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Minute Mirror · 2025
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Pakistan cannot indefinitely balance CPEC commitments with IMF conditionalities. A clear strategic choice about external economic orientation is overdue.
Pakistan’s simultaneous dependence on Chinese infrastructure financing through CPEC and IMF-driven fiscal adjustment creates a fundamental strategic tension. This piece argues that ambiguity is no longer viable — Pakistan must make coherent choices about its external economic orientation.
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Dr. Ghulam Mohey-ud-din
Senior Economic Planner, Parsons Corporation · RCJY, Saudi Arabia
PhD Economics · 18+ years · 20+ peer-reviewed publications · $60M+ programmes advised
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Newspaper Column
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Minute Mirror
Year
2025
Date
9 October 2025
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