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2008-01-15 India-Pakistan

Pakistan army guards scarce grain (A Window on the Future))

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Posted by phil_b 2008-01-15 02:10|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Isn't wheat too perishable to hoarde it for too long under the conditions I imagine it being hoarded under?

Perhaps Pakistanis could eat poppies . . . .

Posted by gorb 2008-01-15 07:20|| 2008-01-15 07:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Or they could eat some nutritious crow. They made a desert and they called it islam (which means peace).

Posted by Excalibur 2008-01-15 09:35|| 2008-01-15 09:35|| Front Page Top

#3 They make a reduction of whirled peas that's simply divine, or so I'm told.

Posted by Seafarious 2008-01-15 09:40|| 2008-01-15 09:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Later flour ran out on the open market when officials fixed prices

Mmmm, price controls. Is there any economic problem they can't exacerbate?

Posted by SteveS 2008-01-15 11:17|| 2008-01-15 11:17|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm sure their fellow Muslims won't let Pakistanis starve.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-01-15 15:55|| 2008-01-15 15:55|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm sure if they got all the thousands upon thousands of madrassah students and teachers to pray to Allah, wheat would fall from the sky.

Posted by danking70 2008-01-15 17:12|| 2008-01-15 17:12|| Front Page Top

#7 We'd liked to help out, but our wheat makes Muslims impotent. Or sterile. I forget...

Posted by tu3031 2008-01-15 17:15|| 2008-01-15 17:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Benazir's dad) did promise in 1965 that Pakistanis would eat grass to get the atomic bomb.. they have the bomb and may soon be eating grass...

Posted by john frum 2008-01-15 17:44|| 2008-01-15 17:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Now Pakistan's national disaster management authority has deployed thousands of paramilitary troops at wheat stores.

"No blood for bread!"

Posted by Raj 2008-01-15 18:11|| 2008-01-15 18:11|| Front Page Top