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Unprecedented shortage of wheat may lead to anarchy in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The Pakistani media is filled with tragic stories of chaos and stampedes in markets coming from several areas covering all the provinces. As per a recent report in the prominent Pakistani newspaper 'The Express Tribune', thousands flock to the markets and spend hours every day for the subsid
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Red Lantern Analytica holds webinar on Pakistan's food crisis
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Dr Marium Kamal began the session by making a distinction between 'Food Crisis and Food Security.' She said that everything is available on the ground. However, the prices of products are high.
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Pakistan has no food for its poor but purchases weapons
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The army, responsible for much of what is horribly wrong in Pakistan, cannot deny that it has fattened up on what has been snatched from the people.
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Inflation, devaluation of rupee 'real concerns' in Pakistan: Officials
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Pakistan and United States officials said that the potential food crisis, Ukraine war, inflation and devaluation of the rupee are the 'real concerns' in Islamabad, Dawn reported.
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USD 10 billion payouts: Will Pakistan be able to redeem itself or default
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The burning question is - given the generous donation of the international community, will Pakistan be able to redeem itself or default again and remain a global joke?
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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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Pak reels as prices of essential food items head north: Report
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Factors such as higher import and transportation costs, crop availability, demand and supply gap, hoarding, exchange rate issues, and the ongoing economic crisis have resulted in uncontrolled inflation in Pakistan, even on essential food items, the Dawn reported, adding that the condition wa
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Pakistan plans to buy wheat from Russia, says envoy to Moscow
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 17 (ANI): Heavily impacted by the unprecedented floods throughout the country, Pakistan is now planning to buy wheat from sanction-hit Russia amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
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Wheat rots reportedly in government godowns in Balochistan amid dire food
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], October 8 (ANI): Amid the flour crisis for over the past three weeks in Pakistan, several pictures, which reportedly have emerged of a government food warehouse located on Band Road in Pishin district in Balochistan, depicting the possible wheat crisis in the country.
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Pakistan: Flour crisis continues in Balochistan amid inflation
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], September 18 (ANI): Amid the ongoing inflation in the country, Balochistan province is facing a flour crisis for over past three weeks, with mill owners blaming the provincial government for failing to procure the required wheat this year, local media reported on Sunday.
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Pakistan floods: Protest breaks out against administration after 6-year-ol
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 11 (ANI): Around 200 flood-affected families protested in Sukkur city of Sindh province after a six-year-old girl reportedly died of starvation and illness at a makeshift shelter near a filling station on the National Highway in the Patni area on Friday.
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Hunger, diseases rife in Pakistan as flood-victims forced to live under sk
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 5 (ANI): Record monsoon and heavy floods in Pakistan has given rise to hunger and various illnesses which have affected 660,120 people since July and the experts believe that the situation would aggravate in the coming days as the flood affectees are forced to
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