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Festival-time woes of Pakistan's religious minorities continue amid soarin
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
40 per cent inflation drains the festive spirit of Ramzan, Holi and Lenten in Pakistan with its religious minorities among the worst sufferers of the current economic slowdown.
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People in PoK grapple with multi-faceted crisis
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The impact of Pakistan's economic downfall is far-reaching and devastating. The situation for people in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), who were already grappling with a multi-faceted crisis, has worsened quickly.
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Flour crisis hits people in Pakistan hard during Ramzan
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Scores of people have suffered injuries and millions have been coming back to their homes without a fistful of wheat flour.
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Protests erupt in PoK as residents grapple with economic, flour crisis
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Frustrated residents in the illegally-occupied region of Muzaffarabad staged a protest against the spike in the prices of flour, according to Pakistan's vernacular media Kashmir Dharti, Siasat.
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Pakistan: Several political parties stage protests against flour shortage,
Updated : 3 years, 2 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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Pakistan: Food supply at risk as banks reluctant to open letters of credit
Updated : 3 years, 2 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, 2 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, 2 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, 2 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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Traders, shopkeepers hold protests against price hike, flour shortage in K
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Due to a surge in price and shortage of wheat flour, a large number of people, including traders and shopkeepers staged protests here, The News reported on Wednesday.
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Pakistan flour crisis worsens; prices skyrocket amidst wheat shortage, sta
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Tens of thousands spend hours daily to get the subsidized bags of flour that are already short in supply in the market. Chaotic scenes are often witnessed as people gather around vehicles pushing each other as the mini-trucks and vans escorted by armed guards go about distributing the flour.
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Terror threat to Chinese engineers, protest against wheat and electricity
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Thousands of people and leaders and activists belonging to Awami Action Committee, Anjuman-e-Tajiran, transporters associations, Gilgit-Pakhtun Welfare Organisation, Karakoram National Movement, Balawaristan National Front, Hotel Association, Shopping Malls Association and various political
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