Supplies are not expected to improve despite a nationwide lockdown easing this weekend. FMTNews
Police officers patrol a market during the nationwide lockdown in Peshawar last month.
The sum is equivalent to the monthly wage for many people, and Iram initially baulked at the price. When she changed her mind a couple of days later, the beer was gone. “For Muslims in Pakistan, drinking alcohol is prohibited and talking about it is taboo,” Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif once wrote in a column in the New York Times.Volunteers prepare food boxes for breaking fast in Rawalpindi on Sunday. The largest legal supplier of alcohol is the Murree Brewery, in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, a legacy of the British Raj that produces a range of beers and spirits catering to Pakistan’s “non-Muslims” and foreign residents.
For the last month and a half, the Murree Brewery, like many other manufacturers, was forced to halt production. Instead of producing drinks, Murree is now using alcohol to make hand sanitiser.
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