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KARACHI: Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) has urged government for a long-term wheat policy aimed to avoid shortage in the country.
Addressing a press conference at Karachi Press Club on Saturday, chairman PFMA Syed Zahoor Ahmed Agha said that the food department was engaged in illegal activities for the last five years. Despite getting a price of high quality, the food department is supplying low quality wheat, he added.
He urged the government to post honest officers in all food departments to end the corruption and distribution of wheat in a transparent manner.
Chairman PFMA also criticised the Ramazan wheat subsidy programme and said that "Ramazan Atta Package" is being misused by food departments. He said that the government should develop a long-term subsidy plan to provide essential commodity to the poor masses at a reasonable price instead to spend billions of rupees on Ramazan Package. He also asked government to lift ban on inter-provincial wheat movement as Balochistan is facing a serious wheat crisis due to this ban.
Balochistan may a face situation like famine, if immediately inter-provincial ban on wheat movement could not be lifted.
Chairman PFMA requested for a long-term wheat policy with consultation of flour mills association to avoid wheat shortage and price hike in the country.
On the occasion Chaudary Ansar Javed, Muhamamd Iqbal Dawod Pakwala, Habib ur Rehman Khan Laghari, M Naeem Butt, Haji Abdul Wahid, Asim Raza Ahmed, Badruddin, Chuadary Abdul Jabbar, Juhar Ali Qandhari, Mian Mehmood ul Hasan and other office bearers of PFMA were also present.
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