Our friend Abid worked with us on a radio story on the present wheat crisis.

Amber:The professor I interviewed said that poor people spend a huge percentage of their income on wheat, he couldn't remember the exact figure but it was some are around 40%. Therefore, when the price of wheat doubles (the prices have varied over the last couple of ( Read more... )

Notwithstanding seemingly-constant power-outages, I've got another feature coming up on this afternoon's FSRN show. You know the drill. Here's the list of stations, and if you don't get FSRN in your area, you can always check the website later this evening.

Click here to download the piece, or you can go to the FSRN website and scroll down the article and listen to it.

We'll be doing another feature for today's newscast.

I did a radio piece yesterday on Bhutto's promise to mobilize thousand next week in a march from Lahore to Islamabad.