{
  "id": 16154354,
  "title": "Growers critcise PTB for failing to purchase surplus tobacco",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/growers-critcise-ptb-for-failing-to-purchase-surplus-tobacco",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T04:16:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn - Pakistan",
    "slug": "dawn-pakistan",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2039099/growers-critcise-ptb-for-failing-to-purchase-surplus-tobacco"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "SWABI: The Pakistan Tobacco Board (PTB) has failed to adopt a strategy to purchase surplus tobacco from growers despite the passage of 36 days since the regular buying season ended, it was learnt. Sources in multinational and national companies said that tobacco purchasing was stopped on Sept 15 as the firms had completed their quota for the current year announced by PTB. The sources said PTB’s…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}