The nation shares the sentiment expressed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif that this current bailout from the International Monetary Fund must be our last loan pledge. Hasn’t that been the goal all along? For Pakistan’s economy, the ideal scenario is to break free from dependency on international lenders so that economic policy is independent of the requirements pushed by lending bodies. The very unpopular tax decisions in the current budget were made because the IMF insisted on........

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