ISLAMABAD, April 1 (Reuters) – Consumer price inflation in Pakistan jumped to a record 35.37% in March from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said on Saturday, as at least 16 people were killed in stampedes for food aid.
The March inflation number eclipsed February’s 31.5%, the bureau said, as food, beverage and transport prices surged up to 50% year-on-year.
Thousands of people have gathered at flour distribution centres set up across the country, some as part of a government-backed programme to ease the impact of inflation.
At least 16 people, including five women and three children, have been killed in stampedes at such centres in recent days, police and officials have said. Thousands of bags of flour have also been looted from trucks and distribution points, according to official records.
A spokesman at the statistics bureau said the inflation number was the highest ever year-on-year increase recorded by the bureau since monthly records began in the 1970s. more
And they have the Bomb.
Desperate people do desperate things.
It’s fascinating to watch the effects of a coup that was staged here.
ISLAM A BAD? ….ironic what you can do to spelling a word with a couple of spaces…..
^ I slam Islam with moose lambs.
Over 70% of Pakis marry their first cousin, and they’ve been doing it for centuries.