MULTAN, May 2: The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) will send a delegation to Islamabad to meet the Commerce Minister to discuss the cotton purchase issue by the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP).

This was decided by the PCGA at its general body meeting which was attended by around 100 members from all over the country, particularly Sindh and Punjab, here on Thursday.

PCGA chairman Abdur Rashid Khan congratulated Gen Pervez Musharraf on winning a heavy mandate in the Tuesday referendum.

To safeguard the interest of farmers, the president had ordered the Commerce Ministry and the TCP to purchase one million cotton bales, but the latter had responded badly, he said.

He said that a 20-member committee had been constituted to take up the matter with Federal Commerce Minister Abdur Razzak Dawood.—APP