Dawn.comUpdated 01 Jan, 2021 07:45pm The year 2020 brought with it many unprecedented challenges. While scientists and doctors rushed to make a vaccine for the novel coronavirus that continues to ravage populations across the globe, governments struggled to deal with the economic blowout from the pandemic which literally brought business activity to a grinding halt for months on end. For a developing country like Pakistan, which is under a mountain of debt and already part of an IMF bailout plan, the situation presented an almost impossible task. In its second full year of governance, the PTI government had its hands full battling the spread of the deadly virus, tackling the country's current account, domestic economy and addressing the concerns of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to name a few, all the while dealing with an extremely resistant opposition.