GUJRANWALA: Flour mills owners have not bought wheat from the food department since April as 3.5 million bags of wheat bought from farmers in April is still lying in food department godowns.

Food department sources said flour mills owners had bought wheat on cheaper prices direct from farmers. There are more than 80 mills in Gujranwala division and none of them bought any wheat bag from the food department.

They said more than 3.5 million wheat bags lying with the department could be damaged due to weather conditions. Mills owners said they had sufficient wheat stock in their godowns and they would buy the commodity from the food department as and when they needed it.

Public call offices in jails

Inspector General of Prisons Mian Farooq Nazir says jails will be equipped with public call offices so that prisoners can talk to their family members.

Mr Nazir said this during his visit to the central jail. He said more jails would be built and 100 acres were required for the expansion of the the central jail.

Jail Superintendent Kamran Anjum said 24 call booths had been set up for prisoners. He said there were 3,000 prisoners in the jail.

Baby dies after drinking poisonous milk

Six-month-old Ayan, who was admitted to hospital for consuming poisonous milk, died on Wednesday.

His mother, Sadaf, 30, died on Tuesday while another brother Rehan, 2, was still under treatment.

Ayan and Rehan, of Baghbanpura, were hospitalised for poison treatment.

Published in Dawn, October 23rd, 2014