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Wheat mismanagement triggers flour crisis in Pakistan
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
The situation is complicated in Rahim Yar Khan, where families are struggling to cope with daily price shocks, as reported by The Express Tribune.
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Pakistan: State mismanagement triggers looming flour shortage in twin citi
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
According to The Express Tribune, an urgent meeting convened to address the crisis, senior leaders of the Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) sharply criticised the authorities for creating instability instead of resolving long-standing issues. The session, chaired by Chief Patron Tariq
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Pakistan: Punjab's wheat ban pushes Rawalpindi and Islamabad to the brink
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The move has prompted the Flour Mills Association to announce the suspension of flour distribution from Monday, raising alarms of an impending food emergency in Pakistan's twin cities, as reported by The Express Tribune.
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Political incompetence fuels Pakistan's looming food emergency
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Pakistan's wheat management system is once again caught in disarray, reflecting a troubling mix of policy paralysis and administrative failure. In an attempt to rein in surging flour prices, the Sindh cabinet recently approved the release of 1.265 million tonnes of wheat to flour mills at Rs
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Pakistan: Punjab's wheat movement ban sparks flour crisis, provinces prote
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Punjab's curbs on wheat movement have caused flour shortages and soaring prices in other provinces. Critics call the move unconstitutional and against deregulation, while Punjab defends it as essential for food security. KP and Sindh have condemned the restrictions, urging federal interventi
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AAP workers protest in Delhi, criticise Modi government's handling of PoK
Updated : 10 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The workers from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday staged a demonstration at the footbridge near Modi Flour Mills at Okhla in the National Capital, criticising the Modi government on how they handled the situation with Pakistan in relation to the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
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Pakistan: Flour mills postpone nationwide strike
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
The Pakistan Flour Mills group has decided to postpone its strike after sources suggest that the deadlock between the group and the government has come to an end, reported ARY News on Saturday.
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Pak grapples with flour paucity amid millers' strike
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Chairperson of PFMA, Asim Raza said that the measure has made flour mills withholding agents for tax collection. He said the tax is expected to increase flour prices by Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 8 per kg
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Pakistan: Mill owners raise 20 kg flour bag price by PKR 100
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Flour Mills Association President Mian Muhammad Naseem Hasan and Rao Sajid Mahmood said in a statement that due to the poor policies of the caretaker government, the wheat quota has not been provided yet and added that as a result they were forced to buy and sell wheat at high prices from th
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Flour Mills Association of Pakistan announces indefinite shutdown of all m
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Chairman of the Flour Mills Association Chaudhry Aamir in a press conference said that the flour mills will be forced to go on strike from 7 pm on Thursday because the food department has cheated them.
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Pakistanis protest in Khar area, claim denial of free wheat flour
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The demonstration was staged in Pakistan's Civil Colony of Khar amid sloganeering against the food department, flour mills and dealers.
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Pakistan economic crisis: Civil Defence Official among 11 booked for steal
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
An investigation revealed that Omair Nawaz was in charge of the record of tokens being issued to recipients of bags. He confessed to embezzling 7,000 to 8,000 tokens, resulting in a loss to the national exchequer to the tune of Pakistani Rs. 5 to 6 million.
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