ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the government will put everything before the people with regard to those responsible for the wheat import scandal, The News reported on Sunday. Commenting on the decision to import wheat, he said that only 3.4 million metric tonnes of the said crop was imported whereas the shortage was of 4 million metric tonnes. The premier has also been told that the additional wheat import caused a loss of more than Rs300 billion to the national exchequer. Meanwhile, the document also mentions the wheat quota for the armed forces (2022-23) with the Pakistan Army’s 175,000 metric tonnes, Pakistan Air Force’s 10,500 metric tonnes and Pakistan Navy’s 2,200 metric tonnes. For provinces, the quota for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was 1.4 million metric tonnes, Gilgit Baltistan’s 200,000 metric tonnes and Azad Kashmir’s 300,000 metric tonnes of wheat.

Source: The Nation May 05, 2024 11:30 UTC