It is said that the government is going to buy uncertified and substandard sugar, since none of the local sugar producers and millers who are members of Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) holds the license issued by Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA). Just for the record, PSMA should remember the time when in order to stablise prices in December 2007, a few importers ventured into the Indian market with the asking price of Rs24 per kg as against the then PSMA ex mill price of Rs30 per kg. At that time, the PSMA tried hard to impound the shipment at Wagha Attari.
Qasim Shah
Lahore
