Excise duty on food items should be abolished and utility store system should be reformed, economist. Photo: File Due to the bad economic situation in the country, limited sources of income, low salary and unemployment problems have severely affected the purchasing power of the middle and poor classes. Flour, ghee, oil, pulses are expensive in…
Lahore: In Punjab, every person with ID card above 18 years of age has been declared eligible to get free flour. The system of providing targeted food subsidy only to deserving families by providing free flour in the province has been done away with and under the new system free flour is provided to all…
60-year-old Zahra Bibi died in Muzaffargarh due to a stampede while getting free flour while 66-year-old Elahi Bakhsh died of heart attack while standing in line to get flour in Bhagar. According to details, a 60-year-old woman was killed in a stampede at the flour point in Tehsil Jatoi of Muzaffargarh. Later, the Caretaker Chief…
The Prime Minister directed to make a comprehensive strategy for the supply of free flour as soon as possible: Photo: File Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif approved the provision of free flour to poor families in Punjab under the Ramadan package. In the meeting presided over by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the supply of free…
After Pakistan, the prices of flour in the neighboring country India also started to be out of reach of the people. In India, the world’s most populous country, the price of flour increased by 40% in one year.In the month of January alone, the price of flour has increased twice, which has left the people…
