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Pakistan: Imran Khan and the politics of inflation

Will the prime minister survive a vote of no confidence over his management of the economy at a time when Pakistanis face crippling price rises?

Zarina Bibi has in recent weeks been forced to choose between food and her family’s education. The nurse lives on the outskirts of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, working two jobs to support her ageing parents and three younger siblings.

But she has been so squeezed by rising prices she had to withhold the money for a computer course for her 20-year-old brother. “I couldn’t afford to send him and also pay for our food for a month,” says Bibi.

She blames one person above all others: Imran Khan. His “years in power have seen many poor people simply becoming unable to afford anything other than food,” Bibi says of the country’s prime minister. “How will our people continue to live like this?”

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