Three people were killed instantly and numerous others were gravely injured when a van collided with a caravan at the motorway M9 in Hyderabad, according to authorities. The incident happened within the authority of the Bula Khan police station.

Upon receiving notification, rescue teams arrived at the scene and took the deceased and injured to LMU Hospital Jamshoro. The majority of the wounded were in critical condition, according to rescue sources, and the death toll could still go up.

When a bus in Diamer, Gilgit-Baltistan, plunged into a deep ravine last week, at least twenty people were murdered and twenty-one more were injured.

The collision happened near the Yashukhaldas neighbourhood of Diamer on the Karakoram Highway, according to the reports. Once the driver lost control, the bus plunged into a gorge while it was driving from Rawalpindi to Hunza.

Rescue crews arrived on the scene and took the injured and deceased to Chilas Medical Centre. As most of the injured were in serious condition, rescue sources warned that the death toll could still go up.

The complexity of the wheat import procedure must be understood, according to Kakar.

He outlined government initiatives to reduce tax burdens, enable wheat purchases by the private sector, and raise money through import taxes.

The previous acting prime minister emphasised that the country’s wheat demand was taken into consideration while deciding whether to let private sector imports of wheat in order to keep supply and demand ratios in check.

Asserting that the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) records corroborate his assertion, he attributed the country’s decline in inflation to the activities of the caretaker administration, while rejecting the accusations of corruption and crises.

The last acting prime minister disclosed during a question-and-answer session that he had pushed the private sector to benefit from the opening of wheat imports since it had an impact on the world supply chain.

In order to preserve the equilibrium of supply and demand, he thought it was a smart move for the PTI administration to issue Statutory Regulatory Orders (SROs) to import wheat during the COVID era.

The previous government had given the private sector permission to import wheat, he noted, therefore no new legislation were passed regarding it.

According to Kakar, the government should play a regulatory rather than an interventionist role in market dynamics.

The PDM government ended on August 8 and was replaced by caretaker government on August 9, according to Kakar during the first segment of the programme.

A thorough discussion about the alleged shortage of 3 to 4 million metric tonnes of wheat followed the estimation made at the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) meeting that the nation would need 3 to 4 million tonnes of wheat to meet its requirements.

At the time, 1.4 million tonnes of wheat, including extra stock, were in stock. The process for addressing the wheat shortfall was examined, and it was disclosed that wheat is acquired through TCP, according to Kakar.

Following the scarcity, the process for resolving the wheat deficit was examined, with particular attention paid to obtaining wheat via the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP).

The federal government launches wheat and fertiliser imports depending on information received from the provinces, as former Caretaker Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar further emphasised.

The earlier caretaker administration, he continued, set aside Rs 297 billion specifically for TCP’s purchase activities with the goal of keeping a 1 million-tonne wheat strategic stockpile.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed concerns about TCP’s procurement practices, and there have been complaints made about the organization’s methods. TCP is the source of wheat.

At a news conference, Kissan Ittehad Chairman Khalid Khokhar declared that farmers would protest the government’s choice to import the product rather than buying it from nearby farmers on May 10.

Khokar suggested that people involved in wheat import corruption ought to be hung, notwithstanding his accusations of corruption in the process.
The farmer leader claimed that an attempt was made to rein in the “wheat mafia” by raising the reserve rate of wheat.

The farmers produced enormous amounts of wheat, but they lost out on their earnings because the government imported the crop, he claimed.

The head of Kissan Ittehad insisted that thousands of farmers would take to the streets in protest since they had no other option because of the government.

According to Khalid Khokhar, despite the farmers’ reaching out to the prime minister, army chief, director general of ISI, and minister of food security, their concerns went unanswered.

He invited the business community, attorneys, journalists, and civil society to join the farmers’ protest.

Khokar, meantime, declared that the demonstration would remain nonviolent until the government made the decision to buy the product from the nearby farmers.

In addition, he protested against the country’s increased urea and fuel prices as well as the eight-hour load shedding, pointing out that Indian farmers receive free electricity.

Previous reports claimed that the import of wheat had cost the country $1 billion, with the private sector benefiting from cheaper imports into Pakistan.

Apparently, even with the surplus of wheat, the ECC had officially approved wheat imports from the private sector, and the National Food Security had asked for authorization to import 3,587,000 tonnes of wheat.