LOWER DIR: The district administration and the meals division on Monday began procuring wheat from growers of Punjab.
District meals controller Kashif Ihsan informed reporters that wheat was being bought at Rs3,900 per 40 kilogrammes.
He stated thus far 200 vans loaded with wheat had reached the district from Punjab and different elements of the nation.
He stated deputy commissioner Wasil Khan had constituted a six-member procurement committee that checked the standard and amount of wheat.
Mr Ihsan stated the federal government began procuring wheat from native growers from Could 15, whereas procurement from growers of Punjab began the opposite day.
He stated 500 metric tonnes of wheat could be bought from one farmer, and the cost could be made by way of cross-cheque to make sure transparency.
The meals controller stated substandard wheat wouldn’t be procured. “We are going to buy solely commonplace wheat at official price,” he stated, including 7,000 metric tonnes of wheat could be procured within the district.
In the meantime, wheat sellers on Monday complained the district administration was creating hurdles for them.
Irfanullah, an area grain service provider, alleged he purchased high quality wheat price Rs12 million from farmers in Punjab, and introduced it to Timergara in 4 vans, however the district administration refused to obtain it labelling the grain substandard. He demanded of the administration to make the method straightforward and clear.
JUDICIAL INQUIRY: Social and political activists on Monday demanded judicial inquiry into the mysterious loss of life of a seven-year-old woman at an orphanage-cum-seminary, and threatened to carry individuals onto the roads if the ‘killers’ weren’t arrested inside subsequent 48 hours.
Talking at a press convention, PPP chief Mohammad Hanif Khan, PTI village council chairman Iftikhar Anjum, JI’s former district councillor Bakht Zarin, ANP’s Mohammad Saleem Advocate, Human Rights Fee of Pakistan consultant Jehan Kabir and others alleged the woman was discovered lifeless on the seminary on Could 17 in mysterious circumstances. They stated the medical report and postmortem of the sufferer advised sexual torture that wanted an neutral inquiry.
The sufferer’s father, Sartaj was additionally current.
The police have arrested the seminary head Maulana Ziaul Haq Haidari, his son Abu Bakar and bodyguard, Sanaullah after the woman’s father lodged an FIR.
In response to police sources, a high-level staff led by SP investigations Rashid Ahmad has began probing the case.
Printed in Daybreak, Could twenty eighth, 2024