 50 years.
00:19 You don't know that the bumper crop is going to come.
00:27 So, it doesn't run like this.
00:28 See, it doesn't run like this.
00:31 You tell me, what do you know?
00:35 Tell me one thing about the economy,
00:38 or one thing about Pakistan,
00:40 about which I can predict that in 2024, 2025, 2026 or 2027, it will be like this.
00:47 Tell me one thing about which we can say that this change will not happen.
00:51 And remember one thing,
00:53 that business is always done on the basis that I know what is going to happen next.
00:58 Right.
01:00 Shabbaab, the wheat crisis that is going on,
01:03 there are some orders from the KPK government,
01:08 but the farmers are still protesting.
01:12 We already have a big issue with food security.
01:16 We are importing oil and food,
01:21 we are importing a lot of lentils,
01:23 we are importing a lot of spices.
01:26 Unfortunately, it is a agricultural country,
01:28 and yet these things are being imported.
01:30 Now, wheat and sugar are also being imported,
01:33 exported and then imported.
01:35 So, where is our food security, Shabbar sahib?
01:40 See, the thing is, I said again,
01:43 that when the basic economy is running on ad-hocism,
01:48 your entire system is running on ad-hocism,
01:50 you don't know that in the next year,
01:54 where you have to sow wheat,
01:56 where you have to sow sugarcane,
01:59 where you have to sow lentils,
02:01 where you have to sow edible oil.
02:03 So, what happens is,
02:05 the basic thing is,
02:07 that you have basically had a clash in two sectors.
02:14 One sector is of the traders,
02:16 and the other sector is of the farmers.
02:19 The traders relate wrong figures for their own benefit,
02:24 make wrong figures,
02:26 and make wrong figures and import them,
02:29 or they do their own things,
02:31 and the interests of the farmers are not being taken into consideration.
02:36 I think that the economy that has been ruined in Pakistan,
02:41 is the agricultural economy,
02:44 because they have no heir,
02:47 they have no voice.
02:49 The feudalists sitting in the assembly,
02:51 you don't think that they are the representatives of agriculture.
02:55 The poor, small farmer of agriculture,
02:58 he doesn't even get his wheat price.
03:02 So, I am trying to say that,
03:04 the poor man of Pakistan,
03:07 whether he is living in the city,
03:09 or he is living in the village,
03:12 he is actually a victim of the corruption of the Pakistan system,
03:16 and that is why we are seeing these problems today.
03:21 And I want to tell you one more thing,
03:23 that the wheat crisis,
03:25 my view on this is that,
03:26 the story of corruption,
03:28 this story of corruption is being presented,
03:31 because you want to hide the incompetence of the farmers.
03:36 I put corruption aside,
03:38 corruption is in the ground.
03:39 You first ask,
03:41 did the Punjab government and Sindh government,
03:44 give any projection to the government,
03:46 to the federal government,
03:47 to the food security?
03:49 If they did,
03:50 then where did it come from,
03:52 what came from,
03:53 that person should be hanged.
03:55 Now, by doing corruption,
03:56 you will sack a person, a secretary,
04:00 and you will close the story.
04:01 This corruption,
04:03 which is being done in Pakistan.
04:05 In your view, what is the responsibility of all this in this drought?
04:10 In this drought,
04:11 the Secretary of Agriculture of Punjab,
04:13 and the Secretary of Agriculture of Sindh,
04:15 and the Secretary of Agriculture of Frontier,
04:19 all three should be called,
04:20 and put in Islamabad for three days,
04:22 and ask them,
04:23 where did your figure of wheat come from?
04:25 They will decide later.
04:27 Did they give any figure to the National Security,
04:31 that how much wheat is going to come?
04:35 This is the question.
04:36 The political government,
04:38 the caretaker government,
04:40 will decide later.
04:42 You are switching a lot.
04:44 The political will come later.
04:46 First tell me, what figure came?
04:48 Did they know what crop was going to come?
04:52 The question is, when I am taking a decision on ECC,
04:55 what figure did I have?
04:57 This corruption will come later.
05:00 When I decided on ECC,
05:02 that wheat will be imported,
05:04 did I have any figure or not?
05:06 And if ECC did not have any figure,
05:09 then all the people of ECC,
05:11 should be disqualified in 1962-63.
05:15 Sir, from Kakar sir's words,
05:17 it seems that there was a figure,
05:19 because he said that we were demanded.
05:21 I am telling you,
05:22 why are you talking about corruption?
05:24 When a cabinet decided,
05:26 that we have to import this,
05:28 when the ECC decided in that cabinet,
05:30 that we have to import wheat,
05:32 if they did not have a figure,
05:34 then disqualify them in 1962-63.
05:37 And if they had a figure,
05:39 then call the one who was giving the figure from behind,
05:41 from where did you take the figure?
05:43 You are saying that,
05:45 caretaker should keep you aside,
05:47 and do this work.
05:48 Thank you very much.
05:49 I am not talking about caretaker or non-caretaker.
05:51 Madam, I am not talking about caretaker or non-caretaker.
05:53 You are going to caretaker or non-caretaker.
05:55 I am talking about a system.
05:57 I am not talking about any ECC,
05:59 any ECC,
06:01 that decides about the import of wheat,
06:03 when it knows that there is a shortage ahead.
06:06 Then it will have a paper, right?
06:08 I understand what you are saying, Shabbar sahib.
06:10 It will have a paper, right?
06:11 That makes sense.
06:13 That makes sense.
06:14 Thank you very much, Shabbar sahib.
06:15 You joined us.
06:16 It was a pleasure.
06:17 One thing is very clear,
06:18 we will have to see,
06:19 that do we have to go in this way?
06:21 We are going to the 24th IMF program.
06:24 Budget is going to come.
06:25 The provinces are complaining a lot.
06:28 They don't have money to run Wifaq.
06:31 Salaries are getting less.
06:33 In such a situation,
06:34 we are not getting away with our expenses.
06:37 Whether it is the government,
06:39 or a certain group of people.
06:42 And the brand that is being faced,
06:44 is the poor group.
06:45 Who are facing the problems of bread,
06:48 who are facing the problems of selling their wheat.
06:50 So, it is necessary to fix the policies.