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Pakistan in a perfect debt spiral with the worst impacts of the pandemic

24 November 2021 - by Abdul Khaliq

Pakistan is one of the 52 countries facing severe debt crisis. The most critical problem faced by the country’s economy is repayment and servicing of external debt. Persistent borrowing creates a spiral with more borrowing generating an impending (...)
[VIDEO] FESTIVAL SESSIONS: Growing private debt, vulnerability and inequality in South Asia

7 September 2021 - by Farooq Tariq , Sushovan Dhar, Amali Wedagedara, Nalini Ratnarajah

Presented by: South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE), Progressive Plantation Workers Union (PPWU) India, Manitham Trust India, Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangh (BNPS), South Asia Tax and Fiscal Justice Alliance (SATaFJA). Session is (...)
The US occupation took only human lives: Taliban victory is not a sign of peace

15 August 2021 - by Farooq Tariq

It is now evident that the US imperialism has lost all its human and financial investment in Afghanistan. The Taliban have almost occupied Afghanistan without a fight. What has been spent in Afghanistan in the name of development, ‘democracy’ (...)
Unmasking the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

16 May 2021 - by GRAIN

In 2018, China’s biggest agrochemical corporation, Sinochem Group Co, announced that it had conducted field trials of hybrid wheat varieties in 230 locations in Pakistan. Since intellectual property rights prevent farmers from saving hybrid (...)
Left in the lurch

Debt and Covid-19 in Ecuador, Kenya, Pakistan, the Philippines and Zambia

3 May 2021 - by Eurodad

This series of articles has been produced by Eurodad in collaboration with our global partners on the implementation of the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI), complementing and updating the report “Shadow report on the limitations of the (...)
The IMF Is Using the Debt Crisis to Hollow Out Pakistan’s Sovereignty

20 April 2021 - by Ammar Ali Jan

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 (...)
Urgent debt relief needed as Pakistan faces perfect debt trap

12 November 2020 - by Abdul Khaliq

The indicators of a severe debt crisis were already present in Pakistan long before the Covid-19 crisis hit. Coordinated efforts by CSOs all round the world are needed to ensure that countries like Pakistan are not left alone dealing with its (...)
Cancel the debt

23 April 2020 - by Mustafa Talpur

Last week, the G20 group of rich countries decided to postpone the debt payment that is due to be paid to G20 governments up to the end of 2020 for developing countries. This will help Pakistan free up some resources to tackle the pandemic. (...)
Illegal projects: How World Bank Arbitrators Mugged Pakistan

9 December 2019 - by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Thanks to the World Bank’s flawed and corrupt investment arbitration process, the rich are making a fortune at the expense of poor countries. The latest shakedown is a $5.9 billion award against Pakistan’s government in favor of two global mining (...)
Pakistan and World Bank Settlement of Investment Disputes – Do not pay the unfair fine; oppose the unjust decision of ICSID

22 July 2019 - by Farooq Tariq

This is a story of the dodgy deal by a multi national company and then earning massive amount of money through the so-called process of Settlement of Investment Disputes, a World Bank institution acting against developing countries. This is a (...)
Boom and then bust?

30 April 2019 - by Michael Roberts

Last March, [I posted that the global economy seemed to be in a fantasy world->https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/03/22/the-fantasy-world-of-the-long-depression where stock markets hit new highs but output of goods and services, (...)
Is Pakistan on the way to living without the IMF?

1 December 2018 - by Abdul Khaliq

Pakistan is perhaps the only country in South Asia with a history of repeated engagements with the IMF – 21 loan agreements since 1959. The last one was concluded in September 2016. Despite that, Pakistan’s economic woes have not been resolved. (...)
Is Pakistan falling into China’s debt trap?

