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Flour millers protest Sindh's wheat policy, allege subsidy favouring trade
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Flour mill operators have expressed their dissatisfaction with the Sindh government's inconsistent approach of providing a restricted wheat quota to millers under the Wheat Food Policy for FY25-26, while offering an unrestricted supply to traders, as reported by Dawn.
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Protests erupt in PoGB over Finance Act 2023, subsidy issue
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
The Awami Action Committee (AAC) staged a significant protest today in Yaseen Valley, located in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB), to voice strong opposition to the Finance Act 2023 and the administrative decision to reduce the wheat quota allocated to the region.
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PoGB: Protesters demand action on wheat quota cuts, substandard flour supp
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Locals and members of the Tahafuz Wheat Movement staged a protest outside the Gilgit Press Club in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan, voicing their concerns over a significant reduction in the wheat quota and the distribution of substandard flour in the region, according to Pamir Times.
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Awami Action Committee protests against tax hikes, wheat supply failures i
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
The demonstration was in response to the imposition of new taxes, a reduction in the wheat quota for July, and a failure to supply wheat for the past two months.
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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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PoK's residents' cries are unheard beyond Gilgit-Baltistan: Report
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) Gilgit-Baltistan region are now asserting themselves against the hegemony of Pakistan with mass protests against electricity shortages, reduction in the wheat quota, taxation, and land grabbing, however, their cries are unheard beyond the moun
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Awami Action Committee stages protest against cut in wheat quota, impositi
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The protestors alleged that the Pakistan authorities arrested the Chairman AAC, Fidah Hussain and several other AAC leaders, who were protesting "peacefully".
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