PESHAWAR, July 21: All Pakistan Flour Mills Association NWFP chapter has announced setting up a three-day protest camp starting from Wednesday against the Punjab government’s decision of banning inter-provincial movement of wheat.

The protest camp will be set up in front of Peshawar Press Club, where flour millers from across the province will sit and register their protest against the ‘discriminatory’ decision of Punjab, Mohammad Sadiq, chairman of the association, told a press conference here on Monday.Mr Sadiq also demanded of the ANP-led coalition government of NWFP to immediately release wheat stock to the local flour mills and take up the matter with the federal government.

Castigating the Punjab government for its decision of not allowing supply of wheat to other provinces, Mr Sadiq alleged that the Punjab government’s decision was contradictory to the 1973 constitution and also the federal food policy.—Bureau Report