Salman Rafi Sheikh is a political scientist specializing in political history with a focus on ethno-nationalism, identity politics and post-colonialism. He is the author of "The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977."
With Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves shrinking to a record-low $8.9 billion in early June, pushing Pakistan's economy to the edge of bankruptcy, a logical step would have been to cut nondevelopment expenditures.
