Haripur flour millers call off strike.

HARIPUR -- Three days after going on strike, flour millers announced resumption of their business here on Thursday and agreed to collect the quota of subsidised wheat as the local administration accepted their demands.

District food controller Shiraz Anwar confirmed the development and said the millers had called off the strike immediately.

Tahir Mahmood of the Haripur Flour Mills Association told Dawn that local millers had been observing a strike since Monday against their 'harassment' by officers of the local administration through heavy fines over petty issues and surprise visits during odd times and that, too, without being accompanied by officials of the food department.

He said all 12 mills, which used to supply 10,300 bags of subsidised flour to the people in the district, hadn't lifted their wheat quota and thus, causing a flour shortage.

The millers had alleged that a woman assistant commissioner was 'punishing' them for contributing less funds for the Turkiye earthquake relief programme than what she had asked for.

Officials of the district administration held talks with leaders of the Hazara Flour Mills Association and Haripur Flour Mills Association on Thursday afternoon.

Mr Tahir said the administration had assured millers that it won't conduct visits to...