In the video, persons are seen chasing a truck carrying sacks of flour amid the deepening meals disaster in Pakistan.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 15, 2023 14:36 IST
A person carries sacks of flour of his shoulder, whereas others stand in queue in Peshawar, Pakistan. (File photograph: Reuters)
By India Today Web Desk: Amid the deepening meals disaster in Pakistan, folks had been lately seen chasing a wheat truck on foot and on bikes, risking their lives to get a bag of wheat.
Sharing the video on Twitter, Professor Sajjad Raja, chairman of National Equality Party Jammu Kashmir Gilgit Baltistan and Ladakh (JKGBL), wrote, “This is not a motorcycle rally, but people in Pakistan are chasing a truck loaded with flour, in the hope that they will buy just one packet of flour. Do we have any future in Pakistan? This video is just a glimpse of what is happening in Pakistan.”
In the video, persons are seen chasing a truck carrying sacks of flour. One of the lads comes nearer to the wheat truck, reveals cash, and asks for a packet of flour.
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The hovering flour costs is without doubt one of the crises that Pakistan faces because it reels underneath the heft of a crumbling financial system. A 15kg flour bag is being offered for Rs 2,050, after a rise of Rs 150. So far, the value of a 15kg flour bag has seen an increase of Rs 300 in simply two weeks. Whereas, within the open market, the costs stay unchanged, reported ARY News.
The authorities has additionally failed to offer its folks with fundamental facilities, which has compelled the residents to make use of plastic baggage to meet their LPG (cooking gasoline) wants.
Appalling as it could sound, Pakistanis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are utilizing plastic baggage to retailer LPG as a dip within the inventory of cooking gasoline cylinders has pressured the distributors to chop quick the availability.
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Cash-strapped Pakistan is desperately searching for assist. Successive governments have did not shore up multilateral or bilateral help to fulfill overseas funds.
With extraordinarily excessive inflation, dangerously low overseas change reserves, and world lenders just like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) refusing to disperse additional funds, Pakistan’s financial system is in dire straits.
Pakistan’s inflation fee reached 24.5 per cent in December final 12 months due to an enormous spike within the costs of meals merchandise.
Wheat – a vital staple meals of an amazing majority of Pakistanis – is now getting out of attain for a lot of Pakistanis. Its costs elevated over 57% whereas the wheat flour costs additionally elevated elevated by 41%, in response to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
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Jan 15, 2023
