MIRPURKHAS, Oct 12: The office bearers of the Flour Mills Association, Mirpurkhas, have said that the lives of the people in the district were being seriously endangered due to the food department selling unhygienic wheat to the flour mills.

Liaquat Ali Qureshi, Abdul Rasheed Abbasi, Mohammad Haneef Chohan and others told newsmen that a large number of sacks containing unhygienic wheat were transported from Khairpur district region to Mirpurkhas, and added that these were being forcibly sold by the district food officer, Nazeer Ahmed Memon.

They said that the wheat was at least four years old.

They said that these sacks were being transported to Karachi and Hyderabad.

They accused the officials of the food department of receiving commission per bag.

They said that food department officials were using old sacks for keeping wheat and selling the new sacks in the market.

They alleged that the district food officer, Mirpurkhas, was also having additional charge of the district food officer, Sanghar, and had been taking commission from the contractors for marketing wheat sacks.

They demanded that the chief minister, Sindh; the food minister, Sindh, and the chief secretary, Sindh, take legal action against the officials concerned.

ROBBERY: Two robbers barged into the house of the line superintendent, Hesco, Mushtaque, in Hameedpura Colony on Saturday and stole a licensed pistol, Rs39,000 in cash, two cameras and jewellry.