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AER 122: Attempts to arrest Imran Khan and the Lahore High Court rallies

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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What Is Happening With the IMF?

In April of last year, whole world was going through some of the... Exactly. And that was like before too, right? Like Imran Khan was dealing with that too and struggling with it. This was part of the reason we thought the US was involved because he was making deals with Russia over food and energy. But since they did not get cheaper fuel and fuel is the biggest cost that Pakistani government has the biggest price. Since then Pakistan has been importing these costly fuel and the oil prices in Pakistan are really high. They keep going higher and higher. So one way to go get out of it was to go to the IMF. And Pakistan since then has been trying to negotiate with the IMF

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