The parliamentary watchdog on commerce ministry has recommended creating a comprehensive database of key essentials like potato and onion to prevent price spiral in the future. The database will have estimates of 5-6 months' demand of the key essentials and the items should be stocked in advance through imports in consultation with the retailers, wholesalers and importers, they added. The parliamentary standing committee also suggested taking steps to identify this kind of problems and solving those in future through holding discussion with the ministers and secretaries of finance, commerce, agriculture and food. The JS watchdog made the recommendations at its 10th meeting at the parliament building on Tuesday, presided over by committee chairman Tofail Ahmed. The committee laid emphasis on...