“This basic sense was missing,” Mian wrote in a Twitter thread. Princeton economist Atif Mian said Khan’s government, inheriting a weak economy in 2018, “went for the usual short cuts” in its economic policy instead of focusing on sustainable growth. A $6 billion International Monetary Fund program has also hit Pakistani wallets, with an increase in taxes being a prerequisite for the country to receive funding. 1 concern of more than 60 percent of respondents. Inflation has spiked under his leadership, predating the recent global surge, and a Gallup poll at the beginning of this year found that it was the No.
Khan’s stewardship of the economy didn’t help his situation.
“We used to be manhandled,” one defector from Khan’s party told the BBC, describing past calls from Pakistani intelligence services. “And that insulates the army and helps ensure its continued popularity.”Īs the BBC tells it, often direct military pressure to remain on Khan’s side had largely evaporated in the last few weeks, allowing lawmakers to defect to the opposition and ensure his downfall. “The army is perfectly happy to pull strings from behind the scenes and exert influence quietly without holding power directly because it recognizes that it ’s better to let the civilians take the fall for the policy failures,” Kugelman told Foreign Policy. Michael Kugelman, a regional expert at the Wilson Center and author of FP’s South Asia Brief, explained why the parliamentary nature of Khan’s removal obscures what lies beneath. While Khan was ousted via democratic means (a first for Pakistan), his departure had been foreshadowed late last year when he ran afoul of the country’s powerful military establishment. Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif is expected to assume the role, though if Pakistan’s history is any indication, it won’t be for long Khan’s exit means no Pakistani prime minister has ever finished a parliamentary term.
Pakistan’s parliament is set to vote in a new prime minister this morning following the ouster of Imran Khan over the weekend.
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