16 April 2018 - by Abdul Khaliq

• Pakistan will have to payback $100 billion to China by 2024 of total investment of $18.5 billion, which China has invested on account of bank loans in 19 early harvest projects, under CPEC. • China has become the biggest lender to Pakistan after (...)
Bushra Khaliq, CADTM Pakistan : “There are immense impacts of the climate changes on poor communities in Pakistan”

6 February 2018 - by Bushra Khaliq , Robin Delobel

We asked a few questions to Bushra Khaliq during IIRE’s last Ecosocialist school session in Amsterdam. Bushra Khaliq has been a feminist activist and a member of CADTM Pakistan for years. She gave us insightful answers about this country which (...)
An introduction to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

24 November 2017 - by Robin Lee

While initial plans for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) predate those of OBOR it has been given renewed impetus under it and has come to be described as a flagship OBOR project. Along with the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic (...)
Pakistan: CPEC - A “game-changer” or another “East India Company”?

21 March 2017 - by Abdul Khaliq

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a big business proposition with huge Chinese investments spreading over 15 years having a total outlay of up to $46 billion: $35 billion on the energy sector in the mode of IPPs (independent Power (...)
Blind borrowing – Is Pakistan fast slipping into a debt trap?

8 December 2016 - by Dr. Kamal Monnoo

Owing to slowdown in exports and provided external borrowing are not capped, Pakistan’s external debt to export ratio is projected to be at 442% by 2019-20, which obviously will make it unserviceable. Exports, which used to finance 80% of imports (...)
Brick kiln workers and the debt trap in Pakistani Punjab

3 August 2016 - by Antonio De Lauri

Debt is everywhere a tool of social control, and no more so than in the brick kilns of Pakistani Punjab, where it travels across generations. Central and south Asian brick kilns have long attracted the attention of humanitarian agencies, (...)
The scourge of rising inequality – A case of Pakistan

26 January 2016 - by Abdul Khaliq

The issue of inequality, which was shunted aside amidst rapid growth over the last few decades, has resurfaced with a vengeance, particularly after the global financial crisis. The trend has been rising in most of the countries despite rapid (...)
The World Forum of Fisher Peoples’ calls for the immediate release of Mr. Saeed Baloch, General Secretary of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum

22 January 2016 - by Naseegh Jaffer

Pakistan must release Mr. Saeed Baloch immediately. Mr. Baloch was arrested on 16 January by the Pakistan Rangers, who works under the command of the Pakistan Army Mr. Baloch is a Human Rights activist since the 1980’ies. He was associated with (...)
Unlocking the chains of debt: speakers demand creation of parliamentary debt audit commission

28 September 2015 - by The News

Islamabad: Pakistan’s economy has been paralysed by an unpayable and largely unjust debt burden that is preventing the country from reaching its poverty goals and hindering the development of democracy, says a paper launched by Islamic Relief (...)
MNA propose to establish ’Debt Audit Commission’

28 September 2015 - by The Frontier Post

ISLAMABAD (APP): Speakers at a conference on Wednesday proposed to establish an independent “Debt Audit Commission” for deciding legitimacy of debts acquired by successive governments. Speaking at a “Conference on Pakistan’s National Debt” (...)
Pakistan takes more external loan

3 July 2015 - by Aftab Alexander Mughal

In what is an indication of the government’s inability to introduce promised reforms and address bureaucratic snags, Pakistan has so far received only $4.3 billion – 57% of its annual projections – in foreign economic assistance. Failure or delay (...)
Global Week of Action against Debts and IFIs 2014

Pakistan: Anti-debt campaigners slam IFIs role in enhancing poverty and debt crisis

LAHORE: (PR) “The PML-N government (which claims breaking the begging bowl) is blindly adding to the country’s debt. Pakistan’s total public debt has galloped to US $ 149 billion, of which foreign debt is over US $ 65 billion and domestic debt is (...)
Pakistan

Saudi ’gift’ violates pak law

6 April 2014 - by Abdul Khaliq

Foreign aid is not an odd thing, if there are no strings attached. Pakistan has been receiving tied and untied foreign aid; loans, and grants from various donors ever since its birth. However, the recent massive cash grant of $1.5 billion by the (...)