IMF aside, be proud of your poverty. There is something of value in it. The poverty is because of lack of FDI, keeping Pakistan on the FATF grey list indefinitely, restricting the growth of CPEC, harsh conditions imposed on Pakistan's economy through IMF/WB, West restricting military sales to Pakistan and quite a few other ways. However, the poverty allows Pakistan to not give in to the diktats of others at the expense of its own long term interests.
1) You remain on the grey list because you FAIL to pass the necessary legislation and setup the oversight required by all countries in FATF.
Its purpose is to stop organised and inadvertent funding of terrorist groups. This is Pakistan's strategic and deliberate choice made for purposes that most in the world are aware of.
2) The IMF is a bank of LAST resort. Most countries in their history go to the IMF maybe once or twice. Pakistan has always approached the IMF more than 22 times. Each time Pakistan promises structural change like getting the VERY RICH to pay taxes on vast estates, to privatise failing costly govt owned factories and companies, to allow the State Bank to make sensible decisions re inflation , money supply, forex holdings etc. Instead the Govt uses it as its own personal piggy bank to subsidize the richest in the country.
IMF is getting strict with Pakistan because this is the 22nd time of making promises and failing to deliver.
The WB and ADB the Islamic banks , the Japanese Banks have been VERY generous .
3) there is minimal restriction as long as you have the money to buy defence products. Unfortunately , Pakistan is like a heroin addict that had become hooked on free and subsidised weapons. It cannot comprehend that you have to pay for expensive habits.
Now Pakistan jumps from bed to bed. First the Americans and Brits , then the Arabs , back to the Americans but now firmly in the Chinese bed after a brief flirtation with Turkey. Its making eyes at Russia too.
4) How exactly is the growth of CPEC being restricted ???. The Chinese hold the purse strings and employ Chinese Labour to build white elephant infrastructure in your country. You own the debt to the Chinese and they will collect.
The Chinese unlike the Americans do not freely give tens of billions as they did to Pakistan.
They will want their pound of flesh one way or another