The IMF must stop bailing out Pakistan

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The International Monetary Fund, the global lender of last resort for national governments, will meet on Friday to consider a new $1.3 billion loan to Pakistan under its Resilience and Sustainability Facility. The loan would be the 25th that the IMF has provided Pakistan, and it follows a $1.3 billion loan for climate change in March and a $7 billion loan of which the IMF releases $1 billion annually.

Following last month’s Pahalgam massacre — Pakistan’s attempt to replicate via its terrorist proxies Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel — the United States, international community, and IMF should slam the door on any additional funding for Pakistan. It’s time for tough love.

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