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MANSEHRA: On Sunday, the price of a 20-kilogram bag of wheat flour rose by Rs 400 after local millers stopped supplying the product to wholesalers.
“Prices of both fine and super-fine flour varieties have surged by Rs400 per 20kg bag as millers have suspended supply to wholesalers,” Fayyaz Ahmad, the proprietor of a general shop, told reporters on Sunday.
He claimed that despite the start of the wheat harvest in the Hazara division, the millers abruptly stopped supplying the dealers with flour.
According to him, “We are now selling flour bags arriving in the local bazaars through smuggling from Punjab at higher prices because wholesalers charge us extra amounts as truckers have to pay bribes to the officials at checkposts,”
According to Mr. Ahmad, the price of a 20 kg bag of fine grade flour, which was formerly Rs2,950, has now increased to Rs3,350, while that of super fine quality has increased from Rs2,850 to Rs3,250.
Another seller claimed that due to the government’s free flour programme being implemented throughout the fasting month, the price of wheat flour remained stable.
He said that the Punjab government, despite the “record” amount of wheat produced this season, had prohibited its delivery to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, worsening the already precarious situation in the region.
To check for flour hoarding, district administration officers also made unannounced trips to nearby bazaars.
On Sunday, additional assistant commissioner Qamar Zia Malik made unannounced trips to godowns to verify the supply of wheat and sugar.
According to Mr. Malik, who spoke to reporters, “the district administration is vigilant and will not permit anyone to hoard or create an artificial shortage of wheat flour in the markets.”
A little child was murdered on Sunday in the Murad Pura neighbourhood of this city by a speeding car.
Eight-year-old Abdul Hadee was struck by the car as he crossed the street.
Locals hurried him to a hospital nearby, where medical staff pronounced him dead.
The motorist was able to get away.
Rescue 1122 kept looking for the Afghan boy’s body who drowned in the Siren River in the Khaki region the other day.
Mohammad Waris, 14, and his two friends vanished in the flood.
