Pakistan IMF bailout

Governments come and go, but Pakistan's economic woes – and its love/hate relationship with the IMF – remain constant.

However, the funding body's representatives say that additional measures are needed to bring the budget in line with its objectives.

Rapprochement could help ease Pakistan’s troubles with negotiating loans from the IMF.

The new government could either take the decision of cutting fuel subsidies or call for fresh elections and leave that tough decision to an interim government.

Its sentencing of Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed is grounded in economic realism.

Issue de-linkage is the need of the hour when it comes to Islamabad-Washington relations.

While there are positive signs, the IMF bailout conditions continue to pinch for average Pakistanis.

This wasn’t Pakistan’s first IMF bailout, and it won’t be its last – unless the IMF changes its approach.

Many Pakistanis see the terms of the $6 billion bailout package as a hostile takeover of their economy and government.

The task of effectively managing the economy is going to be the government’s biggest political challenge in the coming months.

A relationship previously specific in scope has expanded beyond closed diplomatic corridors, bringing new challenges.