LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has written a letter to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General and Chairman Inquiry Commission Wajid Zia to appear before the commission to expose the “criminals behind the theft of wheat and sugar in Pakistan”.
In the letter, Abbasi said the federal government has constituted an Inquiry Commission to probe into the increase in sugar prices under the Pakistan Commissions of Inquiry Act, 2017. Section 9 of the Act vests a right in every citizen to provide any information or document to the commission about the matter under inquiry, he said.
The section read: “Power to receive reformation – A person shall have the right to provide any information or document, relating to a matter before the Commission. and the Commission may consider such information or document.”
Abbasi said former minister Khurram Dastgir Khan also intended to appear before the commission. The former PM requested the commission to set a suitable time and the place for the said purpose.
