Uzair and Amber talk about the ongoing economic crisis in Pakistan, where the dollar is in short supply and the IMF program remains off track. We also talk about Xi’s trip to Saudi Arabia, where the joint statement from Saudi and China was 4,000 words long, as well as the failed coup attempt in Germany.

Finally, we have an expert interview to help us make sense of the elections results in India and what it means for the BJP, Narendra Modi, and the opposition Congress and AAP parties in the country.

The articles we mentioned in this episode are as follows:

-  TSA deadline will be missed by Shahbaz Rana: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2390421/tsa-deadline-will-be-missed-imf

-  Another missed target: Pakistan unlikely to fulfill claim of implementing TSA by year-end by Ariba Shahid: https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2022/12/10/another-missed-target-pakistan-unlikely-to-fulfill-claim-of-implementing-tsa-by-year-end/?s=08

-  Day X podcast by the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/podcasts/far-right-german-extremism.html

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Chapters:

0:00 Introduction

0:50 Daily Mail Apology

3:48 Economic crisis and dollar shortage

17:29 Punjab assembly dissolution

19:16 Xi in Saudi and its implications

30:03 Coup attempt in Germany

34:20 India elections interview with Adnan Ansari

55:27 Analysis on Indian elections

1:02:46 Winners and losers of the week