KARACHI: Flour Mills Association has announced to observe strike across Karachi from today, According to Chairman Flour Mills Association Chaudhry Amir 92 flour mills will be closed in Karachi from today.

He said that Sindh government had assured to provide wheat imported from Ukraine, to flour mills but it’s still unsure when will wheat reach Pakistan and be provided to flour mills, hence Association has announced to close flour mills.

Chairman of Association said that 20 flour mills are facing severe crisis and they are also facing problems in transporting wheat to Karachi from interior Sindh. Earlier, it was revealed that Sindh government allegedly supplied ‘substandard’ wheat to flour mill owners and chakki operators in Karachi.

According to details, more than 200,000 sacks of wheat which had rotten in government’s warehouses located in Malir and was declared unfit for human consumption were forcibly handed over to mill owners and chakki operators.

Sources claimed that mill owners and chakki operators are supplying flour of rotten wheat provided by Sindh government to market. Sources further maintained that wheat ‘forcibly’ given to mill owners and chakki operators is not even suitable for animal feed.

Published in The Daily National Courier, May, 03 2023

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