In Pakistan, armed guards now protect wheat deliveries as food crisis worsens (video screenshot)
(INDIA.COM) – Amid massive food crisis, stampedes were reported in Pakistan’s markets due to shortage of wheat in different parts of the country. Stampedes have been reported from markets in several areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan provinces. The local media blames the administration for the crisis, saying there has been a total mismanagement both by the the food department and flour mills.
As per reports, the prices of wheat flour, which is one of the key constituents of a regular diet as it is used to make chapati or roti, have soared amid the acute shortage of wheat. In Karachi, flour prices rose as high as Rs 140/kg to Rs 160/kg. In several other parts of the country, a 10 kg bag of flour is costing people around Rs 1,500 and a 20 kg bag at Rs 2,800.
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According to a report published in a Pakistani daily ‘The Express Tribune’, thousands of people stand in serpentine queues and spend hours to get the subsidized bags of flour as they are short in supply in the normal market. One of the ministers in the Balochistan province, Zamarak Achakzai, said in a report that the food crisis might worsen, as the wheat stocks in some regions have completely exhausted.
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