The increases were caused mainly by drought- and frost-affected harvests, but the government says it will investigate possible cartels among flourmills and bakers.
Despite spending his entire adult life in the U.S., Babar was still familiar with the Pakistani farm economy, thanks to his family, which owns the country's largest processor of grains and seeds and also includes flourmills, animal feeds, poultry farms and edible oils (canola, corn and sunflower).
The windmill was a Medieval European innovation and both wind and water mills were not just used for grinding flour but also fuilling cloth, making leather and driving bellows and trip-hammers.