NAWABSHAH, Jan 17: The wheat flour crisis is easing except in remote areas like Badin and Umerkot where there are no flour mills, according to Director-General of Rangers (Sindh) Maj-Gen Liaquat Ali.

Rangers and police personnel would maintain peace and ensure security during Muharram, he said.

He was presiding over a meeting held here on Thursday which reviewed the law and order situation during Muharram and the supply of wheat flour.

Rangers, he said, had been entrusted to overcome the crisis and Rangers were supervising the supply of wheat from warehouses to mills and the supply of flour to common man at the government fixed rate.

He said that the situation had deteriorated because of smuggling and hoarding but Rangers’ personnel had stopped the wheat smuggling while quota of flour mills had been increased.

Maj-Gen Ali said that police and Rangers had been deployed in all towns, who were jointly patrolling the areas.

He said Rangers would continue to play their role until flour supply situation normalised.

DIG of Hyderabad, Syed Shoukat Shah, DIG of Larkana Abdul Majeed Dasti, DIG of Mirpurkhas Syed Zulfiqar Shah, DIG of Sukkur Ali Akbar Bhangwar, Commandant of Indus Ranger Col Maqsood Aamir, Commandant of Qasim Rangers Col Khushnood Ali and DPO of Nawabshah Syed Ghayasuddin attended the meeting.

Later, he addressed a press conference at the press club here.