Buzdar directs for monitoring edibles prices.

LAHORE -- Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has directed to continue administrative measures to stabilize the prices of essential commodities besides ensuring their availability to the people at fixed prices.

The chief minister further directed to keep a vigilant eye on the hoarders and profiteers besides launching a crackdown against them. He said that action should be taken against the hoarders under the Anti-Hoarding Ordinance 2020, according to a handout issued here on Sunday.

Usman Buzdar directed Provincial Price Control Committee to strictly monitor the prices of daily use items and utilize all administrative powers for providing the same to the people at fixed rates as well. He said that timely and effective measures of the government has brought down the prices of flour, sugar and...