Sweet revenge

No one from the political elite has come forward, even those who are mill owners, to rescue the poor people queuing up at utility and grocery stores to provide them with sugar from their own sugar mills.

They just pose for newspapers and act as though they never owned the sugar mills whose very product is under the spotlight. Instead they choose to keep mum about their ownership and allow their coffers to swell with unjust profits made by selling sugar at exorbitant prices. By the collaborative efforts of millers and traders, billions of rupees have already been siphoned off out of the pockets of the people of this already impoverished nation. If the statements of all our politicians are taken at face value, there will seem to be no sugar crisis in the country, but the ground reality is totally different.
It is a pity that, as a nation, we cannot band together and defeat the sugar cartels. Whenever a commodity is thought of as being scarce, we rush off in haste to stock up on it after buying it at an exorbitant price. The proper course of action would be to discontinue use of the scarce items for some time so that the many profiteers learn a lesson. When their goods will lie rotting in the stores, I am sure they will get their act together.

RAZIQ HUSSAIN

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