QUETTA: The flour crisis in Balochistan has intensified despite the provincial food department having had 800,000 wheat bags in stock. Officials revealed that no wheat was procured during March and April this year, and even the existing old stock was sold out. As a result, the province now has no wheat reserves left. The shortage … Read more
The subsidy will be provided on five essential items The number of utility stores in Karachi will be expanded Mobile units have set up in Balochistan and remote areas ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday decided to provide subsidy on five essential items including wheat flour, sugar, ghee/edible oil, and pulses during the next … Read more
COLOMBO: The International Monetary Fund warned crisis-hit Sri Lanka on Thursday that its foreign debt was ‘unsustainable’, and called for devaluation and higher taxes to revive the almost bankrupt economy. The pandemic pushed the South Asian Island’s tourism sector, a key foreign-exchange earner, off a cliff, and the government in March 2020 imposed a broad … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Expressing concern over the wheat crisis, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Vice President Senator Sherry Rehman on Monday said this winter masses would neither have gas, nor wheat flour for cooking. “While the country struggles with a crippling gas deficit, this winter the last staple left to eat is also under threat: roti,” Sherry Rehman … Read more
Chief Minister of Punjab (CM) Sardar Usman Buzdar on Monday has summoned important session on flour crisis in the province. According to the details, CM Usman Buzdar will get briefing from the provincial food minister Sami Ullah Chaudhary on the shortage of flour. He will also issue directives to overcome the crisis. Earlier, Chief Minister … Read more
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday summoned the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the federal cabinet. The Economic Coordination Committee is expected to discuss a proposal for importing wheat in order to avert a looming wheat shortage in the country. According to a report, the government has decided to consider the proposal to save consumers … Read more
Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar conducted raids at various sale points of flour in Jaranwala. CM Usman Buzdar took an action and suspended officials of provincial food department besides making an assistant commissioner as OSD. He received complaints of local people about shortage of flour stock. Later, the Chief Minister said there is adequate stock … Read more
Nanbais in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s area of Kohat and Hazara Division observe strike against shortage of flour and to increase price of naan and roti here on Monday. Nanbais Association President said the sack of 85kg flour now sold at Rs.52,00 in the area. We are unable to sell the naan and roti in this regard, … Read more
The rise in the price of wheat flour across the country and its acute shortage in several cities has brought severe crisis for the general public. The growers hold the flour mill owners and the government responsible for the “Flour crisis”. In Lahore, people are forced to buy flour at highest-ever price of up to … Read more
Special Assistant to Prime Minister, Firdous Ashiq Awan, said some elements have continued negative propaganda regarding wheat flour prices. Firdous Ashiq said she has given the task to deal with the matter related to the artificial crisis of wheat flour in Punjab. Firdous Ashiq addressed a press conference in Sialkot today. She was of the … Read more
