As Pakistan’s largest reservoirs, Tarbela and Mangla, teeter near dead levels, the nation faces a dual crisis, acute water shortages and a looming wheat harvest disaster. With Punjab and Sindh…
WHEAT is the most important grain for Pakistani consumers, with, on average, over 50 per cent of their caloric dietary intake provided by the crop. The crop is equally important…
HOW do two working-class village women, meeting for the first time, learn about each other’s state of well-being? Pardon my eavesdropping, but while travelling in rural Punjab in a cramped…
IT is happening all the time now. As Ramazan proceeds, a huge rush, sometimes ending in stampedes, at food distribution sites is a common sight. In Karachi, 12 people —…
FOOD insecurity in Pakistan has aggravated sharply over the past few years, the inevitable outcome of persistent political instability and declining economic health. With one of the fastest-growing populations in…
The recent wheat crisis in Pakistan can be attributed to two primary factors. Firstly, the Punjab government abruptly withdrew from the market, leaving room for the private sector to exploit…
India is poised to begin wheat imports after a six-year gap, to replenish depleted reserves and hold down prices that leaped following three years of disappointing crops, sources say, as…
Jubilations about the country achieving a historic bumper wheat crop have become short-lived and have instead been overtaken by the saga of slow sales and falling price levels, resulting in…
There is a clear, lasting, and simple solution to Pakistan’s Rs300 billion recurring wheat powder keg. The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has no solution. Seventy-six years of paralysis, a living testament.…
The wheat crisis has thrown up a host of troubling questions that revolve around the persistent wisdom that in our governance system, the left hand seldom knows what the right…
