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Pakistan: Several injured after mob storms flour distribution point in Man
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
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."
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Pak: Flour prices to spike as govt, millers lock horns over movement of wh
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
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
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Free flour quota for Pak's Dera Ghazi Khan division insufficient to meet d
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
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.
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Flour crisis hits people in Pakistan hard during Ramzan
Updated : 3 years, 1 month 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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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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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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Dollar black market in Pakistan flourishes again
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
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.
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Pakistan: Protests in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swabi over flour shortage, infl
Updated : 3 years, 4 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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Pakistan: Several political parties stage protests against flour shortage,
Updated : 3 years, 4 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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Amid wheat crisis, Pak farmers urge govt to impose 'agricultural emergency
Updated : 3 years, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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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