KARACHI
Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum, and All Karachi Industrial Alliance, and former provincial minister Mian Zahid Hussain on Friday said Pakistan is facing a shortage of 2.5 million tons of wheat this year.
Despite the wheat shortage, the center and the provinces are engaged in political point scoring on this sensitive issue which amounts to playing with food security, he said.
Mian Zahid Hussain said that political infighting should not lead to such decisions which will increase anarchy and instability in the country.
Talking to the business community, the veteran business leader said that wheat is the most politicized food item in the world but in Pakistan, politicians go beyond all limits for their petty gains.
He said that recently, the federal government decided to provide subsidies on seeds to help the flood-affected farmers and improve the food security situation in the country.
