Wednesday, 11 November 2009 09:57
KARACHI: Former chairman FPCCI Standing Committee on Pharmaceuticals, Dr Mushtaq Noorwala, while expressing concern over the continuing crisis of sugar in the country, has cautioned that the pharmaceutical industry and other industries using sugar as raw material will be severely affected.
If availability of sugar at a low price is not ensured for the pharmaceutical sector, there will be a shortage of medicine which will create serious problems, especially for the common man. Besides, a large number of people engaged with this industry will be rendered jobless, he said in a statement. Dr Noorwala regretted that despite the directives of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the government s stance about availability of huge stocks of sugar, the commodity is sold at an unbearably high price and is not easily available to the public. He suggested that sugar can be sold by hawkers also to save the people from standing in long queues before utility stores. He was of the opinion that some elements, by creating an artificial crisis of sugar or wheat flour, were actually defaming and creating trouble for the government. He appealed to the consumers of soft drinks, ice creams, sweets, confectionery, etc, to cut their consumption for saving sugar.
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