Pakistan: Inflation touches 29.8 per cent amid rise in food, energy pricesIn Pakistan, weekly inflation rose by 1.30% and annualised inflation increased to 29.83% due to a sharp rise in energy and food prices, inc...
05 Aug, 2023, 01.28 PM IST
At Rs 320 per kg, Pakistan's Karachi struggles with world's most expensive flour prices amidst economic crisisKarachi, Pakistan's major city, is now facing the highest flour prices in the world, standing at Rs 320 per kilogram or Rs 3,200 per 20 kil...
20 Jul, 2023, 10.19 AM IST
Pakistan: Sugar, flour prices soar once again in BalochistanMany districts of poverty-struck Balochistan are witnessing a rise in the prices of sugar and flour once against.
30 May, 2023, 06.36 AM IST
Unprecedented shortage of wheat may lead to anarchy in PakistanThe ongoing economic crisis in Pakistan is a classic example of this phenomenon where poor citizens have been battling backbreaking inflati...
29 Apr, 2023, 05.04 PM IST
Pakistan facing net wheat deficit of 2.37 million metric tons, says food ministerAt present, Pakistan is facing its worst-ever flour crisis with parts of the country reporting a shortage of wheat and stampedes reported f...
28 Jan, 2023, 08.52 AM IST
Protests erupt in PoK as residents grapple with economic, flour crisisThe rainfalls followed by flash floods and aided by crumbling infrastructure and insufficient government response mechanisms wreaked havoc ...
18 Jan, 2023, 01.06 PM IST
Pakistan is South Asia's weakest economy: World Bank reportPakistan had unprecedented floods in July last year, devastating large swathes of farmlands. The forex reserves in the country which hit a ...
18 Jan, 2023, 12.46 PM IST
Pakistan flour crisis worsens; prices skyrocket amidst wheat shortage, stampedes reportedTens of thousands spend hours daily to get the subsidized bags of flour that are already short in supply in the market. Chaotic scenes are ...
11 Jan, 2023, 03.38 PM IST
ET Explainer: All you need to know on Pakistan's worst flour crisisThe prices of wheat flour, which is one of the key constituents of the staple diet of people in Pakistan, have skyrocketed amid the ongoing...
10 Jan, 2023, 11.41 AM IST
Pakistan government increases prices of wheat flour, sugar, ghee in utility storesThe price of sugar under the new rates has increased to Rs89 per kg from Rs70 per kg, an increase by 27 per cent. The price of ghee has inc...
02 Jan, 2023, 01.18 PM IST
Soaring dollar leaves food piled up in ports as world hunger growsAround the world, countries that rely on food imports are grappling with a destructive combination of high interest rates, a soaring dollar...
18 Oct, 2022, 11.46 AM IST
Soaring Dollar leaves food piled up in ports as world hunger growsIn Ghana, importers are warning about shortages in the run up to Christmas. Thousands of containers loaded with food recently piled up at p...
17 Oct, 2022, 12.16 AM IST
Pakistan consumer price inflation at 14-year high of 24.9% in JulyPakistan is facing economic turmoil with fast depleting foreign reserves, an historic depreciation of the rupee against U.S. dollar, and so...
01 Aug, 2022, 05.09 PM IST
India seeks transit from Pakistan to supply wheat to AfghanistanIndian wheat would cost Pakistani Rupees 2,900 per tonne in Afghanistan, against Pakistani price of Rs 3,400 per tonne.
27 Oct, 2014, 12.54 PM IST
- Parameters of standard savoury snack must be what the markets can stomach
There are reports of unofficial prices of this SSS going as high as Rs 15 in Pakistan at such times, leading to an unsavoury grey economy.
30 Jul, 2012, 06.14 AM IST
- Pak grain being smuggled into India
Pakistan has asked its Rangers deployed along the Indo-Pak border to check any possibility of smuggling of pulses, rice, wheat and flour to...
23 Apr, 2008, 12.05 AM IST
- Pakistan polls the most colourless ever
Blame it on former premier Benazir's Bhutto's assassination, security concerns caused by deadly suicide attacks or the severe cold wave the...
11 Feb, 2008, 01.22 PM IST