"The problem here is that no one is willing to back down; the government is not going to resign, the protestors have no budged on their demand that the government needs to resign...the longer this goes, the more concern there is for the economic situation in Pakistan, which was already quite grave before this crisis began." says Michael Kugelman in this interview.
Michael Kugelman of the Asia Program talks to CNN's Nina Dos Santos about the economic impacts of the Pakistan protests, claiming that, "the longer this goes, the more concern there is for the economic situation in Pakistan, which was already quite grave before this crisis began." He highlights the poor security situation and the energy crisis as two main factors contributing to the struggling economy.
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