Watch| Pakistanis Risk Lives to Get Wheat in the Food-Scarce Country

Pakistanis have started to risk their lives to get wheat and flour for their families. A 15 Kg bag of wheat flour costs Rs 2,050 in the heavy inflation-burdened Islamic nation.

In a video making rounds on social media, Pakistanis were seen to be risking their lives to get something for their families to eat by chasing a wheat truck on foot and bikes.

This isn’t a motorcycle rally, ppl in #Pakistan are desperately chasing a truck carrying wheat flour, hoping to buy just 1 bag. Ppl of #JammuAndKashmir should open their eyes. Lucky not to be #Pakistani & still free to take decision about our future. Do we have any future with🇵🇰? pic.twitter.com/xOywDwKoiP

— Prof. Sajjad Raja (@NEP_JKGBL) January 14, 2023

Professor Sajjad Raja, chairman of National Equality Party Jammu Kashmir Gilgit Baltistan and Ladakh (JKGBL) has shared the visual on Twitter. He wrote, “This is not a motorcycle rally, but people in Pakistan are chasing a truck loaded with flour, in the hope that they will buy just one packet of flour. Do we have any future in Pakistan? This video is just a glimpse of what is happening in Pakistan.”

The price of a 15kg flour bag has increased by Rs 300 in the past two weeks in Pakistan.

Pakistan’s inflation rate reached 24.5 per cent in December last year due to a massive spike in the prices of food products. The inflation rate of food materials in Pakistan has reached around 35 per cent.