DC orders comprehensive crackdown against profiteering.

MULTAN -- Deputy Commissioner (DC) Muhammad Tahir Watoo has directed price control magistrates to launch a comprehensive crackdown against profiteers in order to ensure availability of commodities on controlled rates.

Presiding over a meeting of the price control committee here on Wednesday, the deputy commissioner said that special teams had been formed under the supervision of assistant commissioners for checking the demand of supply at markets.

He said that all possible efforts were being made to ensure availability of commodities to masses on controlled rates adding that hoarders and profiteers would be dealt...