Crowd crushes for free goods in different cities in Pakistan in March, April, and June 2023 left 15 people dead and 45 others injured.
Meanwhile, in Charsadda, a city in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, one person died and eight others were injured in a crush for free flour during the first day of Ramadan.
[4] On the first day of Ramadan, a crush for free flour in Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, resulted in one death and eight injuries: nine people were trampled, one of them fatally, according to the police chief, Muhammad Arif.
[5][6][7] On 31 March 2023, in Karachi's Sindh Industrial and Trading Estate (SITE) area, a crush occurred, leading to the death of twelve people, including three children, and five others injured during the distribution of Zakat among the families of employees working at a private company.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan called for the government to improve the distribution system, emphasizing that the crush underscored people's desperation caused by rising costs, aggravated by Pakistan's plummeting currency and the removal of subsidies agreed upon with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to unlock the latest tranche of its financial support packages.