So where is the Aatta 'wheat flour' crowd now?

burqaposhx · January 24, 2008, 4:33pm

Re: So where is the Aatta ‘wheat flour’ crowd now?

first of all i am a girl!
just because you post a stupid site doesn’t mean i encourage you by posting sites to prove myself and let you drag this on and on even if you go completely the wrong way.
you can find links to watch Geo, Ary online if you really want the sites that is.
People who are hungry, who cannot afford anything as it is have to now first search for the darn aata and then get insulted by the rangers and then pay prices which is out of their reach just to feed themselves and their kids are the real source why dont you go and see it for yourself rather then fight just because you have an article and ridiculous picture which is by the group who probably cannot bother about all the people but bas MQM aur MUshie ki daag dhabbay wali kameez saaf karo :s

There is no denying that flour prices have impacted people. But so have the petrol prices. Unfortunately they have hit hard the poorest of the poor.

Pak government has tried three things to deal with this.

Use paramilitary rangers to monitor flour mills (And Balochi mills refused to collect 39% of their allocated wheat stocks). You figure out why?
They have bought 500,000 tonnes of wheat from European markets.
Starting a ration card system for the poor.

Care to add anything more to it that Pak government must do to make you happy?

Ration card system on the anvil
The News International: Latest News Breaking, World, Entertainment, Royal News
ISLAMABAD: The cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposal to issue ration cards for flour, sugar, pulses and edible oils for the poor and lower middle class so that they might get daily use items at affordable rates from the utility stores.

“Prime Minister Muhammadmian Soomro has directed the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock to formulate a mechanism to issue ration cards for the poor and lower middle class to facilitate them having the daily use items from the utility stores at subsidized rates,” said Caretaker Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Nisar A Memon while briefing the newsmen here Tuesday regarding the cabinet meeting that was chaired by caretaker Prime Minister Mohammadmian Soomro.

Pakistan buys around 500,000T wheat

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
HAMBURG: Pakistan has purchased around 500,000 tonnes of wheat in a tender for up to 610,000 tonnes which closed last week, European traders said on Tuesday.