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Posts Tagged ‘Flour’

Ramadan and Price Hike

By Ghazala Khan • Sep 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics

One solution and an equally viable one is to eat less and spend less in Ramadan to avoid price hike. All those Pakoras, Samosas, Kachorees, Dates, drinks, Chats, Dahi Balas, Chicken, Beef, Mutton, Chutnees and other things could wait to go in our never-satisfied bellies. Why is it necessary to adorn the Iftar table […]



Fake Flour Crisis Looming Large

By Ali Khan • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics

When today, I gave myself a break from “yearning for justice” and went to buy flour, I got shocker my life, as despite of roaming about the whole locality and then half of the city, I was unable to find a single bag of flour.
Small-time shopkeepers showed me despair and their inability, while the big […]



Flour Crisis Rooting Out

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • May 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

One of many prime responsibilities of the government is to supply flour to the people at affordable prices everywhere in the country through either utility stores or through the general markets.
Along with the ample supply of the flour, government needs to keep a strict check on smuggling and hoarding of the flour. The inter-provincial ban […]



Is the Rice next after Pakistan Election 2008?

By Farid Masood • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

Here, I am not talking about shortage of Ms Rice of USA, as she is there where needed. I am talking about the shortage of yield of crop ‘Rice’, which is the second food item after flour and is much necessary in many diseases when you cannot eat flour. We have witnessed the […]



Why dont we go to poll our vote?

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Feb 11th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Why don’t we just bother to vote? General Elections in Pakistan are likely to be held on 18th February, which is Monday next week, and it will be a national holiday, and that is what many of Pakistanis are happy about. They are asking each other as whether it will be a holiday on […]



A Ghazal for Lotas

By Fatima Tassaduq • Feb 10th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment, Pakistan Vote'08

They’re green, they’re white, they’re yellow
They get that way underground
There can’t be much to do
So now they have blue ones too
We don’t care what thay look like we’ll vote them
Any way they can fit in our washplate
Every way we can conjure to woo them
We’re delighted and think they’re just great
Loa tay tay Loa tay tay […]



Did Shaukat Aziz really understand our Economy ?

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Feb 9th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Pakistan Vote'08

Though the man has ran away from “Putli gullee”, and is nowhere to be seen when nation is reaching for their pistols after not finding his much touted bumper crop, we could beat the line by discussing was he really there to understand our economic woes, or any moron could boast about positive economic indexes […]



Our Survival Depends Upon Feb Elections

By The Pakistani Spectator • Feb 5th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

18th February elections in Pakistan are somewhat different in the sense that they are not yet another Nora-Wrestling match between Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto. They are perhaps yet another dealt-with, pre-decided, Nora-Wrestling, but this time between new players for the new stakes.
These elections are all about change. The sun is setting for the old […]



How many more ‘4s’

By Farid Masood • Jan 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The Federal Food Committee (FFC) should increased the official flour price at Utility Stores and in the open market by a minimum of Rs4 per kg if it wants to discourage smuggling of flour. This suggestion was given by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Minfal) to FFC.
The flour price at the Utility Stores […]



Investigations of Ms Bhutto’s Assassination

By Farid Masood • Jan 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I have written how Ms Bhutto was assassinated in my post of 28th December 2007. Today I am not going to talk in detail about that issue. This is what now we think seriously that will this be revealed after the investigation that who was the actual killer of Ms Bhutto.

The answer is […]