Karachi, June 6 -- Amidst a deepening agricultural and administrative breakdown in Pakistan's Sindh province, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has expressed serious concern over rising prices of wheat in the open market, exposing the government's absolute inability to check exploitative market forces.

According to a news report by Dawn, the provincial administration has failed spectacularly in its primary agricultural duties, managing to secure less than eight per cent of its essential grain reserves while leaving citizens vulnerable to rampant exploitation by market cartels.

Chairing a high-level review meeting at CM House, Shah was informed that due to the disparity between the government's support price and market rate, the Food De...