LARKANA: Reduction in wheat prices demanded
LARKANA, Jan 18: The flour mill owners and the representatives of growers have urged the government to lower the price of wheat so that wheat stocks could be saved.
Gada Hussain Mahiser, president, Sindh-Balochistan Rice Millers, and other traders demanded the secretary, Food, Ghulam Dastagir Khan, to equalize its rates with those of Punjab.
The wheat stocks lying in godowns had already been attacked by weevils.
The secretary food disclosed that the Sindh Government was still undecided about the coming procurement target, and added only 200,000 tons of wheat from last year’s stock had been sold so far.
He hinted at exporting wheat to Egypt and Iraq, and admitted that Sindh could not purchase the entire quantity of wheat grown in Sindh.
However, he said the Pakistan Rice Research Institute had been entrusted to modify the quality of wheat.
SHC: The division bench of the Sindh High Court, Larkana circuit bench, asked the Deputy Attorney General of Pakistan to appear on Jan 31.
The bench consisted of Anwer Zaheer Jamali and Justice Zawar Hussain Jafferi.
The petitioner, Khalid Iqbal Memon, through his advocate, Inayatullah Morio, invoking article 199 of the constitution, filed a petition and prayed to the court to issue ‘writ of Mandamus’ directing the federal government, the chairman, NADRA, the director general, registration, Islamabad, the chairman, Sindhi Language Authority (SLA), to prepare and issue the new electoral rolls and the National Identity Cards in the Sindhi language after seeking technical assistance from the SLA.
The local NADRA officer said the office had received about 75,000 applications for getting the computerized National Identity Cards. But the office had 3,000 cards in Urdu only containing technical defects. Out of these about 200 cards had been actually handed over to the public.