November 02, 2006	Thursday	Shawwal 9, 1427

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GUJRANWALA, Nov 1: The flour millers have criticised the food department for providing them poor quality wheat under quota system. Millers said at a meeting here on Wednesday that shopkeepers and customers had declined to buy poor quality flour and they were facing financial loss.

They pointed out that the food department was providing them with three-year-old wheat which was soaked and stinking.

They claimed that the department had stored huge quantity of wheat which had gathered moisture. Instead of grinding this stock, they said, the millers were using their own stock or buying wheat from commission agents of the grain market. They demanded that old stock of wheat should not be provided to them.

Meanwhile, the food department had reportedly warned millers that their licenses could be cancelled if they declined to buy wheat from it.

When contacted, the food department deputy director was not available for comments.

POLICE CONDEMNED: The city district council on Wednesday adopted a resolution condemning Baghbanpura SHO Inspector Nawaz Sial for beating up union council nazim Advocate Waqar Butt during a clash between the participants in a marriage ceremony and police and demanded that he should be suspended from service.

A council meeting was presided over by city district naib nazim Jamal Hasan Manj while nazim of union council Arif Nadeem Mehr tabled the resolution with the consent of many members.

The meeting constituted an inquiry committee comprising five nazims of union councils and EDO (health) to probe the chlorine gas leakage incident in Wazirabad when nazim of a union council, Hafeez Khilji, moved a resolution.

The meeting recommended a crackdown on dealers who were involved in the sale of illicit arms which caused increase in street crime. The participants suggested immediate fumigation in the district to check spread of dengue fever.

Opposition leader Taufiq Butt claimed that the Punjab government took back Rs2.75 billion from the city uplift package after its announcement.