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Pakistan floods damaged 30 percent of wheat stocks, says business forum as traders call for imports
KARACHI: Floods in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province have destroyed 30 percent of the country’s wheat stocks, a senior official of a leading business forum said this week, as a prominent trader advised the government to allow imports of the commodity to stabilize prices. Large swathes of crops have been destroyed in Pakistan’s Punjab since late August, where floods have killed 46, affected 3.9 million and displaced 1.8 million.
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