Finally, President Pervez Musharraf has taken serious note of the non-availability, and resultantly high price, of wheat flour and has established a Federal Food Committee for ensuring its market availability at an affordable price.
It is an action too little and too late. The Reader's Digest (January 2008) defines the Committee as "a group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." How true it is for conditions in Pakistan!
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