Prices rise amid flour mills strike

QUETTA: The price of flour climbed up to Rs400 to Rs500 following a strike and closure of flour mills who demanded the government to lift the ban on inter-district supply of wheat in Balochistan.

The Pakistan Flour Mills Association’s Balochistan chapter had shut down their flour mills in wake of their reservations over the aforementioned ban, alleging the government for not showing a serious response towards the growing flour crisis in the province.

Flour mills closed in Punjab, K-P, Balochistan

The Flour Association has been blaming the provincial government and food department for neglecting the crisis, demanding immediate action in order to ease public woes as inflation is already pestering paupers in Balochistan.

Corroborating the crisis, former Chairman of Pakistan Flour Mills Association, Badar udd Din Kakar has said, “In the beginning of flour crisis, we had called for government’s attention but they didn’t take it seriously.”

Published in The Express Tribune, June 6^th, 2020.