Treasury, opposition blame each other for wheat crisis.

ISLAMABAD -- The treasury and the opposition on Friday traded barbs in the Senate first over the use of helicopter by ex-premier Imran Khan to travel from his Bani Gala residence to PM House, and then over the wheat and flour crisis in the country by holding each other responsible for it.

The treasury lawmakers blamed the PTI-led provincial governments in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the flour crisis while the opposition side accused the ruling coalition in the centre for the mess making the lives of lower and middle income people miserable. At the outset of the sitting, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Dr Shahzad Waseem warned that people have to risk their lives to get a bag of flour.

He also appreciated the decision of PTI for dissolving Punjab and KP assemblies and added the party and its chief Imran Khan had to sacrifice two governments for a cause.

The opposition leader chided that the rulers' performance was confined to advertisements and making foreign tours. He also said that the government was boasting of getting pledges of foreign funding of worth $9 billion in the Geneva conference but its own finance minister himself has clarified that the funds would be in the form of loans.

Senator Waseem added that the rulers wanted to run away from elections, but PTI would push them towards the polls, which was the only way to steer the country out of the crisis. Jamaat-e-Islami Senator Mushtaq Ahmad raising the issue of wheat and flour crisis in the country said that there was...