{"id":3068,"date":"2021-10-06T11:34:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T11:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2021-10-06T11:34:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T11:34:39","slug":"pm-imran-khan-directs-ipc-ministry-to-push-sindh-province-to-release-wheat-fawad-ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/pm-imran-khan-directs-ipc-ministry-to-push-sindh-province-to-release-wheat-fawad-ch\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Imran Khan directs IPC ministry to push Sindh province to release wheat: Fawad Ch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Tuesday said that Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has directed the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) to push the Sindh government for an immediate release of wheat to bring down its price across the province.<br \/>\nIn a tweet, the minister decried the skyrocketing wheat prices in the province and claimed that the reason for such a sharp increase in the prices was the provincial government\u2019s decision to block the release of 1.2 million tons of wheat.<br \/>\nHe said that the Sindh government did not buy wheat during the harvesting season. The directives come amid a price surge in the province.<br \/>\nThe federal government had recently started releasing wheat from warehouses in Punjab at an issue price of Rs1,950 per 40kg, which was helping reduce flour prices by Rs7\/kg.<br \/>\nHowever, consumers in Sindh continue to suffer as they have to buy flour at a much higher price.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pml-n-rejects-pm-imran-khan-pandora-papers-investigation-cell.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PML-N rejects PM Imran Khan Pandora Papers Investigation Cell<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Tuesday said that Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has directed the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) to push the Sindh government for an immediate release of wheat to bring down its price across the province. In a tweet, the minister decried the skyrocketing wheat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,2],"tags":[488,487,1541,1499,546,633,1542],"class_list":["post-3068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-chaudhry-fawad-hussain","tag-federal-minister-for-information-and-broadcasting","tag-ipc","tag-pml-n-rejects-pm-imran-khan-pandora-papers-investigation-cell","tag-prime-minister-pm-imran-khan","tag-sindh-government","tag-wheat-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}