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00:00 Mirvano Kunji Saheb, if we start with wheat, you bought it for Rs. 3200, sold it for Rs. 4700,
00:09 put a good price tag on it, some middleman made money, everyone knew what stocks we had.
00:15 What happened? What will be the result of the farmers?
00:18 Either we can say that it was incompetence, but I don't think it was just incompetence.
00:24 I think it was bad intentions. We knew that the farmer has planted more wheat this year,
00:33 we will have a bumper crop. In agriculture, the weather and conditions are all upholding bumper crop.
00:41 You didn't need to import at that time. So there should be an inquiry on this,
00:46 why was the import done? There was a caretaker government then, but the head of the caretaker government in Punjab
00:54 is now a part of the government. It is a very important part. So there should be an inquiry,
01:00 there should be answers. The Secretary of Agriculture of Punjab should also come and tell us
01:05 on what basis, on what basis, did he decide at that time to import.
01:09 Of course, someone must have said that we have stocks, stocks are short.
01:13 There is an expectation, a projection for next year that the farmer has planted so much wheat,
01:18 next year it will be this much. Do you need to stockpile or not?
01:22 Because governments do such interventions if you can see that next year the stock will be less.
01:28 You don't want the price of wheat to go up, so you will import.
01:32 But today, there is a second step stage in this. When today you know that you have a bumper crop,
01:38 you have access to wheat in stores, after that you are announcing prematurely, the Punjab government,
01:44 that we will only pick half wheat from the farmer from last year.
01:48 You gave the opportunity to the middleman, to squeeze the farmer.
01:55 And the farmer's back is broken today. After that, when the farmer goes out to protest,
02:02 what do you do with him? Earlier you used to make statements, whoever goes out to protest,
02:07 that these are the 9th May, we cannot let them go out, there is no peace.
02:11 So, the farmers also did 9th May, what is the statement on that?
02:14 Why were they caught? Why was there a protest on them?
02:17 I mean, what is going on? Do they have democratic thinking or not?
02:21 Malik sir has come.
02:22 It is 9th May with the farmers, believe me. They have cried.
02:26 Malik sir, did you find it strange when you saw all these stats of wheat,
02:32 that someone has made a lot of money in the middle, why was it imported?
02:36 And this is, Mr. Daniyal Aziz, I am putting everything on you.
02:39 He says, on 23rd July, it was decided to import wheat in the ECC meeting.
02:44 And he says, when the wheat was imported, the delivery time in Pakistan,
02:51 in that much time, the ship does not reach Pakistan from Ukraine.
02:53 It takes a month, he says, 7-8 days, it means someone was already ready,
02:56 who had placed orders. Does the government think that someone has done a double-digit?
03:01 Look, what you were saying, I am totally in agreement with what he said,
03:06 that there should be a complete inquiry, I think there is no inquiry.
03:10 There is no inquiry.
03:11 That is why there is no doubt in this.
03:13 What question arises in this that all this mess should be done
03:16 and there should not be an inquiry and it should not be found out what has happened.
03:20 First of all, I am totally in agreement with what you said,
03:23 there should be a complete inquiry and it should be decided
03:28 that because of whom all these things have happened.
03:30 There is also a larger issue that the support price that we do,
03:34 through that, every year these things happen.
03:37 It has been 10-11 years since I have come into politics.
03:40 So sometimes it is found that the wheat is more, then it is found that it is actually less.
03:44 Then it is found that it was actually more, but we found that it was less.
03:48 Then it is found that sugarcane, we should actually export it
03:54 because we have a lot of it.
03:56 Then it is found that it is there, but it is a little short,
03:58 so we should not import a little.
04:00 You talked about sugar, do you remember all the sugar issue?
04:03 It happens that the mill owner who comes to you, to the government,
04:08 he says that I have a lot of sugar, then I will not drink if you give me.
04:11 This happens with you too.
04:13 I tried to poison myself by adding sugar to it.
04:17 Sir, you don't want to add any sugar.
04:20 No, no, it has to happen.
04:21 If I drink the juice that you gave me, then I will have fallen before the program.
04:26 People will think what juice is it.
04:32 Sir, there is so much sugar in it that if anyone drinks it,
04:36 I will give him another cup of tea.
04:38 Without sugar.
04:39 Without sugar, sir.
04:40 But again I will just add this thing.
04:42 I will just add sugar that how do these mafias work in our country?
04:46 Because we had to create monopolies.
04:48 He comes and says that I have so much sugar in stock,
04:51 if you let me export it, this happened with you too,
04:53 I used to watch your summaries.
04:55 If you let me export and give subsidy,
04:58 then we will buy the next sugarcane and start crushing it,
05:01 otherwise we have a lot of sugar.
05:02 You give them permission to export,
05:04 when export is done, it is found that there is a sugar shortage in Pakistan.
05:07 When will this cycle stop?
05:09 When you remove the government or any bureaucrat from this path,
05:14 then this will not happen.
05:16 See, at any time, whether it is sugar or wheat in Pakistan,
05:20 its price cannot be more than the international price and transportation cost.
05:24 It cannot be at any time.
05:26 There is no situation at all.
05:28 But when you say that I as a bureaucrat or as a politician
05:33 or as a committee that decides how much production we have,
05:39 and every time their estimation is wrong,
05:41 every time their written report comes that our wheat will be so short,
05:46 then it is found that it has increased,
05:48 so much sugar will be more, then it is found that it has decreased.
05:51 This means that whatever committees are made,
05:54 there is a special kind of manipulation going on.
05:57 Sometimes it is manipulation in favor of import,
06:00 sometimes it is manipulation in favor of export.
06:03 Now, isn't this a better way to get out of this path?
06:06 Absolutely.
06:07 So, in the worst case, if you get out of this path,
06:11 whether it is a committee or a decision that is being made through the cabinet,
06:16 if you get out of this, then the worst case,
06:19 means the worst thing,
06:21 means the worst thing will be that at any time,
06:25 the cost of food in Pakistan,
06:27 that is, the cost of wheat, sugar or flour,
06:31 cannot be more than the international cost and transportation cost.
06:35 It can be less.
06:36 When it is too less, then it will be exported.
06:39 When it is too much, then it will be imported.
06:42 Because of this, the question arises that you repeat the same mistake.
06:46 In English, it is said that the definition of insanity
06:49 is to do the same thing and expect a different result.
06:52 Translation.
06:53 The definition of insanity is to do the same thing
06:58 and expect a different result.
07:00 It's not that simple though.