Karachi: The flour mill owners have once again given an ultimatum to lock down the flour mills by going on an indefinite strike from Wednesday due to non-supply of wheat to Karachi.
Chairman of Pakistan Flour Mills Association, Chaudhry Amir Abdullah, while holding a press conference at Karachi Press Club, said that the Sindh government is leaving flour for Karachi by taking extortion. Have asked.
Chairman of Pakistan Flour Mills Association, Chaudhry Aamir Abdullah, said that bribes are being taken from wheat trucks for Karachi in exchange of two and a half to three lakh rupees. If the wheat is not supplied by 7 pm, the mill owners will shut down the mills across the city for an indefinite period and there will be a complete protest by putting up locks.
Chaudhry Aamir further said that flour is being stocked on a large scale in Sindh, the Sindh government is making accusations against many people to hide its incompetence, the Secretary Food and the Minister of Food should fulfill their promise to supply wheat, flour mill industry again today. 13 April 2023 standing position.
Chaudhry Amir said that wheat is supplied to Karachi city from Sindh and Punjab, while Sindh Food Department has set up check posts at about 13 points in Sindh as usual, which is doing work differently than usual this year. , that is, in the previous years, the flour mills of Karachi were supplied with almost the required wheat for milling on a daily basis, and government procurement of wheat was also continued, but since last month, it has been very corrupt at these check posts. Officers and cadres have been installed who have broken all the previous records of extortion and have completely stopped the supply of wheat to Karachi.
The Chairman of Pakistan Flour Mills Association further said that the wheat trawler is given the corridor to Karachi for about 250 to 300,000 rupees, the rate of wheat within Sindh is 10,500 rupees and the same wheat arrives in Karachi for 12,300 rupees. The reason is bribery of lakhs of rupees and the people of Karachi have to bear the consequences.
Chaudhry Amir said that currently 70 percent of Karachi’s flour mills have stopped working and more are going to be closed due to which a severe flour crisis has arisen in the city. Met the authority several times and apprised them of the situation and requested them to purchase wheat and also allow wheat to come to flour mills in Karachi so that there is no flour crisis.
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