Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hanif Abbasi and former caretaker prime minister, now a sitting senator Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar exchanged heated words over the scandal of wheat import during Kakar's caretaker government, allegedly leading to the delay in wheat procurement, leaving farmers in limbo.
Hanif Abbasi and Anwar Haq Kakar met face to face in a private hotel in Islamabad.
Hanif Abbasi told Anwar-ul-Haq, who is defending his decision to import wheat despite a surplus in the local market, "I swear you are a thief. You made money in the wheat scandal. I told the truth in the (TV) program."
Anwar Haq Kakar, responding to Hanif Abbasi, questioned whether he came to arrest him. "If I talked about Form-47 (of the Election Commission of Pakistan), then the PMLN people will hide their faces," Kakar said to Abbasi, in an apparent reference to alleged tampering in Form-47, as claimed by the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), whose members are part of the parliament under the name of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC).
