War in the Middle East is worsening economic crisis in Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Soon after the war between the US, Israel and Iran began, its ripple effects were evident.<\/p>\n
Pakistan stands out as one of the countries paying a heavy price.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s heavily dependent on energy supplies from the Gulf.<\/p>\n
And with the Strait of Hormuz blocked, the government increased the fuel price twice in a month.<\/p>\n
The increases triggered mass protests, with people furious at the government\u2019s decision to pass on the burden of higher costs.<\/p>\n
Why is Pakistan more vulnerable to the current crisis than other countries?<\/p>\n
Presenter:<\/strong> Rishaad Salamat<\/p>\n Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n Kaiser Bengali \u2013 Economist and former head of the Chief Minister\u2019s Policy Reform Unit for Balochistan<\/p>\n Michael Kugelman \u2013 Senior fellow for South Asia at the Atlantic Council<\/p>\n Ali Salman \u2013 Founder and CEO of the Policy Research Institute of Market Economy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" War in the Middle East is worsening economic crisis in Pakistan. Soon after the war between the US, Israel and Iran began, its ripple effects were evident. Pakistan stands out as one of the countries paying a heavy price. It\u2019s heavily dependent on energy supplies from the Gulf. And with the Strait of Hormuz blocked, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}