Lorai News
The difficulties for Pakistan, which is facing economic crisis, are not taking the name of abatement. Due to the shortage of wheat in Pakistan, there is a huge shortage. Due to the acute shortage of wheat, the prices of flour in Pakistan are skyrocketing. People’s pockets are already empty due to severe economic crisis. In this inflation, the government is distributing flour for free under subsidy to provide flour to the people. But the crowd for subsidized flour is so huge that people are dying due to the stampede.
According to the news agency, in Pakistan’s Muzaffargarh province, a woman who came to collect the flour being distributed free of cost by the government was crushed to death in a stampede. The age of the woman is said to be 60 years. After this, angry people created a lot of ruckus. Earlier on Monday also, a 50-year-old woman who had come to Muzaffargarh to collect flour had died during a stampede.
Pakistan’s government officials have said on Saturday that at least four elderly people have died while trying to get free flour from government distribution centers in Pakistan’s Punjab province in the last few days. The official said that to overcome the skyrocketing inflation, the free flour scheme was started for the poor in the Punjab province.
Women block road after shortage of flour in Peshawar
According to the report, after not getting subsidized flour in Peshawar, Pakistan, women blocked the road. Apart from this, the agitators also attacked the nearby restaurants. Holding the restaurants responsible for the shortage of flour in the country, the agitators are saying that the common citizen is not able to buy flour and the restaurants are serving delicious dishes.
flour shortage in pakistan
The price of flour is skyrocketing in many other provinces of the country including Karachi, the main city of Pakistan. For the first time in the history of Pakistan, the price of 20 kg wheat flour packet has reached Rs 3,100. Flour is being sold up to Rs 155 a kg in Karachi. According to a report by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, a packet of flour has become costlier by Rs 200 in Multan and Rs 100 in Peshawar in a week.
financial condition of pakistan
Pakistan is facing severe economic crisis for the last few months. Pakistan’s economy is in a complete state of disarray due to huge shortage of foreign exchange reserves, high inflation rate and sharp fall in Pakistani currency. The situation has become such that due to the shortage of foreign exchange, the Pakistan government has given the Haj quota of about 90 thousand Pakistani citizens to Pakistanis living abroad, so that $ 400 million can be saved.