One was killed and eight injured during a stampede for free flour in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Charsadda on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.
Muhammad Arif, Police Chief Charsadda, stated that hundreds of people gathered at the local market for the handouts, one of the hundreds of distribution points set up by the government during Ramazan. Millions of low-income families across the country are registered under the scheme.
Pakistan’s finances have been wrecked by years of financial mismanagement and political instability – a situation worsened by a global energy crisis and devastating floods that left a third of the country under water last year.
