Wholesale
market flour price swirls up by Rs7 per kg
KARACHI: The flour price today in the wholesale
market here went boomingly up by Rs7 per kilogram,
following the completion of three-day mourning
of the martyrdom of the former prime minister,
Benazir Bhutto. With the opening of the wholesale
market today, a flour bag of 80 kg was selling
at Rs1800 recording a whopping increase by Rs190
and thus the per kg price of flour has jumped
up by Rs7 to reach at Rs25. Traders attributed
this phenomenal rise in the flour price to the
gaping breach in the demand and supply. They
said that the flour supply in the market was
lukewarm and the traders were forced to sell
flour from their old stocks.