ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has fulfilled his promise of providing flour at discounted price to the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with flour being supplied at Rs40 per kg.

Sharing the details of this initiative, Marriyum Aurangzeb said the provision of flour at discounted price to the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would be ensured at the PM’s signature ‘Shehbaz Speed’. She said the supply of flour at Rs40 per kg had already started in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In a statement issued here on Wednesday, she said for expedient and effective realization of the PM’s initiative for the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 100 Mobile Stores had been launched and the province had been divided into two zones vis-à-vis Abbottabad and Peshawar zone for this purpose.

She assured that this systematic supply of flour at discounted price will be gradually extended to the entire Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The Information Minister said that so far more than 50,000 bags of flour had been sold in Abbottabad and Peshawar zones in line with PM Shehbaz’s initiative.

Flour at discounted price was being provided through separate mobile stores in Abbottabad and Peshawar zones, she added. She said in Abbottabad alone, 22,070 flour bags at the discounted price of Rs40 per kg were sold over the last two days.

Meanwhile, more than 23,400 bags were sold to the people in the Peshawar zone during the same time. The Minister said that the number of mobile stores would be increased to 200 by June 13th, so that more people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa could benefit from the Rs40 per kg flour.

She said, in addition to this, temporary flour selling points in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would also be operational by June 9th and by June 17 and they would increase to 500, to further facilitate the process.

Marriyum Aurangzeb said, in line with the vision and promise by PM Shehbaz, there would be more than 2000 selling points in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province at 993 locations where people would be able to buy flour at the discounted price.

She said the Prime Minister had fulfilled his promise with the brave people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, who had suffered under an incompetent regime for 8 years that had stalled welfare and progress in their province. She pledged that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will continue to take more of such initiatives for the welfare and betterment of the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.