Slayer786
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While there is no doubt that Ghaddari gov was corrupt to the core.
However foreign reserves is an issue that involves much more than Ghaddari.
Our options were foreign reserves are really limited.
Why?
We utterly refuse to copy Chinese, South Koreans, and Taiwanese.
They have shown us how to earn "large amounts of foreign reserves".
They have shown for decades that countries must work their backs off while supplying stuff to the USA.
But we refuse to see that.
Our masses utterly fail to work their backs off for the USA and EU.
And
thus our foreign reserves are no more.
peace
I dont want to go off topic, but there are reasons like not enough exports, increase in imports due to higher prices and payments to IMF and World Bank leads to shrinkage of foreign reserves. In the last 5 years, this govt has not done enough to increase exports and have regularly taken more loans from the IMF and World Bank who are happy to oblige. And Pakistan have to pay them back in time with high interests.
Thats what this govt was doing, just running the govt through more loans and using up foreign reserves.
So it was not worried about funding an ambitious plan by PAF. To the govt, it was a futile endeavour which Pakistan could ill afford or rather I should write that this govt could ill afford as they would have had to sacrifice their share of looting to grant PAF the funds.