Search For "wheat"
Pakistan: People in Gilgit-Baltistan protest in streets, demand wheat flou
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
This comes as Pakistan faces an economic crisis. Citizens hit by floods and the country's food crisis have long remained silent witnesses to the failure of leadership at all levels.
Read More
Gilgit-Baltistan reels under the mismanagement by Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Gilgit-Baltistan is currently in a serious financial crisis and seeking the release of funds from the federal government.
Read More
Pakistan facing net wheat deficit of 2.37 million metric tons, says food m
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Pakistan National Assembly member and Minister for National Food Security and Research Tariq Bashir Cheema in a statement during question hour in the upper house of parliament said that Islamabad, at present, is facing a net wheat deficit of 2.37 million metric tons, pointing out at the Sout
Read More
Open market sale of wheat to contain prices to begin on Feb 1
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution earlier this week announced it will offload 30 lakh tonnes of wheat from the central pool in the markets to contain domestic prices.
Read More
Govt to offload 30 lakh tonne wheat in open markets to contain rising pric
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
To address the rising price of wheat and its derivative wheat flour in the country, the Group of Ministers headed by Home Minister Amit Shah met today and discussed the buffer stock position of the foodgrain.
Read More
Pakistan: Police lathi-charge crowd which stormed truck with subsidised wh
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The police on Saturday lathi-charged a crowd, which stormed a truck loaded with subsidised wheat flour bags and pelted its driver and policemen with stones, reported Dawn newspaper.
Read More
Pakistan: Protests in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swabi over flour shortage, infl
Updated : 3 years, 2 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.
Read More
Pakistan: People chase wheat truck on bikes as food crisis deepens
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In a video shared on social media, some people riding a motorcycle are seen chasing a truck carrying sacks of flour, and people can be seen chasing the vehicle to buy the lot. One of the chasers coming closer to the wheat truck shows the note and asks for a packet of flour.
Read More
Amid wheat crisis, Pak farmers urge govt to impose 'agricultural emergency
Updated : 3 years, 2 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.
Read More
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
Read More
Traders, shopkeepers hold protests against price hike, flour shortage in K
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Due to a surge in price and shortage of wheat flour, a large number of people, including traders and shopkeepers staged protests here, The News reported on Wednesday.
Read More
Pakistan flour crisis worsens; prices skyrocket amidst wheat shortage, sta
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Tens of thousands spend hours daily to get the subsidized bags of flour that are already short in supply in the market. Chaotic scenes are often witnessed as people gather around vehicles pushing each other as the mini-trucks and vans escorted by armed guards go about distributing the flour.
Read More