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From Rent-Seeking to Productive Demand: Rethinking Pakistan’s Economic Dilemma
Azhar Rashid Khan, PSP
Pakistan’s recurring economic crises are usually diagnosed the same way: too little national savings, too little exported output, too much consumption, and too much debt. The prescribed remedy, repeated across successive IMF programmes, is a familiar cycle — borrow, stabilise, impose austerity, recover briefly, and borrow again. By March 2026, Pakistan’s external debt stock.
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Asif Iqbal
“The state is not a neutral arbiter. It is the organised power of one class to suppress another – and when the class is a community, the suppression wears the face of order.” ~ Arundhati Roy, The Doctor and the Saint, 2017
On the morning of May 5, 2026, a blast rocked an area near the Iroisemba oil pump on the outskirts of Imphal. There were no casualties. There rarely are in these minor detonations – and that is precisely the point. In Manipur, violence no longer announces itself with the drama of pitched battle or the spectacle of mass atrocity. It has.
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