BADIN, Oct 25: Rice millers of the district have threatened to shut down mills for an indefinite period if loadshedding does not end by Nov 1.

The vice-president of the Sindh-Balochistan Rice Mills Association, Haji Nawaz Memon, said at a meeting on Friday that unbearable and prolonged power outages had inflicted huge losses on the rice millers but they could no more sustain further losses.

Power crisis had given a serious setback to the country’s economy, he said and demanded the government immediately take back increase in electricity tariff.

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