QUETTA:Minister for Food, Mir Asadullah Baloch, has said that acute deficiency of fertilizer in the province might prove to be catastrophic, adding that Federal Government and Frontier Corps (FC), Balochistan were being contacted to take immediate steps in order to thwart the smuggling of fertilizer to neighbouring countries.
Addressing a press conference in his office at Balochistan Civil Secretariat here on Tuesday, he said that Balochistan province, particularly Naseerabad region, was facing acute dearth of fertilizer as main companies of fertilizers were involved in illegal smuggling of fertilizers to neighbouring country Afghanistan.
He added that the issue had been brought into the notice of Prime Minister Imran Khan and federal government, adding,” We are political people and will always raise voice for the rights of the people of Balochistan”.