Wheat flour as a counterbalance.

"According to Zafar Iqbal Yousafzai...China is supplying the Taliban with contemporary weapons in response to the Islamic State Khorasan Province's (ISKP) recent attack on a hotel in Kabul that primarily housed Chinese nationals, ANI reported." TN. "The Jamestown Foundation claimed that as a result, the US exit and the Taliban's ascent to power - with whom Beijing has deep ties - were viewed as positive geopolitical developments for China." In 2021, "Chinese President Xi Jinping...hailed relations between China and Pakistan as between 'iron brothers' in a phone conversation with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan." Iron Brother Pakistan must be very uneasy. "As the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) ramp up their murderous attacks on Pakistani soldiers, ISI officers, police and ordinary citizens, the men who run Pakistan's security establishment are trotting out the usual bluff and bluster. Over 100 attacks have occurred over the last 50 days." Dawn. "The Pakistani 'establishment' believed it had pulled off a spectacular coup in ensuring a hasty US retreat from Afghanistan, and the Taliban regaining control in Kabul in August 2021." TOI. But the Afghan Taliban "haven't cooperated with Islamabad's demand of reining in the TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban) - a group that Pakistan considers the biggest threat to internal security." What is even more worrying, "Estimates vary. But given the current pace of business closures, temporary shutdowns, and planned reduction in industries' outputs, around 6.025 million people or 8.5 percent of the total workforce of 73m may remain unemployed during this year." Dawn. Terrorists find it easy to recruit from hungry people. In November 2022, Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi said that around 300 terrorists were present in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), while another 160 were waiting across the Line of Control to sneak across to our side. ET. On 1 January 2023, 4 people were killed and 9 injured in indiscriminate firing by militants at Dangri village in the Rajouri district of J&K. wikipedia. On 2 January, an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in the same village, killing one child and injuring 5 others, one of whom died later. Six people were killed in total. "Protests and shutdowns continued in some parts of Jammu division...following the twin terror attacks in Rajouri, with protester's criticising BJP's inability to control the situation on the ground and demanding action against Pakistan." ET. Following protests "the ministry of home affairs... rushed 18 companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to intensify anti-terror operations in the region." HT. The price of wheat flour has shot up in Pakistan, causing serious hardship, Zee News. So, should India supply wheat flour to Pakistan at concessional rates? Will that pacify the terrorists?