I suggest that government volunteers should purchase vegetables from growers directly and sell it in the open market
ISLAMABAD: It is shocking to see that there have been no protests against the soaring prices in Pakistan’s mega cities while Maulana Fazlur Rehman blocks roads. Having failed to topple the PTI government in Islamabad, the opposition somehow wants people to come out and cripple the system. This is a conspiracy against the democratically elected government.
How has the price of tomatoes gone up to Rs300 per kilo? How have the prices of seeds increased six times their normal price? Are the fertiliser companies now charging 10 times more? Has the government taxed agriculture? Surely the farm labourers are not being paid less.
Certainly none of these things have taken place. The media should have worked out the actual production cost of tomatoes and onions to prove that a syndicate has been formed to raise the prices of essential vegetables. If there were shortage then vegetables should have disappeared from the market but this has not been the case either.
I suggest that government volunteers should purchase vegetables from growers directly and sell it in the open market.
Khuram Jamil
Published in The Express Tribune, November 22nd, 2019.
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