{"id":18686,"date":"2025-09-09T21:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18686"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:04:03","slug":"treasury-opp-condemn-punjabs-wheat-flour-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18686","title":{"rendered":"Treasury, opp condemn Punjab&#8217;s wheat, flour ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In a rare show of unity, the treasury and opposition benches of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly came together on Tuesday to condemn Punjab&#8217;s decision to restrict the supply of wheat and flour to the province.<\/p>\n<p>The House unanimously passed a joint resolution declaring the ban a violation of Article 151 of the Constitution, which guarantees free trade between provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, tabled by PPP&#8217;s Ahmad Kundi, demanded that Punjab immediately lift all restrictions on the inter-provincial movement of wheat and flour.<\/p>\n<p>It expressed serious concern over Punjab&#8217;s sealing of provincial borders and creating hurdles in the supply of essential commodities to K-P, terming such moves unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The House also urged the K-P government to take up the matter with both the federal and Punjab governments to ensure adherence to the Constitution and uninterrupted provision of food staples.<\/p>\n<p>Food Minister Zahir Shah Toru clarified during the session that the K-P government would not purchase wheat in the present circumstances, as doing so would cause a loss of Rs5 billion to the provincial exchequer.<\/p>\n<p>However, he revealed that Punjab had assured K-P of supplying 50,000 metric tons of flour on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>During the debate, treasury member Shafi Jan, raising a point of order, said Punjab&#8217;s restrictions had already led to a sharp rise in flour prices, causing severe hardship to the people of K-P.<\/p>\n<p>Members from opposition parties, including PPP&#8217;s Ahmad Kundi, JUI-F&#8217;s Adnan Khan, PML-N&#8217;s Jalal Khan, and PTI&#8217;s Fazal Elahi, supported the claim, warning that K-P was facing a shortage of both wheat and flour.<\/p>\n<p>They stressed that Punjab&#8217;s ban amounted to a violation of constitutional provisions, noting that &#8220;the Constitution guarantees free trade between provinces&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare show of unity, the treasury and opposition benches of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly came together on Tuesday to condemn Punjab&#8217;s decision to restrict the supply of wheat and flour to the province. The House unanimously passed a joint resolution declaring the ban a violation of Article 151 of the Constitution, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}