ISLAMABAD: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) provincial government is planning to launch a scheme aimed at providing subsidised wheat flour and cooking oil to the most impoverished segments of society.
The scheme is expected to be unveiled by the provincial government on July 22 and Rs7bn has been earmarked for the purpose in the provincial budget, Advocate General (AG) KP Abdul Latif Yousufzai told a two-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal.
The bench was hearing an application filed by Jamaat-i-Islami Secretary General Liaquat Baloch, on the plight of hapless citizens who are being forced to buy flour at exorbitant prices despite the fact that Pakistan is proclaimed to be “an agricultural country”.
Baloch moved the application last year after receiving a letter from Chakwal resident Malik Mohammad Nazeer who complained in the letter that a kilogramme of flour was selling in the open market for Rs42/kg, as opposed to Rs13/kg just five years ago.
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