@ghazi52 I challenge you to find pics of 'Ration Cards' from the early 1970s?!!! I do remember them!! Zulfi Bhutto's 'Nationalization' policies hit the Pakistani economy hard after he took power 1971/early 1972. He had the mandate for 'socialism' in Pakistan.
Anyway, Pakistan had food issues in the early 1970s. I distinctly remember having to walk to a neighborhood shop, carrying a 'Ration Card' to get some food. Flour? Bajra (Millet)? The slogan of 'Roti Kapra Makan' (Bread, Clothing, Housing) of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (the PPP) was not only common in Pakistan. India, in the 70s, made a movie eerie similar to that called 'Roti, Kapra Makan'.
You can still find surmadani in pubjab villages.
Its still quite common.
My mother bas vintage ones if you call 80s, 70s vintage. But they are quite commonly found still and used.