{"id":30154,"date":"2017-11-10T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T09:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30154"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:12:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T09:12:26","slug":"looming-economic-disaster-bad-governance-demands-early-elections-imran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30154","title":{"rendered":"Looming economic disaster, bad governance demands early elections: Imran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Nov 10 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday reiterated\u00a0his demand for early elections. In a tweet, the PTI chairman said: \u201cWith economic disaster looming and a complete paralysis of governance, Pak needs early elections to save and strengthen democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Imran in earlier tweets made references to a World Bank report on the state of Pakistan\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>The World Bank on Thursday raised alarms for Pakistan\u2019s economy and predicted that inflation would increase to six per cent next year as it linked Pakistan\u2019s bullish economic prospects with the continuation of reforms to address the current and fiscal account deficits.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The World Bank, in a highly critical report, exposed the econ disaster created by PMLN. The Report warned that Pak&#8217;s macroecon conditions significantly worsened in the past 1 yr &amp; heavy reliance on short-term foreign commercial loans wld create repayment issues for Pak.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\/status\/928870871082598405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In its twice-a-year Pakistan Development Update, The World Bank said macroeconomic imbalances have significantly worsened over the last nine to 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>It said long-terms fiscal reforms, especially those aiming to broaden the tax net and ensure tax compliance, would improve fiscal outcomes, while reforms to improve the competitiveness of the export sector and the economy will contribute to improved external balances and attract more foreign direct investment to meet the country\u2019s external financing needs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The WB Report projected that Pakistan will miss all key macro indicators&#8217; targets set for this fiscal year, notably fiscal deficit, current account deficit and annual economic growth rate <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n3L3Fyl5LJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/n3L3Fyl5LJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\/status\/928871105212895232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Nov 10 (TNS): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday reiterated\u00a0his demand for early elections. In a tweet, the PTI chairman said: \u201cWith economic disaster looming and a complete paralysis of governance, Pak needs early elections to save and strengthen democracy.\u201d Imran in earlier tweets made references to a World Bank report on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-30154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30155,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30154\/revisions\/30155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}