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NAWABSHAH, Nov 16: The Al-Noor Sugar Mills in Shahpur Jehanian started crushing on Tuesday while the Habib and Sakrand sugar mills had not started crushing till Wednesday afternoon due to non-supply of sugarcane by growers. Sugarcane was supplied to the Al-Noor Sugar Mills from areas in Sindh and Punjab.
Habib Sugar Mills resident director Mohammad Yousuf told Dawn that the mill was ready for crushing cane on Nov 15 and indents for 70,000 maunds were issued to growers but by Wednesday afternoon, the mill received only 8,000 maunds of sugarcane. He said if the situation persisted, the mill, which had a capacity to crush 200,000 maunds per day, would be closed.
INQUIRY: The Pakhtun community of the district has demanded that police authorities should hold an inquiry into what it called a fake kidnapping case of a boy, Shah Jehan Lakho, from the Nawab Wali Mohammad village and provide justice to innocent people nominated in the FIR.
Speaking at a press conference at the press club here on Wednesday, Usman Khan, Shafiur Rehman Jadoon, Azan Gul, Syed Tahir Shah and others alleged that Islam Pathan, Liaquat Pathan and Mohammad Kalam had been arrested in a fake case by the Qazi Ahmad police.
They said the arrested people were doing business in the village for many years and they had nothing to do with the kidnapping of the boy. They said the allegations were baseless.
KILLED: A man was shot dead over an old enmity in Sadiqabad Colony here on Wednesday.
