HYDERABAD (March 18 2004): A large number of wheat traders from Balochistan and lower Punjab were here, in Hyderabad, with a view to sign contracts for supply of wheat from the new wheat crop.

These traders were here in the hope that they would be able to buy the new crop at low rates, direct from the growers, and carry those by road to their destinations in Balochistan and Punjab.

Many of the goods transporters had reportedly assured the traders that they would carry wheat to their destinations without any difficulty, though the Sindh provincial authorities were maintaining a strict watch on wheat movement by private parties without authorisation.

Courtesy Business Recorder