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Pakistan’s ongoing wheat crisis led to a grim picture showing people fighting and crying over bags of flour. A provoking video shows a large number of people in Sindh fighting over subsidized bags of flour as the country grapples with a crushing economic and food crisis for months.
A video from Sindh shows the desperation on people’s faces. A bag of flour costs Rs 1,500 per kg in Islamabad and Peshawar and locals spend hours to get their hands on a bag of subsidized wheat that quickly runs out of stock.
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A man is seen fallen on the road struggling to hold on to a bag of flour as someone else tries of take it off of him. He wails out in agony as the bag is being taken away by two others.
The 15kg flour bag is being sold for Rs 2,050 now. So far, the price of a 15kg flour bag has seen a rise of Rs 300 in just two weeks.
“आटा ख़त्म…Gate बंद…”
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— Jyot Jeet (@activistjyot) January 10, 2023
Another shocking video shows people chasing the subsidized consignment flour truck as it halts. With money in their hands, a growing crowd pleads to the men on the truck to give them a bag as the workers say to “shut the door” and the stock was apparently over.
