washington pakistan finance minister ishaq dar has said that his country is ready to buy fuel from russia at the same rate being provided to neighbouring india according to the news internationalishaq dar who is the newly appointed finance minister of the country made these remarks during an official visit to the united states uswhile interacting with media persons the minister also asserted that the west would have no problem to importing the discounted fuel due to the hardship caused by devastating floods in pakistani have held 58 meetings with the heads of international financial institutions the us saudi arabia and other countries authorities during my 4day stay in washington the news quoted ishaq dar as sayingin a roundtable conference hosted to discuss floods in pakistan the pakistan finance minister said the united nations development programme asian development bank and the world bank authorities presented a joint report therepakistan suffered losses to the tune of usd 3240 billion due to floods more than usd 16 billion are needed by pakistan for the rehabilitation work the pak minister said citing the reportaccording to a media report pakistan is staring at a possible food crisis as the production of wheat in the upcoming rabi season is expected to drop owing to lowprofit margins that are forcing farmers to look out for alternative cropsheavily impacted by the unprecedented floods throughout the country pakistan is now planning to buy wheat from sanctionhit russia amid the ongoing conflict in ukrainethe two technical sides are already discussing that we want to procure wheat from russia pakistani ambassador to moscow shafqat ali khan said in an interview with the news agency tassthe pakistani ambassador said they look to russia as a longterm and stable partner when it comes to food supplies amid the food crisisrussia has emerged as a new supplier for us earlier it used to be different other countries we look to russia as a longterm stable partner when it comes to food supplies for us he saidnotably these talks on wheat procurement and fuel come amid the diplomatic row over us president joe bidens remark on pakistanat a democratic party event us president described the south asian country as one of the most dangerous nations in the world which holds nuclear weapons without any cohesion