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SUKKUR, Nov 9: The supply of cheap flour through mobile vans by the Sindh Flour Mills Association to different localities of the city has caused a dispute between wholesalers of flour and millers.
The wholesalers have threatened to close their shops if flour mills continued the supply of cheap flour to the people.
Last week, a meeting of the district government, the food department and the Sindh Flour Mills Association was held to discuss ways to overcome the shortage of flour.
The flour millers alleged that they supplied extra bags of flour to wholesalers but the wholesalers and retailers hoarded the flour and sold it at higher price.
Association chairman Aijaz Baloch announced to start the mobile van service to provide cheap flour to the people.
Mobile vans are selling a 10-kilogramme bag of flour at Rs120 and have sold 5,000 bags in two days. The wholesalers are reportedly selling a 10kg bag at Rs150.
The wholesalers have threatened that they will not buy flour from the mills. The millers have said they will continue the mobile van service.
TWO KIDNAPPED: Two villagers were kidnapped by a group of armed bandits from Mohammad Ishaq Khoso village near Kandhkot on Tuesday.
The dacoits raided the village and took away 13 heads of cattle and five motorcycles. The villagers chased the dacoits and traded fire with them.
However, the dacoits captured three villagers, Karim Dino Khoso, Mohammad Ishaq Khoso and Dilwash Mazari, and took away them as well as eight cattle-heads and five motorcycles.
At some distance, the dacoits freed Mazari with a demand of Rs1 million ransom for the release of the Khosos as, according to them, the Khoso tribesmen were in majority of those people who chased and fired at them, injuring one of them.
Tension has mounted in the area after the incident with hundreds of the Khoso tribesmen assembling at the village.
