Crackdown on Sugar Hoarders : Geo Shahbaz Geo
By Rohail Butt • Aug 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics • 7 CommentsBesides of establishing a Ramadan package, the Punjab government of Shahbaz Sharif has come hard on the hoarders of sugar. The government has issued orders to take punitive actions against those sugar millers and traders, who have not been releasing the stock despite their commitment, causing a massive hike in the commodity price nationwide.
Not only the orders have been issued, but also already many godowns of sugar have been sealed and millions of sugar bags have been recovered. Raids are being conducted in Rawalpindi, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad, Wehari, Multan, Attock and in various other towns and cities and many more are to come in the next couple of days. The artificial crisis of sugar is about to be blown by the determined chief minister.
Billions of rupees have already been made by the market players by increasing the sugar prices with an active connivance of the political leaders. Not only the government must recover the sugar, but it must also bring these market players and their patron politicos to the justice.
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Mr Khokar, please comments. I know it is difficult to comment but r professional to twist things so twist and write your negative opinion because i can not expect from you kind of mentaliy that can admire good work of others except Mushraf..
Thousands of stashed sugar bags recovered
Updated at: 1254 PST, Saturday, August 15, 2009
LAHORE: The crackdown against sugar hoarders continued in Punjab on the directives of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and so far hundreds of thousands of sugar bags have been recovered.
In Hafizabad, district administration recovered more than 2,000 bags whereas 30,000 in Sargodha and 5,530 sugar bags have been seized in Bhakkar.
During crackdown, 1500 sugar bags confiscated in Khushab, 845 bags in Pindi Bhattian, 12,500 in Pakpattan, 15,000 in Chichawatanni, 600,000 in Bahawalnagar, 800,000 in Toba Tak Singh and more than 15,000 from Gulshan-e-Ravi in Lahore.
Sugar hoarded in Humayoun Akhtar’s mill
Updated at: 1412 PST, Saturday, August 15, 2009
ISLAMABAD: The state minister Ayatullah Durrani said on Point of Order that 78,000 tonnes of sugar have been stashed at Humayoun Akhtar’s Tandlianwala Sugar Mill, adding this hoarded sugar should be got released from this sugar mill.
Humayun Akhtar - another product of Zia, just like the Sharifs are, how could he be different than his half brothers.
Humayun Akhtar - another product of Zia- and an important friend of mush, infact he and salim saifullah are paving way for mush to lead the Q league, -birds of feather flock togather !
Yeh Baat kuch hazam nahi huwi!
it seems the matter is being hushed under the carpet, lets hope someone takes action
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Court approves interim bail of Shumaila Rana
Updated at: 1431 PST, Saturday, August 15, 2009
LAHORE: The interim bail of former PML-N’s MPA Shumaila Rana has been approved as the complainant did not pursue the case.
Talking to Geo News outside the court Saturday, Rana said she always maintained she neither stole anyone’s credit cards nor did use them, adding the trial was a conspiracy against her, which fizzled out.
The police told the court that complainant was repeatedly summoned to take forward the case; but, they declined to do so. Accordingly, police believe that complainant is not disposed to pursue the case.
Meantime, the owner of jewellery shop submitted the written statement that Shumaila neither came to his shop that day nor did she buy anything. (what was that we saw on tv?)
2400 sacks of hoarded sugar recovered in Faisalabad
Updated at: 1909 PST, Friday, August 14, 2009
FAISALABAD: Police have taken in custody at least 2400 sacks of sugar stashed at a godown of a factory and arrested five men involved in the hoarding scam, Geo News reported Friday.
EDOR City Mir Mursal received a tip-off that thousands tonnes of sugar have been hived up at a factory godown in an area of Faisalabad.
Receiving the tip-off, Police raided the factory godown; the factory guard opened fire on the police party and tried to escape from there. However, police arrested him along with four others and took in custody the 2400 sacks of sugar.
Police registered case against the factory owner.