Pakistan secures $1.7 Billion debt relief agreement with France.

[Tomcats]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1341039976029376518

https://twitter.com/x/status/1340992451297861632

 

[Markandeya]

Some more tweets warranted to Abuse France.....right.

 

[Green disc]

Some more tweets warranted to Abuse France.....right.

 

[Jungibaaz]

Lol, merci beaucoup la France.

Time and again, we are shown our aukat. First with Saudi and GCC and KL conference, then again by Saudi after SMQ's statements and recent steps they took withdraw financial support, and now far from the PM's broadsides on twitter against France and Pakistanis vowing a boycott of France, we're graciously accepting both their aid and their debt relief.

This should make it clear, power projection and diplomatic hardball is something to be played when you're not living off the lines of credit supplied by strangers.

 

[m52k85]

And each person in Pakistan could not even donate 1 dollar to slap on the face of our sworn enemy

 

[Kambojaric]

Lol, merci beaucoup la France.

Time and again, we are shown our aukat. First with Saudi and GCC and KL conference, then again by Saudi after SMQ's statements and recent steps they took withdraw financial support, and now far from the PM's broadsides on twitter against France and Pakistanis vowing a boycott of France, we're graciously accepting both their aid and their debt relief.

This should make it clear, power projection and diplomatic hardball is something to be played when you're not living off the lines of credit supplied by strangers.

But hey we changed our Facebook profile pics to condemn France right! I am sure France will take heed to what we have to say in the future now!

 

[Jungibaaz]

And each person in Pakistan could not even donate 1 dollar to slap on the face of our sworn enemy

The thing is that Pakistani diaspora already go out of their way to supply much needed foreign exchange and remittances to the state of Pakistan. I know how much I send back home every month to support family. These amounts annualized are far more than what the PM or his advisors expected would be sufficient if every expat were to make a one-time payment of in service of the country. The point being, this is not the way to save the country.

The government has taken quite a few positive but unpopular steps to correct trade imbalances and help get us some more financial stability. We need that stability to persist, and then balance it with as much sustainable economic growth as we can manage.

If say 10 years from now, we have a stable political system with a credible government that foreigners don't view with some trust, as well as a system in which investors can have certainty, better established rule of law, and slow but sustainable growth... then we would need no foreign loans, any aid we would get would be nice to have, but not necessary. Only then you can take principled stances on matters when you feel compelled to.

 

[313ghazi]

Lol, merci beaucoup la France.

Time and again, we are shown our aukat. First with Saudi and GCC and KL conference, then again by Saudi after SMQ's statements and recent steps they took withdraw financial support, and now far from the PM's broadsides on twitter against France and Pakistanis vowing a boycott of France, we're graciously accepting both their aid and their debt relief.

This should make it clear, power projection and diplomatic hardball is something to be played when you're not living off the lines of credit supplied by strangers.

Talk is cheap, we talked, Macron talked, Erdogran talked, everyone talked. Even Pakistan can afford talk.

In politics it's more important to be seen to be doing something than actually doing something.

 

[GHALIB]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1341039976029376518

https://twitter.com/x/status/1340992451297861632

no problem , forget and forgive .

 

[tman786]

Slum dogs will get a bigger debt relief

 

[Death Professor]

Offf tauba, yeh din bhi dekhna tha...

@El Sidd

 

[Imran Khan]

that is really helpful thank you france and EU .

 

[313ghazi]

it is in the nature of the sub-continent ... to be rash, immature, abusive, illogical, ungrateful and so on and on

PS.
"The Government of Pakistan has successfully negotiated and concluded rescheduling agreements with 19 bilateral creditors, including members of the Paris club,"

It's also clever politics. You can play the hero on the domestic front and on the foreign front give them a nod a wink that it's just business.

 

[xyxmt]

I think Pakistan assured French that we will go easy on you

 

[El Sidd]

Offf tauba, yeh din bhi dekhna tha...

@El Sidd

We should consider ourselves lucky. government could have erected a macron statue in Islamabad and there ain't a damn thing citizens could do