While the public buckles under the high inflationary pressures, there are reports that Pakistan will have to take more “prior actions” to secure two combined tranches of about $1.85 billion from the IMF by the end of July or early August.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on a one-day-visit to the United Arab Emirates to offer his condolences on the passing away of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, former UAE president and Abu Dhabi ruler.
Imran Khan invited the nation to join the peaceful protests in all major cities of the country on 2nd July, while the central protest will be staged in Parade Ground, Islamabad led by Imran Khan himself.
Pakistan desperately needs the money to avert a balance of payment crisis that is being brought closer by the day as result of the sharp rise in global oil and commodity prices.
The BJP-led Hindu right-wing has initiated demographic engineering of the Jammu and Kashmir in compliance with the Hindutva proposed Hindu majoritarian state of Kashmir as the only solution for the territorial integrity of the disputed land to Hindu Rashtra.