#Pakistan: The prospect to delay the elections. Arif Rafiq, GlobelyNews.com
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🗓️ 1 August 2023
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#Pakistan: The prospect to delay the elections. Arif Rafiq, GlobelyNews.com
https://globelynews.com/south-asia/pakistan-2023-elections-postponed/
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| 0:20.0 | This is CBS Eye in the World. I'm John Bachelors. |
| 0:28.0 | Pakistan, a nation that deviled by natural catastrophes and man-made catastrophes these last years. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm thinking of the flood, the famine, and the attacks by the Taliban in Pakistan against the frontier. |
| 0:44.0 | Now, a mass murder of a party sympathetic to the Taliban, a mass murder said to have been launched by ISIS. |
| 0:50.0 | All of this turmoil and elections, I welcome our prophet of globally news to help me understand the governance of Pakistan in this vulnerable time. |
| 1:01.0 | And what happens next? The Sharif government has announced that it will step down or step aside to a new election process. |
| 1:11.0 | But that in itself requires explanation. |
| 1:14.0 | The national assembly meets for a few more weeks. |
| 1:17.0 | And then after that, there's a time period in which there will be a caretaker government. |
| 1:22.0 | Why does that matter? Because our reports, they need money. |
| 1:26.0 | Our for very good evening to they need a lot of money. |
| 1:29.0 | And how can they raise that quickly, presuming there is a caretaker government? Good evening to you. |
| 1:34.0 | Hi, John. Thank you for having me on. |
| 1:36.0 | Well, Pakistan much like Egypt is in serious economic distress. |
| 1:40.0 | They traditionally defer to their Gulf Arab partners for the quick confusion of cash. |
| 1:47.0 | They've relied on them for decades. |
| 1:50.0 | Now, the Gulf Arab states are saying we're not going to play by those rules again. |
| 1:53.0 | We want skin in the game. We want equity. |
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