K.Venkateshwar.Rao

Pakistan’s economy is on the brink of collapse, and Prime Minister Imran Khan is facing immense pressure from the opposition parties to bail out Pakistan from the precarious situation. With outstanding debt of more than $85 billion and the annual inflation rate at 11.63 percent in August, 2019 (the highest inflation rate since May, 2012), Pakistan is in dire straits with growing pressure from the people to relieve them from skyrocketing prices of food & non-alcoholic beverages, transport, clothing & footwear, furniture & household equipment, and miscellaneous goods & services. Against the backdrop of growing dissent among the masses, the abrogation of article 370 in Kashmir by the Narendra Modi-led government of India has come in like a shot in the arm for Imran Khan. PM Khan is leveraging it to create a war bogey with India to divert the attention of the people from the precarious economic condition. Why can Pakistan not wage war with India? According to t...