Flour mill strike continues on third day

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00:00On the other hand, against withholding tax, Pakistan's flour mills association is on strike for the third day in a row.

00:06The supply of wheat flour and wheat flour is also shut down.

00:09Madhid from Lahore knows this from his correspondent, Almas Khan.

00:14Like the rest of the country, flour mills are on strike in Lahore today.

00:20Neither grinding was able to be done here yesterday, nor today.

00:23And they are still saying that until the withholding tax is implemented, our strike will continue.

00:31It is not our job to collect tax from people and give it to the government.

00:35The government should do its job.

00:36The government team has requested twice that they be removed from the strike until the 9th or 10th of Muharram.

00:44Pakistan flour mills association is standing in its place.

00:49They are saying that until the government takes this decision, they will remain on strike.

00:54And in Karachi too, a strike is going on against the withholding tax collection of the flour mills association.

00:59The number of flour mills in the city has increased due to the closure of the flour mills.

01:02Day laborers who work in the flour mills have lost their jobs.

01:05Madhid knows this from his correspondent, Anjum Wahab.

01:08Yes, Anjum.

01:09The flour mills in Karachi are closed.

01:11There are more than 100 flour mills that are closed.

01:13And the supply of wheat flour has been affected due to the closure of the flour mills.

01:16But if we look at the other jobs that are related to it, they are also worried.

01:21Wheat has reached Karachi from Sindh.

01:24There are trucks outside the flour mills.

01:26There is also a truck inside the flour mills.

01:28It is filled with wheat sacks.

01:29So it is not being unloaded.

01:31If the withholding tax is paid, then the flour mill owners say that it will be increased by Rs. 8 per kg of flour.

01:36The cheap flour that the people started getting will become expensive again.

01:39We have the driver of the wheat truck with us right now.

01:42We will ask him when he came.

01:44It's been two days since we've been here.

01:46They are not unloading it.

01:48So we are appealing to the government to solve the problem of the flour mills.

01:52And they are unloading our trucks.

01:53The owner of the flour mill said that there is a strike.

01:56We cannot work because of the strike.

01:58Until the withholding tax is not paid, the flour mills will not open.

02:04There will be no supply of flour.

02:06And if there is no flour, there will be more difficulties for the citizens.