Salman Rafi Sheikh is a researcher with the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and the author of "The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism: Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977."
Fund should have demanded cuts to elite benefits rather than burdened public

Shehbaz Sharif on April 12 when he was installed as prime minister in Islamabad : The latest aid deal will not cure Pakistan's political instability. (Handout photo from Pakistan's Press Information Department) © AP
Salman Rafi Sheikh is a researcher with the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and the author of "The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism: Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977."