Harnai woolen mills reopening demanded

PHE Minister Dummar moves resolution, says it will help in creating job opportunities

QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding that the federal government reopen the closed Harnai woolen mills for boosting economic activities and providing employment opportunities to local people.

The resolution was moved by Public Health Engineering Minister Noor Muhammad Dummar in the session presided over by Speaker Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo on Saturday.

It said that with the colure of the woolen mills in Harnai in 2004, a large number of people were left jobless and the economy was badly affected.

Speaking in the house, the PHE minister said the then federal government had closed the mills without any justification. He said that the mill was producing best quality woolen cloth as the raw material was available in the area.

Dummar said that the provincial assembly had earlier passed resolutions demanding resumption of operation of the mills but no response had been received from Islamabad.

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Parliamentary leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind said a committee of the provincial assembly should be formed to ascertain who was responsible for not implementing the resolutions adopted in the past.

Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) leader Sanaullah Baloch, Pashtunkhwa Mili Awami Party’s (PkMAP) Nasrullah Zeray, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal’s (MMA) Maulana Abdul Wahid Siddique and Balochistan Awami Party’s (BAP) Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran also supported the resolution.

The house also adopted another resolution moved by the PHE minister, demanding that the federal government should immediately issue tenders for the construction of roads from Ziarat Mor to Kach and Harnai to Sanjavi.

It also demanded that the Centre should give approval of the construction of a road from Kach to Ziarat, Sanjavi and Loralai.