Minister for mills nationalisation

ISLAMABAD (APP) - In a move to restrict profiteering and hoarding of sugar, Minister for Defence Production Abdul Qayyum Jatoi Friday has suggested to nationalise flour and sugar mills to end blackmailing of their owners and profiteers. This is the best time that government should come forward to control the profiteers and hoarders causing to increase difficulties of the masses in the holy month of Ramazan, he said in a statement issued here. The minister, who was keen to control the price-hike, underlined that through adopting such policy the government would be able to address the grievances of the masses regarding the increasing price and shortage of those basic commodities of life.

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