According to witnesses, people flocked to the designated health centre to receive free flour under a government scheme and went on a rampage due to the "delayed and unjust distribution."
As the food department continued to take action against the unauthorised movement of wheat on Friday, it became apparent that the dispute between the provincial government and the flour millers over the shunting of wheat to Karachi from interior parts of the province may increase the price o
Pakistan's Dera Ghazi Khan division's Commissioner said that the allocated quota of free flour for deserving dwellers of the Dera Ghazi Khan division was 500,000 bags, whereas the actual demand is 850,000 flour bags.
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.
The gap between the Pakistani rupee's value in the interbank and open markets is rising again, creating a black market where the dollar is being traded at a much higher price, the Dawn reported.
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.
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.
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.
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