MIRPURKHAS: Wheat supply

Published March 18, 2004

MIRPURKHAS, March 17: The Chakki Owners Association of Mirpurkhas taluka has welcomed the government's initiative for reducing the price of flour in the market, by ensuring a wheat quota to the chakkis owners, at a meeting held here on Wednesday.

At the meeting, chaired by Liaquat Ali Qureshi, it was decided that following the resumption of the wheat quota, the chakki owners would sell flour to the public at Rs12 per kilogram. The owners also demanded that the Sindh food secretary issue more wheat to them in the district in order to end the flour crisis.

CONVICTED: A man, Ganga Ram, was sentenced to life imprisonment and fined Rs50,000 and his co-accused, Vishno, was sentenced to two years in jail with Rs20,000 fine by the district and sessions court here on Wednesday.

In default of payment of the fine Ganga Ram would be forced to undergo another one year of imprisonment. Ganga Ram and Vishno were convicted of killing Narainand injuring another person.

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