Mill owner kidnapped: Flour shortage feared amid shutdown

QUETTA: Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) Balochistan and Anjuman-e-Tajiran Balochistan (ATB) have threatened to shut down industries across Balochistan if the kidnapped flour mill owner Naqeeblah Agha was not recovered within three days.

“There could be a shortage of flour in Quetta and other parts of the province if we shut down flour mills,” PFMA chairman Syed Zahoor Agha told reporters on Friday.

ATB president Abdul Rahim Kakar said many traders and industrialists have been kidnapped and even killed, but no action has been taken against the criminals.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 20^th, 2012.