Max rodenbank is our south asia bureau chief. Imrankan had a comfortable situation because the opposition was so much divided, and he had the support of the military. But in the last few months, he's lost both o those things. The most obvious reason is the economic troubles that pakistan has gotten into. Covid was a major blow to the economy. Inflation has been surging, particularly fuel prices going up. And this is o the context where imran kan had promised a sort of islamic socialist state but people just haven't seen any improvement.