Sindh ministers blame centre's 'flawed' policies for countrywide flour crisis.

Byline: Hasan Mansoor

KARACHI -- As the public suffered owing to the recent increase in flour price and wheat shortage in Sindh and elsewhere in the country, the Pakistan Poeples Party's provincial ministers and PTI lawmakers blamed each other for the 'artificial crisis' on Sunday.

Sindh Information and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani said the whole country was facing a flour crisis owing to the incompetence and ineptitude of the PTI-led federal government.

'Such a grave crisis has emerged because of the inability of the PTI-led federal government, making it clear what is in store in the future,' said the provincial minister while speaking to reporters.

He made it clear that Sindh faced the flour crisis because of the weeklong strike by the goods transporters.

'As the goods transporters were on strike for a week or so that's why wheat stored in the warehouses of Punjab and Balochistan could not be brought here,' he said.

Mr Ghani held the 'flawed policies' of the federal government responsible and a key reason that forced the transporters to go on strike. He said since the end of the transporters' strike 70,000 bags of wheat had reached Sindh, hoping that by expediting the process the flour crisis would end in Sindh within the next three to four days.

PTI parliamentarians hold the Sindh govt responsible for the 'artificial' crisis

The information minister said: 'Why those who are blaming the Sindh government for creating a flour crisis in Sindh do not expose those who are actually creating the flour crisis in Punjab?'

He said the prime minister should apologise to the public for making them suffer so severely by failing to manage the crises that had agonisingly hit the day-to-day life of the people of Pakistan.

He said if the government had to blame the Sindh government for every blunder the former committed then the PTI government should resign immediately by accepting its incompetence and failures.

'35 million tonnes of wheat in stores'

Agriculture Minister Ismail Rahu said wheat was in stores in Larkana, Sukkur and Thatta and the issue of prices of flour in Sindh would be resolved by Wednesday.

He said wheat harvesting would start in a couple of months in Sindh and then its supply would begin in the province.

He said Sindh had wheat in stock that was enough to end the flour crisis that briefly lasted in Karachi.

'We have 35 million tonnes of wheat in stores, which is enough to end such crises.'

He accused the federal government of being...