The bread has gone out of reach of poor masses so much so that even beggars now ask for alms to buy flour. The flour sells at Rs 36/kg and a household of four people would consume a minimum of one kg per day. This means about Rs 1000 per month on bread alone. Almost 60 percent of the people living on an income of one dollar a day, ie, Rs 90 per day, would spend 37 percent of their income on flour, leaving only 63 percent to be spent on other expenses of food, health, education clothing and housing which would be impossible to do.
So where is the slogan of roti, kapra aur makan in the above scenario proclaimed by PPP Chairman Bilawal in the cozy environs of Dubai. Does he have any realisation of the hand to mouth jiyalas that support the pyramid of PPP at the top echelons where the co-chairman lives in a presidential palace with billions stashed abroad safely under the canopy of his self-acclaimed immunity. There has never been such a stupendous hoax in the human history as is being inflicted on the hapless peoples of Pakistan.
DR MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI
Lahore