Flour crisis: PML-N resolution calls for food minister's resignation.

LAHORE -- As the PML-N has demanded resignation of the Punjab food minister over the flour crisis through a resolution in the Punjab Assembly, Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif asked the PTI government to tell the nation where exactly did the wheat stock disappear.

'The PTI government's incompetence has triggered wheat crisis in the country. The flour crisis and massive price hike are yet another reminder of sheer callousness that is hallmark of the PTI government. People's lives are being made miserable by the day with government's indifferent attitude,' Shahbaz Sharif said in a tweet here on Saturday.

Condemning the surge in wheat prices and the situation created by the PTI government, he demanded strict action against those responsible. He asked the PTI and its leaders to tell the people the real reasons for this crisis.

'The nation deserves to know where exactly did the wheat stock disappear. Who is benefiting from this crisis. Was the stock smuggled, where exactly did it go and who is responsible for this massive incompetence which has impacted the entire country,' the PML-N president said.

Shahbaz takes dig at PTI govt through twitter

Mr Sharif reminded that during his party's tenure, Pakistan witnessed record wheat crop to the point where the country was...

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