Yup indeed, mentioned here
Sri Lanka - Pakistan - Bangladesh Chartbook #153 surveys the polycrisis in South Asia. How finance, energy, geopolitics and climate shocks intersect. https://t.co/n1qg82ZzRD pic.twitter.com/SOPLeWXYKW— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) September 22, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 22 September 2022 11:10 (one year ago) link
Pakistan—notorious for its 23 IMF bailouts, for being a nuclear-armed state with active terrorist groups, for suffering climate catastrophe of biblical proportions—is being screwed by its domestic elites.Our latest @polycrisis newsletter is daaark.https://t.co/2wz48agCbq— Albert Pinto (@70sBachchan) February 24, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 18:02 (eleven months ago) link
written before Khan just got arrested and bundled into the back of a van by cops wearing riot gear, politics is fairly fucking crazy in Pakistan.
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 18:26 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67281691
"In the last two months around 200,000 Afghan nationals have already left Pakistan ahead of the 1 November deadline, according to the Pakistan government. The recent daily returnee figures are three times higher than normal, says the Taliban refugee ministry spokesman Abdul Mutaleb Haqqani."
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 November 2023 13:39 (five months ago) link
Pakistan is planning to forcibly deport 1.7 million Afghan refugees. This is a direct violation of the basic right to asylum and a death sentence to the many Afghans who would be targeted by the Taliban. Pakistan must change course. https://t.co/fX9kcyN9fg— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 2, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 November 2023 15:33 (five months ago) link
Terrible
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 November 2023 17:30 (five months ago) link