'Pakistanis have become psychologically immune to the threat of the disease, while remaining as vulnerable as ever to becoming infected.' Opinion | tomthehack
by overseas Pakistanis are also expected to slide drastically, exacerbated by the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in the oil-dependent Gulf Arab economies, hitting dependent households across the country. With capital fleeing to relative safe havens, foreign direct investment will also be negligible until the global economy stabilises.
This all explains Khan's focus on the economy. It does not, however, justify the Pakistani state's negligent management of the public healthcare emergency. failed to reach a consensus on how to respond. In large part, that is because the response is being led by politicians, army generals and civil servants, not public healthcare experts.
This has resulted in a heated partisan debate amplified by a national media notoriously bereft of common sense. The recent relaxation of a two-week lockdown in different parts of the country was reported as "good news" prompting most Pakistanis to throw caution to the wind and treat it as a resumption of ordinary life.
Ignoring edicts issued by prominent Muslim scholars around the world, Pakistan's populist clergy has deepened the public's confusion by agitating for the reopening of mosques for
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