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Last Updated : 2024-04-27 00:40:00
Pakistan has left Sri Lanka behind and has recorded the highest inflationary pressure in Asia at 38 per cent in May 2023.
With Pakistan reluctant to satisfy the IMF conditionalities and staring at a sovereign default if the financing program expires end-June, the Shehbaz Sharif government is between a rock and a hard place as the Islamic nation has recorded its highest inflation numbers since records were kept in 1957. Inflation in Sri Lanka has come down to 25.2 per cent after Pakistan overtook Colombo in April 2023.
While Pakistan has always boxed way above its weight category, first due to support from the US in the past century and now China, and tried to compare itself with India, the inflation rate under the Narendra Modi government stands at 4.7 per cent, lowest since October 2021, and the food inflation is just 3.8 per cent. The food inflation in Pakistan is 48.7 per cent in May up from 48.1 per cent in April.
The Pakistan government’s negotiations with the IMF have got further skewed after IMF mission chief Nathan Porter went on record stating that he hoped that the current political crisis in Pakistan was resolved in line with the Constitution and the rule of law. This statement was slammed by Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, who found Porter’s statement tantamount to meddling in political affairs of Pakistan. Minister Asif took umbrage to Porter commenting on domestic politics of Pakistan rather than giving the much-required USD 1.1 billion-dollar loan to the Islamic nation.
While the Pakistani leadership feels that mentor China will come to its financial support if the economic situation goes south due to no IMF board meeting this month, the crisis in the Islamic nation is far deeper than what appears with the nation being polarized by May 9 mayhem and violence by PTI chief Imran Khan Niazi’s supporters. Due to Niazi’s continuous attacks on the Pakistan Army establishment, the general public doubts even the capacity of Rawalpindi GHQ to stem the deep rot within as the Army itself was found divided on May 9 with the PTI supporters torching the Jinnah House residence of the powerful Lahore Corps Commander. With Pakistan judiciary, political leadership and the Army pulling in different directions, the Islamic nation is on its knees with insurgencies rising in Balochistan, Sindh and Tehreek-e-Taliban, Pakistan targeting the armed forces in the heart of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provinces.
Rather than focusing on how to co-opt Kashmir, trigger Khalistan in Indian Punjab and create strategic space in Afghanistan, the Shehbaz Sharif government should get its act together and focus internally to arrest Pakistan from hitting the rock-bottom. (Hindustan Times)
BuffaloaCitizen Friday, 02 June 2023 05:01 PM
Super, now we have a colleague in our league, now best thing for 69% Sinhalese next time they go to vote is to get a tip cut before doing that.
Jonathan Friday, 02 June 2023 07:06 PM
Sri Lanka has two geniuses who have hands-on experience about successfully handling a financial crisis - Ranil and Nandalal. Why not invite them?
Killivalavan S Friday, 02 June 2023 07:22 PM
Both countries, governments used military to meddle with politics and used the military to supress its own people. They both continue to do so and the price is paid by the stupid citizens who put up with the slave mentality
DH Saturday, 03 June 2023 08:33 AM
Sri Lanka successfully finished off the uprising that is why the economy stabilized while pakistan could not.
Lost Lankan Saturday, 03 June 2023 05:07 AM
Why worry about other countries when we have own issues to clean up our backyard. We are bunch of useless idiots poking into others problem unnecessarily and give free advisees on any account with NO clue on the core issues. This is in our common man's DNA
K.L Pathirana Saturday, 03 June 2023 06:11 AM
Instead the Climate change university, we have the government experts who can lecture at the University of 'Cook the Books to Perfection' How to deflate your inflation overnight. Examples are live, falling US dollar by the day with no exports, low production or foreign revenue.
Punchi Saturday, 03 June 2023 07:46 AM
Pakistan is irrelevant in the international scope of things. Even Muslim countries are mostly ignoring Pakistan and making a beeline to New Delhi. Like us they toyed with militant religion as a means to manipulate the people. Like us they are licking the boots of the civilised world
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