Pakistan Sugar Mills Association on Sunday wrote a letter to the Ministry of Industry and Production asking them to buy sugar at Rs70 per kilogram and stop demanding a further decrease in price.

The letter states that the sugar mills will provide 60,000 tonnes of sugar at Rs70 per kg, the letter deems demands from Utility Stores and the ministry to provide it at Rs63 per kg as unfathomable.

Sugar mills association goes on to claim that the demand from the ministry and utility stores hold no lawful basis and hence they were not bound to abide by it.

The association directed the federal government to cease and desist from asking to lower the prices of sugar further and prepare a mechanism to buy it from mill owners at Rs70 per kg.

It is pertinent to mention here that the Islamabad High Court (IHC) will hear a petition filed sugarcane farmers with regard to the inquiry commission report on sugar crisis on Monday (tomorrow).