Sugar price dropped by Rs43 per kilo, claims Fawad

Criticises media for not airing the significant development

ISLAMABAD:

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry has said that the price of sugar has dropped by Rs43 per kilogramme while criticising the media for its alleged failure to air the news.

"The price of sugar has dropped by, not Rs5 or Rs10 per kilogramme, but by Rs43 per kilogramme," the minister claimed in a Twitter post on Sunday.

Criticising the media for 'refraining' from broadcasting the development, Fawad said: "The fact is our media runs on [airing] conspiracies and [instability] in the country."

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The minister then went on to term "the link of the negative media with fake news" extremely detrimental, saying, "This is why new [media] laws are necessary."

چینی کی قیمت میں پانچ نہیں دس نہیں ترتالیس روپے تک کمی آگئ ہے لیکن مجال ہے میڈیا پر یہ خبر بھی آجائے دراصل ہمارا میڈیا چوبیس گھنٹے صرف سازشوں اور غیر مستحکم ہونے کی نوید پر ہی چلتا ہے، منفی میڈیا کا فیک نیوز کے ساتھ ربط ملک کیلئے انتہائ خطرناک ہے اسی لئے نئے قوانین ضروری ہیں

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) November 14, 2021

Moreover, while responding to a query of a citizen regarding sugar hoarders, Fawad replied, "Sugar mill owners have acquired a stay on their cases, and urged the courts to expedite the proceedings."

چھیالیس ارب کا جرمانہ شوگر ملز پر competition commission نے کیا ہے اور شوگر ملز والے Stay order لے کر بیٹھے ہیں اب عدالتوں سے گزارش ہی ہے کہ ان مقدمات پر جلد فیصلے کریں https://t.co/OBgC5o1qsd

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) November 14, 2021

A week ago, the minister had lambasted mill owners for creating the artificial sugar crisis to exploit the common man and assured that the stock of sugar in the country was adequate for at least three weeks.

He had also accused Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and the Sharif family of increasing sugar prices as most of the sugar mills in Sindh and Punjab belonged to them.

The information minister had highlighted how 90,000 tonnes of sugar was currently with the private sector.