Public Accounts Committee summons top bureaucrats on sugar crisis

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday voiced displeasure over the non-submission of a report on sugar crisis and called the secretaries of industries, commerce and food security ministries for a briefing on it PAC Chairman Junaid Akbar Khan reminded officials that a report had been requested but was yet to be presented. Consequently, the committee summoned the secretaries of three ministries to provide details about sugar prices, imports and exports. The committee also scrutinised funds allocated to the ministry of housing and works that lapsed at the end of the fiscal year due to delays in their release. The secretary of housing and works attributed delays to the late release of final grants.