KARACHI: Proposals sent to Centre

Published January 20, 2003

KARACHI, Jan 19: Sindh Minister for Food and Agriculture Arif Mustafa Jatoi has said the federal government has been approached to help overcome the sugarcane-related crisis by resolving the demands being agitated by the sugarcane growers and mill owners in the province.

The Federal Cabinet would take up the proposals forwarded by the Sindh government at its next meeting and take a decision on the issue, he told APP.

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