SUKKUR, May 19: The Sindh Minister for Labour, Transport, Manpower and Industries, Adil Siddiqui, has advised the bureaucracy to serve traders and businessmen with sincerity and honesty.

He was speaking at a meeting with members of the Sukkur Chamber of Commerce and Industry here on Tuesday. On this occasion, the business community apprised the minister of non-cooperation by two Sindh government secretaries, Mir Mohammad Parhiyar and Abdul Subhan Memon.

They said that they had failed to resolve problems of food grain merchants. They opposed the contract system for charging market committee fees and exorbitant enhancement of food grain licence fees by the food department which was very low in Punjab.

The minister said that he would talk to secretaries concerned to consider genuine problems of traders and asked the SCC&I members to contact him in Karachi. He also expressed concern about the kidnapping of two persons in the SITE area.

The minister said that the law and order was a priority of the Sindh government and informed that three check posts of Rangers were set up at Nooriabad. Senior vice president Rashid Sethar presented the welcome address in which he demanded that an export processing zone and a dry port should be established in Sukkur.

ARMY RECRUITMENT: The in charge, Army Selection and Recruitment Office, Sukkur, on Tuesday announced that recruitment in army would be carried out at Government Primary School, Allah Yar Chachar village, (Ghotki district) and Lakha Road Union Council (Naushahro Feroze) on May 20 and 25, respectively.