Provision of wheat at affordable rate, top priority of govt: PM.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Imran Khan has said provision of wheat at affordable prices and unhindered availability of the commodity is top priority of the government and directed to ensure its obstacle free inter-province movement.

He was chairing a meeting in Islamabad on Monday to review steps taken to reduce prices of edible items in Pakistan.

The Prime Minister instructed all the provincial chief secretaries under the chairmanship of Minister for National Food Security Syed Fakhar Imam to evolve a coordinated strategy to ensure sufficient stock of wheat in every province as per its needs along with uniform prices of wheat and flour in all the federating units.

He directed that farmer and common citizen should be the axis of this strategy as elements involved in profiteering and hoarding in the past had deprived the farmer of his due profit in the past, while the common citizen was compelled to buy flour at higher rates.

The Prime Minister directed to adopt a zero tolerance policy...