Flour factories across Pakistan started an endless cross-country strike on Thursday to fight a 5 percent keeping charge. Aamir Abdullah, Director of the Pakistan Flour Factories Affiliation (PFMA), scrutinized the public authority for forcing the assessment, successful on July 1, 2024, without speaking with industry partners. He brought up that the flour factories, currently under critical taxation rates, can’t bear the cost of extra duties.
Before the strike, flour factory delegates attempted to draw in with government authorities and applicable specialists from July 3 onwards however got no reaction. Abdullah pronounced, “We have started a cross-country strike from Thursday for an endless period until our requests are met.” He noticed that 2,000 flour plants, incorporating 250 in Sindh, have stopped tasks in fight.
This closure has halted the circulation of flour and wheat items the nation over. Abdullah accentuated the fortitude among flour factories in Pakistan and cautioned that the public authority’s choice would raise the cost of flour, a fundamental food thing that had as of late become more reasonable. He likewise communicated worries about a potential flour emergency in Karachi and different pieces of the country because of the strike.
Abdullah featured that north of 100 flour plants in Karachi supply 70 to 80 packs of wheat flour every day, and their conclusion has upset the stock to bread production lines and lodgings. “Recently, we quit washing wheat, and today (Thursday), flour plants stopped wheat processing,” he said.