Moni Mohsin

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People queueing for fuel at a petrol station after a country-wide power breakdown due to a government energy-saving measure, Peshawar, Pakistan, 23 January 2023. Photograph: Hussain Ali/Pacific Press/REX/Shutterstock

Last month, Anthony Soshil went to renew his passport in Lahore at a normally sleepy bureaucratic office. He had a contact there and expected to be ushered straight to the counter. Instead, he was flung into a melee of thousands of desperate people. Fights were breaking out everywhere. Police were summoned to quell the crowds. Quickly overwhelmed, the police called the army.

Last year, more than 800,000 Pakistanis left the country in search of better economic prospects abroad. With rocketing inflation and the rupee devaluing by 30% during 2022, millions of urban middle-class people have been pushed to the brink of poverty.…  Seguir leyendo »