Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) Punjab while demanding for changing the sitting Provincial Secretary Food has threatened to stop supply of flour in the market after three days if their demand is not accepted. The demand was raised by PFMA Punjab Chairman Habib ur Rehman Leghari, Group leader PFMA Asim Raza Ahmad and others after an emergent meeting of the Association held here on Friday.
The meeting reviewed the situation arising out of what it claimed impounding of vehicles carrying wheat bought by the flour mills. PFMA Punjab Chairman also claimed that wheat price had reached Rs 1450 per maund in the open market because of the tactics being adopted by the provincial food department. He also hinted at a possible flour crisis in the province and said if mills stopped supplies then there would also be no availability of flour in Ramzaan bazaars.
Members of the Association also presented keys of their mills to the PFMA Chairman on this occasion symbolizing their solidarity with the call of the Association. PFMA members also demanded that the feed mills should be stopped from procurement of wheat and only flour mills should be allowed to buy wheat from the open market. It may be added here that the PFMA Punjab was protesting over stopping their wheat-carrying vehicles by the officials of the food department saying the department had resorted to those immoral tactics to meet its procurement target assigned by the provincial government.
They were of the view that wheat with mills can also be considered as the stock of the food department as the department had to release wheat to mills from its stocks when mills exhaust their buying and government start issuing wheat from the government stocks for smooth supplies of flour in the market.
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