LAHORE: Protesting against the Punjab Food Authority’s (PFA) raids, all milk sellers in the provincial capital stopped supply of around five-million-litre milk and took rallies from Thokar Naiz Baig to in front of Punjab Assembly.
The protesting milkmen also unload milk filled tankers outside the Punjab Assembly. The daylong complete shutter down of milk shops and protests of thousands of milk suppliers and milkmen along with dozens of milk supplying vessels and tankers forced the government to bow down.
The Milk Sales and Suppliers Association of Punjab held talks with govt team including Secretary Livestock Nasim Sadiq, IG Punjab and Lahore DCO Capt (r) Muhammad Usman.
According to the milkmen association, the government agreed to form a committee to revaluate the milk rates after conducting detailed survey and actual cost within two days. The government also accepted that the FIRs by the PFA against milk suppliers, who were involved in adulteration, would be quashed, it added.
