Millers are minting money. Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar Karachi: 3 Nov: Provincial minister for food and health Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar has said that the owners of flour mills are making money at the cost of people’s health and causing a great loss to government exchequer. This he said in a statement issued here on Monday. He said that the importers had purchased 6.5 lac metric tons low quality wheat from Russia and Ukraine at the rate of 260 to 287 dollar per ton and total payment was made from 161900000 dollars to 186550000 dollars and they had done so in order to get more profit and grinding low quality wheat. He added, ‘Through this act the millers will get profit of more than 15000000 dollars and this will affect the people of Pakistan in general and people of Sindh in particular. Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar said that 18 lac metric tons good quality wheat is lying in government and private sector godowns. He said that on one hand the millers were minting money while grinding and importing low quality wheat and other hand causing loss to government exchequer. He demanded the federal government to take immediate notice of the situation.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 05:58:17 +0000
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