Ministry of Foreign Affairs warns: Be careful to go to Pakistan! What happened to Batie?

A few days ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an announcement reminding China citizens not to go to Pakistan as far as possible, and China people who are already there should also try not to go out.

What happened to Batie?

The main reason for this announcement is that the security situation in Pakistan is deteriorating. Especially on June 30, 65438, a very serious terrorist attack occurred in Peshawar, an important city in northwest Pakistan. Someone walked into a mosque and detonated a bomb, killing more than 65,438+000 prayers and injuring more than 200 people.

Similar things have happened from time to time in Pakistan in recent years, because China has invested a lot in Pakistan, which often affects China people. For example, there were several similar incidents last year.

Why has the security situation in Pakistan deteriorated?

The first is the spillover effect of Afghanistan.

To the west of Pakistan is Afghanistan, and the border between the two countries is called Durand Line. Durand, the foreign minister of British India, drew such a line casually on the map. Pashtuns living on both sides of the border were divided into two countries overnight, but they were basically under tribal jurisdiction because of inconvenient transportation.

Therefore, even today, border control is often ineffective, and people on both sides can move freely. Many Afghan militants also tend to hide in Pakistan.

In this way, the security situation in Pakistan, especially in the northwest, is closely related to Afghanistan. There is a Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Taliban in Pakistan may be more extreme and cruel.

Secondly, Pakistan is on the verge of economic collapse.

Pakistan is one of the long-term strongholds of terrorist organizations in the Middle East, with Indian-backed terrorist forces inside, the People's Liberation Army and the Pakistani Taliban outside, which have launched terrorist attacks on China citizens many times.

According to Mohammad Dahl, Pakistan's Minister of Economy, Pakistan spent 1/4 of its national foreign exchange reserves in one week, leaving only enough foreign exchange reserves for one month. Due to the lack of dollars to pay for import orders, Pakistan's ports are full of tens of thousands of containers. If there is no new inflow of dollars, Pakistan's economy will collapse at any time.

Pakistan itself has some problems.

For example, on the issue of education, a large number of children and teenagers go to religious schools. They are not exposed to any modern ideas, but accept a lot of conservative and extremely backward ideas. In addition, Pakistan also has its own separatist problems, and the most famous one here is to liberate Tao. He has been committed to making Baluchistan province separate from Pakistan through this armed means, and the well-known Gwadar Port is located above Peru.

So what caused Pakistan's economic collapse?

1. Energy prices fluctuate greatly.

Pakistan's energy price fluctuates greatly due to the ever-changing energy subsidy policy, but the power sector has actually implemented a nationwide power outage while raising prices. Which country is so troublesome? The second major guide that can withstand is the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Second, the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Pakistan is a country highly dependent on imported food and industrial equipment. The largest industry is the textile industry, and the main grain imports are Russia and Ukraine. Most of Ukraine's food is shipped to Europe, while Pakistan has no dollars and can't buy extra food.

In Pakistan, at present, you have to wait in line for three hours to buy a bakery. Not to mention the high price, you may not even get it. The simplified economic structure makes Pakistan earn less and less dollars in foreign trade, but it can't be spent at all, and the foreign exchange reserve pool quickly bottomed out.

Third, natural disasters.

Since mid-June 2022, many provinces in Pakistan have been hit by several rounds of heavy rains, causing serious floods. This unprecedented flood flooded the land area of Pakistan13, directly causing 8 million people to be displaced and economic losses exceeding 30 billion US dollars. As cotton and grain growing areas were hit by floods, Pakistan not only suffered more food shortages, but also suffered huge losses in the textile industry, the core pillar.

Fourth, the foreign exchange crisis.

Afghanistan next door was frozen by the United States for $9 billion. Like Pakistan, Afghanistan is short of foreign exchange and dollars, but Afghanistan has brought Pakistan a radical move. The Taliban in Afghanistan stipulated that only US dollars were accepted for coal exports to Pakistan, which robbed Pakistan of all black dollars, further aggravating Pakistan's dollar foreign exchange crisis.

How terrible is the bankruptcy of a country?

The worst that Pakistan will face may be bankruptcy. As far as national bankruptcy is concerned, the latest bankrupt country is Sri Lanka. Whatever the reason for its bankruptcy, the terrible thing is that the result is already terrible. Simply put, after the bankruptcy of Sri Lanka, it entered a state of total anarchy, with no energy imports, no food imports, no material imports, and all urban functions stopped.

In other words, no department can guarantee the most basic things that life needs to touch. There is no running water, no electricity, no one cares about domestic garbage, and domestic wastewater flows everywhere. To exaggerate, the local currency may not even be as good as toilet paper, which is used less and less.

In anarchy, the word "society" is meaningless, public security cannot be guaranteed, and there will be no control over smashing walls, let alone personal and property safety. It can be exaggerated to say that those who can escape can only feel in situ, and those who can't escape may risk their lives to go out for a roll of toilet paper.