Kaira raps PTI-led government over 'bad governance'.

LAHORE -- Pakistan People's Party Punjab President Qamar Zaman Kaira laments that bad governance of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led government has reached a level where even its advisers are saying it's a complete failure.

'Prime minister's adviser Ishrat Hussain himself is saying the governance has completely been destroyed, while the FBR chairman says his institution needs to be restructured,' he told a press conference here on Wednesday.

Referring to the ongoing wheat flour crisis in the country, he recalled that flour-laden trucks could be seen standing along roads for distribution of the staple food at subsidised rates during Musharraf regime when the country was facing wheat shortage. The scene has been replicated after 12 years by the 'lovers of the dictator', he said.

Criticising the government, he said first surplus wheat was exported, offering a subsidy worth Rs10.5 billion to the exporters and now wheat was being imported to meet the shortage in the local market.

He asked why the government was importing the grain when new crop was due soon.

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Commenting on surge in sugar prices, Mr Kaira regretted sugar mills were not being made operational contrary to the usual practice of starting the crushing season by November end each year, while on the other hand sugarcane growers were not being paid their dues by the millers.

He asked what kind of governance it was that sugar rates were going up, adding that if the crisis had been caused by...