Petroleum Minister Musadik Malik tells Newsweek that the people of Pakistan have begun 'to lose hope, and that is basically what then feeds into the turmoil.'
, Pakistani Petroleum Minister Musadik Malik has warned that destabilizing economic and political crises surrounding the arrest and subsequent release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan are fueling a vicious cycle of unrest in the nuclear-armed nation.
What people don't see is that these poor social services and this poor economy is a consequence of a very bizarre politics, and unless the politics gets fixed, none of this is going to get fixed.Hours after the interview, newly formed Islamist militant group Tehreek-e Jihad claimed to have killed 40 Pakistani soldiers in an attack on a military camp in the southwestern province of Balochistan.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party activists and supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan clash with police outside the police headquarters where Khan was kept in custody until his release by Supreme Court order the following day, in Islamabad on May 10. More than 1,000 people have been arrested and at least eight killed in the unrest.
Malik argues that no matter what kind of political system a country has, be it democratic or authoritarian,"it's the nature and quality of economy and governance that leads to social services and leads to a particular kind of economy, and we get this map wrong over and over again." The impact of geopolitical events abroad on Pakistan's embattled quest for energy options, including U.S. sanctions against Russia and Iran, has led Malik to undergo his own crisis of faith in the international order.
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