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Pakistan’s viral 48% poverty claim gets the denominator wrong, but rising hardship, elite privilege and costly electricity demand answers backed by evidence.
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Pakistan’s poverty graph exposes more than politics: inflation, weak governance, elite blame games, and shrinking real incomes are crushing households.
