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Posts tagged Sugar
A bitter sweet tale of sugar
Nov 14th
Shopkeepers in Rawalpindi sell sugar at Rs90 – Rs105 per kg despite directive by Punjab govt to fix price.
Fighting the sugar mafia
Nov 13th
If the government were a little wiser, it would use the sugar crisis to increase its goodwill and establish its writ.
5,000 tonnes of sugar to be imported
Nov 13th
The federal govt has decided to sell imported sugar at Rs65 per kg in a bid to end hoarding, decrease sugar prices.
‘Sugar hoarding conspiracy of district admin.’
Nov 13th
ISLAMABAD: After wholesalers and small shopowners have hoarded huge amount of sugar, the prices are being forcefully brought down by Rs.25 to Rs.30 per kilogram, Geo News reported. Federal Minister for Industries and Productions Mir Hazar Bajrani said in a statement that the local administration and wholesalers, shopowners jointly conspire sugar hoarding to earn huge amount of profits.
Get your sweet revenge
Nov 13th
Consume less sugar. Help thwart the nefarious designs of a vile bunch of bloodsuckers holding this country hostage.
Sugar price fixed at Rs72/ Kg
Nov 12th
ISLAMABAD: Arresting the exceptionally soaring trends of sugar price, the higher authorities on Friday decided to keep the rate of the essential commodity up to Rs. 72 per Kg throughout the country, besides directing FIA to submit report on hoarding to the government by Tuesday (Nov 15). The meeting chaired by Minister for Interior Rehman Malik at the Ministry of Interior was held to discuss measures to keep the prices of edible items to a reasonable scale with special regard to the price of sugar.
Pakistan’s comedians: Riot act
Nov 12th
Remembering the genius of Anwar Maqsood, Omar Sharif and others – they don’t make comedians like they used to.
12000 sugar bags seized from rice store
Nov 12th
KARACHI: At least 12000 sacks of sugar, hoarded in a rice godown, have been seized as police claimed carrying out massive crackdown in Korangi locality in Karachi, Geo News reported. Each sugar bag weighs 50 kilogram, police sources said
Tax reform in a season of turmoil
Nov 12th
It is true that RGST is unavoidable,even in these days of economic contraction, IMF or no IMF.
Sugar: The profits of scarcity
Nov 12th
The recurring nature of the sugar crises reveal the interlocking nature of the economic and political interests.
