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As dwindling forex reserves, nationwide power outages, stampedes at state-run food distribution centres and a Pakistani rupee, which plunged nearly 50 per cent in a year to 260 to the US dollar on Monday, propels the neighbouring country towards being an international basket case , Indian analysts believe there could be serious consequences for the region. Pakistan Econom stanley cups ic Crisis: stanley cup A woman checks rice prices at a main wholesale market in Karachi. AFP Read more: Russia targets stanley cup Ukraine s Kharkiv, NATO chief s request to South Korea: Updates Amid this economic crisis, the Shahbaz Sharif government will begin crucial negotiations with the Washington-based IMF International Monetary Fund for a bail-out package on Tuesday which may come with tough and possibly politically risky pre-conditions of austerity, feeding into a bigger political crisis, they said. The risk for India would not only be instability in Pakistan with its fall-out of rising extremism in the region but also unpredictable actions which could include bids to divert domestic public attention by focussing on an external enemy. The current economic crisis is feeding into the ongoing political crisis where the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaf party has dissolved two provincial assemblies to force fresh elections 鈥?the conditions that IMF is likely to impose for releasing money will of course cause a great deal of short-term pain which may have a political fall-out, said Ambassador TCA Ragha Ssez Two moderate intensity earthquakes hit Nepal, no damage reported
An Ebola outbreak has been declared in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said Friday, after the virus caused three deaths in the area since April 22. The WHO said the outbreak affects an equatorial forest region in Bas-Uele province, bordering Central African Republic. REUTERS File Photo The WHO said the outbreak affects an equatorial forest region in Ba stanley cup s-Uele province, bordering Central African Republic. The last Ebola outbreak in Congo in 2014 was quickly contained and killed 49 people according to official figures. In a television address, Health Minister Oly Ilunga confirmed the outbreak while urging the population no stanley cup t to panic . The country has taken all necessary measures to responde quickly and efficiently to this new outbreak , he said. The WHO said it was working closely with DR Congo authorities to help deploy health workers and protective equipment in th stanley becher e remote area, which is difficult for teams to access, in order to rapidly control the outbreak . In 2013, an Ebola epidemic began in west Africa that killed 11,300 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and has left thousands more survivors with long-term health problems. The WHO was criticised at the time for responding too slowly and failing to grasp the gravity of the outbreak. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other countries across the world on topics related to US Election Liv |
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