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Protests against inflation and high electricity bills in Pakistan

Note by Fazal Rahman

IMF imposed conditions are one of the major causes of extremely high and unaffordable inflation and prices of food and other essentials in Pakistan, including the costs of electricity.  Countrywide protests are happening against that.  IMF, the government, businesses, corporations, and the upper classes there have been shifting the burdens of severe economic crises onto overwhelming majority of working class and impoverished people there. 

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