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Pakistan: 3 injured as protesters scuffle with police over flour distribut
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A scuffle began between police and the protestors when the protestors pelted stones at the police, three were injured. Police resorted to lathi-charged and teargas shells were lobbed to disperse the people. The local residents said that thousands of people from Mera and adjoining areas took
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Pakistan: Four, including police personnel, injured after clashes erupt ov
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Three protesters and a police constable were injured in the clash. Police vehicles were also damaged as protesters pelted stones at them.
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Law and order in Pakistan's Chiniot deteriorates as police officials remai
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Late on Tuesday, six to seven dacoits picketed the canal bridge at Pangu Mor Colony on the Jhang-Chiniot Road and held captive passersby after plundering their valuables.
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Pakistan: Woman, man die, several others get injured in stampedes at flour
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
As per The News International, the first stampede took place in Sahiwal when a large number of people showed up to get free flour with women also standing in long queues. As the time passed on, the crowd became impatient, which caused a stampede with everyone trying to get flour bag.
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Pakistan: Several injured in stampedes as free flour distribution goes awr
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
In Punjab province's Muzaffargarh, at least seven people were injured on Tuesday after a flour distribution centre collapsed due to the huge rush of people.
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Pakistan govt forcing people to beg for flour, says Jamaat-i-Islami
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Darband tehsil chapter has demanded that flour be made available to people all over the nation at subsidised prices and accused the government of humiliating and demeaning the poor, especially women, at flour distribution points.
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Pakistan economic crisis: Stampede at flour bags distribution
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A man was killed in Charsadda, and several others were injured in Swabi and Kohat. Another man in Bannu died after the boundary wall of a flour mill collapsed ahead of flour distribution. In the Hasilpur Tehsil of southern Punjab, at least five women were injured in a stampede at a free flou
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Pakistan: Stampede breaks out in Swabi during distribution of subsidised w
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Residents said that mismanagement marred the distribution of subsidised flour. Riaz Khan said people queued up for flour outside the THQ offices and a stampede occurred when they jumped the queue. He said many people attempted to get more flour.
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