SARGODHA: The district administration has created fertiliser crisis in Sargodha and Khushab by harassing traders through unnecessarily raids, arrests, sealing of shops and lodging of FIRs.

According to Fertiliser Dealers Association leader Malik Mazhar Awan, traders were not plunderers. `We are taxpayers and wellwishers of Pakistan.

Awan said price control magistrates had taken charge of dealers`shops.