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The IMF Is Using the Debt Crisis to Hollow Out Pakistan’s Sovereignty 20 April by Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan (CC - Wikimedia) Imran Khan’s government came to power in 2018 promising to reorient Pakistan’s economy toward the needs of the population. But faced with a debt crisis it soon dropped its reformist agenda — and now, the International Monetary Fund is pressuring it to place its State Bank permanently beyond democratic control.   Contents   As the Covid-19 crisis continues to wreak havoc, at the end of March UN Secretary General António Guterres called fo...

This file photo shows farmers being baton-charged by the police during the second day of their protest at Thokar Niaz Beg.—Arif Ali / White Star LAHORE: Raiwind police took into custody the president of his own faction of the Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI), Chaudhry Anwar, from his residence on Monday. The farmers’ leader had led a protest around three months ago (November 2020) in the provincial capital, demanding Rs2,000 per 40kg wheat support price and Rs300 per kg for sugarcane, besides flat power rate of Rs5 per unit for the farm tubewells. However, in the ensuing clash with police on...

Human rights in 2020 January 1, 2021 We continued to feel intense suffocation in Pakistan throughout 2020. The state of human rights, which has consistently remained morbid for the past few years, definitely did not improve this past year either. State repression, crackdown on dissent, enforced disappearances, false police cases against journalists, arbitrary detentions of rights defenders, attacks on religious minorities, violation of labor laws and violence against women continued. The government was so fixated on the status of religious minorities in India, France and other parts of Euro...