Former Minister Sahabzada Mehboob Sultan involved in wheat crisis, report reveals.

ISLAMABAD -- An investigative report by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the country's wheat crisis has come out, revealing that former Federal Minister for food security Sahabzada Mehboob Sultan was involved in the wheat crisis.

The report also implicates Food Minister Punjab Samiullah Chowdhury for creating the wheat crisis saying that the Food Security and Research Center kept the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) unaware of the wheat procurement situation. The report says that the wheat and flour crisis in the country was a creation of the Flour mills Association.

The report further revealed that on December 13, 2019, the Competition Commission of Pakistan imposed a fine Rs 75 million on the flour mills, which the association challenged in court.

The report states that the investigation procedure of the CCP is very slow as in 13 years...

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