CHITRAL, Oct 12: Provincial Food Minister Syed Qalbe Hassan has said to meet the shortage of wheat in the district, three flour mills are being established at different places in Chitral town to provide the commodity on controlled rate. These mills will be set up in Drosh and Booni.

Addressing a press conference here on Friday, he said the flour mills would ensure smooth supply of wheat flour throughout the valley where the availability of wheat in the warehouses of food department would also continue. Local MPA Ghulam Mohammad was also present.

The minister said the reservations of the local people about the flour mills being run by outsiders would be removed. He made it clear that the subsidy enjoyed by the people of Chitral on wheat supplied by the food department would stay even after the establishment of flour mills.

ROAD ACCIDENT: One person died and three got injured when a jeep going to the Kalash valley of Bumburate plunged into a river at Shekhandeh on Friday.

The local police identified the dead as Faizur Rahman, the teacher of a local government school.—Correspondent