Colonist USA using food shortage as a tool of oppression in Pakistan

 

Dear All,

              What Pakistan's foreign rulers are up to by pushing food prices so high?

Colonists have used tactic of famine and food shortage to cow down the
rebellion in the past. Ireland and  Bengal of British India are cases in point, which have become synonymous with hunger.

                Look what WFP  has to say about food crisis in Pakistan:
Geneva (AFP) March 23, 2011

Pakistan's government has pushed food prices too high
for an impoverished population, as malnutrition levels rise despite the
recovery of crops after devastating floods, a UN food relief official
said Wednesday.

Wolfgang Herbinger, director for the World Food Programme (WFP) in
Pakistan, said food crops especially wheat in the southern flood-hit
plains were recovering fast with the prospect of decent crops over the
coming weeks.

"The crop outlook is not bad but the food security situation remains
difficult because prices remain so high," he told journalists one the
sidelines of humanitarian meetings in Geneva.

"The government is the biggest buyer of wheat in Pakistan they are
setting the farm gate price and they dominate market," Herbinger
explained.

"That's why the wheat price in Pakistan didn't adjust when, for example,
in 2009 and early 2010 the wheat price had gone back a lot, it stayed
high to the detriment of local consumers."

Now ordinary consumers pay double the price for wheat compared to three
years ago and the food security situation has "changed dramatically, "
the WFP official added.

Malnutrition levels in the southern province of Sindh have reached 21 to 23 percent, according to the agency.

"That is well above African standards. The emergency standard is 15 percent," the WFP official said.


A recent survey found that in some flood-hit areas 70 percent of people
were taking out loans and even using them to pay for food.

Herbinger admitted that the WFP was "struggling a bit" to bring the message across to authorities.

"You may have the country full with food but people are too poor to buy it," he explained.

"We are working a lot with the Ministry of Agriculture to explain to the
minister that it is not enough to have enough production in the country
if people can't afford it."

"Maybe for political reasons he doesn't always understand it, that it's
one thing to be nice to the farmers but if your consumers can't afford
it then... there's something wrong with agricultural policy," Herbinger
added.

Massive floods caused by monsoon rains in July and August 2010 killed
thousands, destroyed 1.7 million homes and damaged 5.4 million acres of
arable land, experts have said.
http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Pakistan_food_prices_too_high_UN_food_relief_agency_999.html


Our callous rulers, the puppets of US colonialism have benefited by rising the prices of food grains,  milk, sugar and fuel. On the other hand they have let loose their police to loot and plunder the people. There is neither peace nor prosperity in the country. PPP zndabad!

                                                                      Muhammad Javed Iqbal

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