Provincial needs, price stability: TCP assigned one MMTs of wheat import task

Business Recorder reported that Islamabad has directed the Trading Corporation of Pakistan to begin arranging wheat imports totalling one million metric tons. The goal is to meet the provinces' requirements while keeping prices stable and supplies adequate. The move was outlined in a statement following a meeting of the Steering Committee on Wheat Import.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar chaired the meeting on Tuesday and reviewed the import requirements that every province had submitted. He instructed the TCP to carry out the groundwork needed for the imports. He also asked that the whole procedure be conducted openly and in step with all provinces.

Dar assured the meeting that the government would keep backing the provinces in maintaining steady prices and sufficient supplies of essential goods, including wheat. Attendees included ministers overseeing National Food Security and Research and Economic Affairs, SAPM Tariq Bajwa, the prime minister's food security coordinator, senior secretaries and representatives of Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.