MIRPURKHAS, Sept 21: Mirpurkhas District Naib Nazim Dr Zafar Ahmed Kamali has expressed concern over flour crisis in Ramazan.
Talking to the office-bearers of the Mirpurkhas Flour Mills Association here on Friday, Mr Kamali said that hoarders were stocking flour in godowns to get more profit and it was causing hardships to poor people.
He expressed concern over five per cent reduction in wheat quota of Mirpurkhas region and assured the millers of approaching the authorities for an increase in wheat quota.
WATER: Farmers Organizations’ Council chairman Javed Ahmed Junejo has said that following protest by the council and the growers, the irrigation authorities have increased water flow at the head of the Nara Canal from 8,000 cusecs to 13,000 cusec.
In a statement, he hailed the increased water flow and said that 30 distributaries of the canal, which had dried up after decrease in the water level, had again started flowing water.
He criticized the irrigation authorities for earlier victimisation of the farmers and said that without any intimation, 30 distributaries were denied water which caused heavy losses to the growers as they had applied fertilizers to crops and they needed fresh watering.
Mr Junejo said that a seven-member committee -- comprising himself, Ayoub Wassan, Haji Mahi Khan, Shah Nawaz Junejo, Mir Ali Nawaz Talpur, Murtaza Shah and Saleem Malkani -- had been constituted to compile complaints of corruption in funds allocated for watercourse improvement and collect proofs, which would be submitted to the NAB and the Anti Corruption Establishment.
RAID: A revenue department team, led by deputy district officer (revenue) Jawad Akram, conducted raid at a godown on Mirwah Road and sealed it on Friday.
Mangha Ram, the owner of the godown, reportedly failed to produce purchase receipts of stock of general commodities.
PROTEST: Jamat-i-Islami activists staged a demonstration here on Friday to protest against recent killing of Islami Jamiat Tulaba workers in Karachi.
The protesters, led by district JI chief Ehsan Illahi Mughal, carried banners and placards and raised slogans against the government for failing to ensure arrest of the killers. They alleged that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was involved in the killing.