Politicians and the IMF are failing Pakistan’s most vulnerable, laments Murtaza Syed
A former central banker on the coming chaos in his country and what to do about it
The problems of Pakistan are encapsulated in the lives of two people I have met in recent months. Mariam Bibi still lives with her five children in a makeshift tent beside the Indus River in north-west Pakistan, eight months after their lives were turned upside down by extensive flooding. Even finding enough to feed and clothe her children is problematic. There are 30m poor people like her in Pakistan who are still feeling the effect of the floods.
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