Pakistan is living on borrowed time.
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"#DollarReserves have dwindled to just $4.4 billion, enough for only three weeks of imports, and crucial bailout talks with the International Monetary Fund (#IMF) have stalled since November.
#Food #inflation soared to nearly 50 percent in April, according to official data."
Crippled economy fuels former #Pakistan PM Khan's protests | #PakistanCrisis #ImranKhan
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230518-crippled-economy-fuels-former-pakistan-pm-khan-s-protests
#imrankhan #pakistancrisis #pakistan #inflation #food #imf #dollarreserves
"The #MilitaryCourts are separate from Pakistan’s civilian legal system where the judges are members of the army’s legal branch. The hearings taking place at military installations where the media does not have access. If convicted, a person has no right to appeal their case in another court."
Concerns as #Pakistan moves to try Khan supporters under army laws | #ImranKhan #PakistanCrisis
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/18/concerns-as-pakistan-moves-to-try-khan-supporters-under-army-laws
#pakistancrisis #imrankhan #pakistan #militarycourts
This is utterly depressing and ni one is eeven mentioning it but for @BylinesNetwork #pakistancrisis https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesupplement/p/can-pakistan-survive?r=ecqn&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
"#Food and #FuelPrices have skyrocketed since the #UkraineWar began, with the price of a kilo of flour rising from 58 to 155 rupees (45p). #Rice has more than doubled, while #petrol has gone from 145 rupees a litre last year to 272 rupees now."
‘We’d have died of #hunger’: the #CharityKitchens feeding millions in #Pakistan | #PakistanCrisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/mar/29/lost-jobs-hunger-food-charity-kitchens-feeding-millions-pakistan?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1680072639
#pakistancrisis #pakistan #charitykitchens #hunger #petrol #rice #UkraineWar #FuelPrices #food
“Improving a country’s energy system requires the patient policymaking that neither the government of the day nor international financial institutions have brought.”
#PakistanCrisis
#LastWeekinCollapse #Collapse #Haiti #DoomsdayClock #COVID #LongCOVID #Japan #population #PakistanCrisis #SouthAfrica #PFOS #SeaLevelRise #ClimateCatastrophe
#lastweekincollapse #collapse #Haiti #doomsdayclock #covid #LongCOVID #japan #population #pakistancrisis #southafrica #pfos #sealevelrise #climatecatastrophe