The Farmers Union in Pakistan, Kissan Ittehad has announced a nationwide Farmers Protest on May 10 where farmers will take to the streets to express their plight against the wheat mafia amid the wheat crisis in the country.
The protesters claimed that the Pakistan government s free flour scheme was meant for deserving families, those who really need that commodity, but didn t reach all such people
People of Pakistan are in the middle of the country's worst food crisis in history. Fights have started breaking out outside flour distribution centres.
Pakistan's unprecedented crisis of food, stemming from years of economic mismanagement amid country's support for cross-border terrorism, was debated in Islamabad's senate on Friday. Country's opposition leaders targeted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led coalition and held the federal government responsible for the country's ongoing shortage of wheat.