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Soaring petrol prices triggered by the US-Israeli conflict with Iran pushed Pakistan's food delivery riders to the brink on Friday (March 13), forcing many to skip meals and rely on charity to survive during Ramadan after their earnings were wiped out by record fuel costs.


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00:02Soaring petrol prices, driven by the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, have left Pakistan's food
00:08delivery riders struggling to make ends meet on Friday.
00:12Many were forced to skip meals and rely on charity during Ramadan after record fuel costs
00:18wiped out their earnings.
00:20Last week, Pakistan raised petrol prices by 55 rupees, or about 0.77 cents, pushing the
00:27cost above 320 rupees per liter, or roughly 4.48 ringgit.
00:33The hike passes on surging global oil prices to consumers as tensions threaten supplies
00:39through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:41For the thousands of motorcyclists powering the country's delivery economy, the hike has
00:46shattered a fragile livelihood.
00:47There are 322 rupees per liter, where we had 12-13 orders, and now we have 7 orders, 8 orders.
00:58The radius is also bigger.
01:00We have a lot of problems.
01:02We have a lot of problems.
01:03You can fill it all the way.
01:05And they have 133 rupees per liter.
01:11And we have to change our price with our 돈.
01:13We don't need to take a hat on the ark.
01:14We can't take 1992 for the year.
01:15We can't take a hat on Christmas again.
01:18We are getting some food, and we're raising water for the day.
01:20We're handing our food, or we can't pay a house with the house for the month.
01:23We're going to go into the morning's bread.
01:27We're going to have the money into tea.
01:31They are having the bread.
01:32The government says it has sufficient fuel reserves, but plans to stretch them amid ongoing uncertainty.
01:40Weekly price reviews have been announced, and measures such as work-from-home policies and distance learning are being considered
01:46to conserve fuel.
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