The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) 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 Rs7 billion 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”.
