Islamabad: The queues in the markets are getting longer, but the quantity of sugar has decreased, and the price has become very high. In the capital, Islamabad, sugar has set a new record with Rs 195 per kg. The situation is not different in other major cities; the rates have reached Rs 190 per kg in Karachi, Peshawar, and Rawalpindi; Rs 186 in Quetta; and Rs 180-185 per kg in Sialkot, Khuzdar, and other cities.
These prices are not just inflation but have become a question mark on a style of government and the economy. Government figures show that sugar exports increased by 2,200 percent compared to the previous year, and 765,000 metric tons of sugar were shipped out of the country, earning Rs 112 billion but leaving behind an empty market and a worried public. Economists say that export policies have neglected domestic consumers. Ordinary citizens are asking whether every basic need will now be available at the world market price. What is needed now is not just rhetoric, but practical action, because the sugar crisis has become an economic tragedy.
