PakistanFlour now sells at Rs150-170 a kilo, up over 200% since 2021.
Roti has gone from Rs8 to Rs25, and Rawalpindi flour tops Rs200.
Punjab handed wheat buying to private aggregators, 9 of 11 never started, and 160,000 of 3 million tonnes were bought.
The government has not firmed up a wheat import plan, and Punjab releases 3,500 of the usual 25,000 daily tonnes.
How each outlet framed it
- Dawn leans critical
- frames the flour crisis as a human-dignity and social-fabric collapse, citing Punjab's aggregator model where nine of 11 firms could not start buying due to bank reservations
Sources: Dawn