MIRPURKHAS, Feb 8: A severe shortage of sugar persists in the region, the price has shot up to Rs40 per kilogram in rural areas and Rs38 in the city. Expressing concern over lack of efforts to bring the price down, community leaders have called upon President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to immediately order release of sufficient quantity of sugar in markets.
Sugar price hike was believed to be the result of late crushing season by the mills.
Hoarders have made stocks of the commodity while poor consumers were deprived of sugar.
They demanded that government should ensure proper supply of sugar in markets and also to check its price.
ARRESTED: The town police claimed to have arrested three accused, one of them absconder, in a murder case from a hotel near post office chowk on Tuesday.
The accused were posing themselves as officials of a secret agency.
Reports said that on a tip-off that some men were posing themselves as officers of a secret agency, the town police apprehended Khalid, son of Laung Hingoro, resident of Matiari, who was declared absconder in two cases including a murder committed in the jurisdiction of Oderolal police station, Matiari, and was posing himself as assistant director of ISI.
Police recovered fake card of assistant director from his possession.
The other accused were Mohammad Ibrahim, son of Mohammad Yaqoob Shaikh, a resident of Sindhri taluka and Arbab Ali, son of Gul Baig Marri, also a resident of Sindhri.
