... taxes, removing ill-advised subsidies on fuel and food prices, and removing the artificial peg of the Pakistani rupee to the US dollar, resulting in a freefall of the rupee. The talks concluded in July, just in time to help avert economic crisis with the release of USD 3 billion; and in November, when...

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