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Pakistan: Police lathi-charge crowd which stormed truck with subsidised wh
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The police on Saturday lathi-charged a crowd, which stormed a truck loaded with subsidised wheat flour bags and pelted its driver and policemen with stones, reported Dawn newspaper.
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Pakistan: Protests in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swabi over flour shortage, infl
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Jamaat-i-Islami leaders said that lawmakers were accusing each other of the country's difficult situation and not taking measures for people's welfare.
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PoK: 4 homes destroyed, 40 partially damaged in lake outburst in Daimer
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Two lake outbursts in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) Diamer's Tangir Valley have resulted in the complete destruction of four homes and around 40 homes partially damaged.
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US: 19 killed, several remain without power as storm hits flooded Californ
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
As the storm in California continues to wreak havoc in California, it has already claimed 19 lives and as many as 400,000 had been without power at some point during the downpour, The Hill reported.
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Pakistan: People chase wheat truck on bikes as food crisis deepens
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
In a video shared on social media, some people riding a motorcycle are seen chasing a truck carrying sacks of flour, and people can be seen chasing the vehicle to buy the lot. One of the chasers coming closer to the wheat truck shows the note and asks for a packet of flour.
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Pakistan: Several political parties stage protests against flour shortage,
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Workers of Shia Ulema Council and Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party took out processions and held demonstrations at the press club in Larkana.
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Pak consulate in China brings up "freedom" of Uyghur community, Islamabad
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Pakistan Consulate tweet referred to Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs being thankful to China for support to flood victims and then mentioned concerns regarding the Uyghur community. Islamabad said account was hacked.
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Flood disaster relief efforts help cash-strapped Pakistan mobilise interna
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
According to the Geo-politik, Pakistan, which has severely mismanaged its economy, has now used the pretext of flood devastation and consequent humanitarian crisis to get international assistance.
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Pakistan: Food supply at risk as banks reluctant to open letters of credit
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The inability of banks to open LC's despite the State Bank of Pakistan's (SBP) directives about import facilitation, poses a threat to the supply of food, as well as, could escalate price pressures and create a shortage of medications.
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Amid wheat crisis, Pak farmers urge govt to impose 'agricultural emergency
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Amid the ongoing wheat crisis in Pakistan, the farmer's body, Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI) on Wednesday urged the authorities to impose an agricultural emergency in the country, The Express Tribune reported.
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Pakistan: HRCP says inflation, food shortages leading steadily to 'human r
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The HRCP said that labourer Harsingh Kohli's death is not the first casualty of the food security crisis until the government prioritises the equitable distribution of food at affordable prices across the nation.
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Viral video claims Pakistan's food crisis 'state-manufactured'
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
In one of the several videos that have gone viral in Pakistan following the outbreak of an unprecedented food crisis, a man recording the video showing the purported stacks of wheat sacks, has accused the ruling dispensation of opacity and said the current crisis was a 'state-manufactured cr
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