Flour, sugar price increased without justification.

ISLAMABAD -- The government must take strict action to defeat the elements behind nationwide wheat and sugar crisis, a business leader said Saturday.

Masses are hoping that the government will take stern action against those responsible for the wheat and sugar crisis for petty personal gains, said Shahid Rasheed Butt former President ICCI.

Profiteers and hoarders are fanning unrest and promoting poverty across the country which is very dangerous for society hence this trend should be discouraged, he said.

He said that wheat and sugarcane stocks were enough for the requirements of the country but an artificial crisis was engineered which warrants an exemplary punishment to the manipulators.

Shahid Rasheed Butt said that why the...