Pakistan: On Life Support
A weekly dispatch on debt, decay and the dangerous illusion of stability
Pakistan’s donors call it stabilisation. Most Pakistanis would still call it survival. This week looked like a whole country trying to behave as if things are normal again: IMF tranches and smog alerts, stock ticks and T20 gossip, a judge’s son walking out of court after killing two young women, a YouTuber crying on camera about torture, and celebrities…
