People chase wheat flour truck in Pakistan as hunger deepens

New Delhi: A footage emerged today shows people in Pakistan chasing on foot and bikes a wheat truck for a bag of wheat.

The video, shared on Twitter by Professor Sajjad Raja, chairman of National Equality Party Jammu Kashmir Gilgit Baltistan and Ladakh (JKGBL), suggests the deepening food crisis in Pakistan.

Professor Sajjad Raja said in the caption that it was no motorcycle rally but people chasing wheat truck in the hope to buy one packet of flour.

“Do we have any future in Pakistan? This video is just a glimpse of what is happening in Pakistan," Sajjad Raja was quoted as saying.

The footage shows one man coming closer to the truck showing money appealing for a packet of flour.

Pakistan’s crumbling economy has left the food prices soaring to levels not reported in recent times.

A 15kg flour bag is sold for Rs 2,050, after an increase of Rs 150 as the price of 15 kg flour bag has gone up to Rs 300 in two weeks, India Today reported.

After stocks of cooking cylinders ran out, people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are reportedly using plastic bags to store LPG.

Scarcity of gas cylinders forced vendors to cut short cooking gas supply, the report said.

As governments over the years failed to pay back multilateral and bilateral assistance, Pakistan is not in any position to seek fresh helps, which it desperately needs.

Global lenders like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reportedly turned their back on Pakistan as its economy is in dire straits.

While its inflation is peaking to 24.5 percent, Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves are pathetically low.

A large number of Pakistanis are going without wheat which is an essential staple food of an overwhelming majority.