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Recently appointed Minister for Industries and Production Khusro Bakhtiar has written a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan, asking him to transfer the Sugar Advisory Board (SAB) to another ministry. APP/File
Recently appointed Minister for Industries and Production Khusro Bakhtiar has written a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan, asking him to transfer the Sugar Advisory Board (SAB) to another ministry to avoid any possible perceived conflict of interest that may arise and to allow the body to function without public objections , it emerged on Wednesday.
In a letter dated April 16, a copy of which is available with
Dawn.com, Bakhtiar started out by thanking the premier for making him the minister of industries and production, terming it a great honour .
Khusro Bakhtiar’s appointment termed ‘direct conflict of interest’
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Mian Raza Rabbani has expressed his surprise over the appointment of Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar as federal minister for industries and production and termed it a “direct conflict of interest” because of his and his family members’ involvement in the sugar industry as mentioned in the report of the sugar commission.
In a statement here on Sunday, Mr Rabbani regretted that Mr Bakhtiar had been given this important portfolio exactly one year after his removal as the minister for national food security in the aftermath of the report released by a team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the sugar and wheat crises and beneficiaries of subsidies obtained by the industry’s bigwigs.