Report on hike in price of wheat, flour released without alteration, tweets PM

• PM says the government's move is unprecedented in country's history.
• Previous political leaderships, because of their vested interests and compromises, lacked moral courage to order and release such reports: Imran.

(Karachi) Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the preliminary report into sudden hike in prices of wheat and flour has been released without tampering or alteration as promised.

In a tweet on Sunday, the premier said that the government's move is unprecedented in country's history. He added, "Previous political leaderships, because of their vested interests and compromises, lacked moral courage to order and release such reports."

The PM has expressed the resolve that no powerful lobby will be able to profiteer at the expense of public money.

The reports of the inquiry committees tasked to probe sugar and wheat crises in the country have been made public while the prime minister has directed forensic analysis to further expand findings on the subject of sugar.

https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1246691495480102912

The prime minister had constituted two high-powered committees under Director General Federal Investigation Agency and comprising a senior officer of Intelligence Bureau and DG Anti Corruption Establishment Punjab to investigate the causes behind the crises and price hike of the said commodities.

After the formation of the said committees, the prime minister had repeatedly resolved to expose and penalize those found responsible for the sugar and wheat crises to avoid the recurrence of such acts.

On submission of Inquiry reports from both the committees, certain additional questions were also referred to the bodies seeking further clarifications. The committees had furnished separate main and supplementary reports to address the further queries raised by the Prime Minister House.

The committee on wheat crisis comprised DG FIA Wajid Zia, Deputy DG IB Mubarak Zeb and DG Anti Corruption Punjab Muhammad Gohar Nafees.

The committee on the subject of sugar consisted of DG FIA Wajid Zia, Deputy DG IB Ahmad Kamal and DG Anti Corruption Establishment Punjab Muhammad Goher Nafees.