MANSEHRA, Jan 16: NWFP Caretaker Minister for Food Alamzeb Khan has blamed the flour crisis on hoarders and profiteers, saying that the Frontier Constabulary would be deployed at the flour mills to overcome the shortage.

“The mill owners are directly involved in the artificial shortage of the flour because they want to get their wheat quotas increased, but the government will not allow them to play foul with the people”, he said while talking to Dawn here on Wednesday.