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Introduction
Essen Butt is an Associate Professor of International Relations at George Mason University. He says Pakistan's economic crisis is really one about debt. The servicing of that debt, forget the debt itself, just the interest payments on that debt sort of stretch the Pakistani state beyond its capability. "This is all very much kicking the can down the road until there are sustainable and wholehearted reforms in the economy"