\n\n“In April, cricket-star-turned-pseudo-populist Prime Minister Imran Khan sparked a constitutional crisis when he tried to stave off a vote of no-confidence by dissolving the Pakistani parliament. Eventually, the country\u2019s supreme court ruled that he had acted unconstitutionally, the uproarious no-confidence vote proceeded, and he lost the prime ministership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since then, opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif became prime minister and has been presiding over a country hard hit by economic malaise<\/a> \u2014 rising debt, a foreign currency shortage, and record inflation \u2014 deepened by the wide-ranging knock-on effects for energy and food insecurity presented by the Ukraine-Russia war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All the while, the former prime minister has continued to hold political rallies<\/a> that reinforce his street power. In turn, the government has launched a crackdown on Khan. Most recently, the police issued terrorism charges against him<\/a> over a speech he delivered earlier this month. The next general election will be held in 2023, but Khan has been calling for early elections<\/a>. Taken all together, it threatens to send Pakistan into an even more dangerous political phase.” “In April, cricket-star-turned-pseudo-populist Prime Minister Imran Khan sparked a constitutional crisis when he tried to stave off a vote of no-confidence by dissolving the Pakistani parliament. Eventually, the country\u2019s supreme court ruled that he had acted unconstitutionally, the uproarious no-confidence vote proceeded, and he lost the prime ministership. All the while, the former prime minister has continued to hold political rallies that reinforce his street power. In turn, the government has launched a crackdown on Khan. Most recently, the police issued terrorism charges against him over a speech he delivered earlier this month. The next general election will be held in 2023, but Khan has been calling for early elections. Taken all together, it threatens to send Pakistan into an even more dangerous political phase.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[729,105,228,229,104,1743,1183],"class_list":["post-9170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asia","tag-climate-change","tag-flooding","tag-floods","tag-global-warming","tag-pakistan","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9171,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions\/9171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2022\/8\/30\/23327725\/pakistan-flooding-unprecedented-political-economic-humanitarian-crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nSince then, opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif became prime minister and has been presiding over a country hard hit by economic malaise \u2014 rising debt, a foreign currency shortage, and record inflation \u2014 deepened by the wide-ranging knock-on effects for energy and food insecurity presented by the Ukraine-Russia war.<\/p>\n