Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses the media after a groundbreaking event for the Naya Pakistan Housing Project in Sargodha. DawnNewsTV
SARGODHA: Prime Minister Imran Khan dampened the hopes of some two dozen ruling party lawmakers who are struggling for some sort of a patch-up between him and Jahangir Tareen.
“They (sugar mills) have fleeced masses by making a cartel. Some 60 to 70 mills drew Rs140 billion from people’s pocket,” the prime minister told media after a groundbreaking event held here in connection with the Naya Pakistan Housing Project.
Mr Khan said he was ready to speak to those who had reservations over the proceedings (against Tareen), but the government would uphold the law. “There can’t be different laws for the rich and the poor,” he declared.
No progress without accountability: PM
Imran Khan says injustice breeds poverty; inaugurates low cost housing scheme in Sargodha
Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses a ceremony in Sargodha on April 14, 2021. SCREENGRAB
SARGODHA:
Prime Minister Imran Khan has defended the ongoing crackdown against an alleged sugar mafia and said the country cannot progress until the powerful are brought to justice.
“Pakistan cannot progress without bringing the powerful to justice. Injustice breeds poverty,” Imran Khan said on Wednesday while addressing the media during his visit to Punjab’s Sargodha district.
The prime minister was responding to a question with regard to PTI’s former secretary general Jahangir Tareen, who is also among the sugar mills owners facing an Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) inquiry.
By Mumtaz Alvi
SARGODHA: Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday that sugar mill owners extracted Rs126 to Rs140 billion from the pockets of the people by increasing the price of sugar by Rs26 in one year.
Talking to the media after laying the foundation stone of low-cost housing units under the Naya Pakistan Housing Programme here, the prime minister said: “The government’s job is to protect its people.”
He added that the government conducted an inquiry into the sugar scam through the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), which submitted a startling report showing how the mill owners and powerful people had minted money by increasing the price, evading tax, etc.
Law will decide sugar barons’ fate, says PM
Prime Minister Imran Khan dampened the hopes of some two dozen ruling party lawmakers who are struggling for some sort of a patch-up between him and Jahangir Tareen.
“They (sugar mills) have fleeced masses by making a cartel. Some 60 to 70 mills drew Rs140 billion from people’s pocket,” the prime minister told media after a groundbreaking event held here in connection with the Naya Pakistan Housing Project.
Mr Khan said he was ready to speak to those who had reservations over the proceedings (against Tareen), but the government would uphold the law. “There can’t be different laws for the rich and the poor,” he declared.
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