Cat food and import bills - this week in Pakistan’s business and economics twitterverse

The nation’s pet owners were up in arms this past week as it appeared that the government was banning pet food along with a number of other ‘luxury imports’ to try and decrease the import bill and save precious dollars. The intellectual integrity of this plan aside, we’re sure cats and dogs everywhere will have been happy to hear that they won’t have to slum it. Of course, less important issues were also on the social media agenda this week, such as the economy faltering and a deepingin political crisis in the country. We bring you all this and more in this week’s social media roundup. 

https://twitter.com/faisal_aftab/status/1527681596400320514

 

It's getting pretty scary on the fundraising front and the survival front. This is great advice from Faisal Aftab, a venture capitalist. 

 

https://twitter.com/Hammad_Azhar/status/1527558991181660160

Welcome to banistan. They'll take away everything you love. 

 

https://twitter.com/MiftahIsmail/status/1527673039776882690

Thank God they didn't ban animal feed. Otherwise we'd have a shortage coming up.

 

https://twitter.com/JiMurshad/status/1527587687955320834

Viva buy local

 

https://twitter.com/gonwei/status/1527593999569141760

Oh wait did we score an own goal

 

https://twitter.com/AliHasanain/status/1527563307791663106

Imagine causing a problem and then nagging someone else to fix it.

 

https://twitter.com/ali1wahab/status/1527536786628558848

The time for action was yesterday 

 

https://twitter.com/samigodil/status/1527373519985594369

We're probably the first nation asking for a fuel price hike

 

https://twitter.com/SimpGanassi/status/1526854335006646273

This is the stuff nightmares are made of

 

https://twitter.com/zuhair_abbasi/status/1527239522882396166

Why do we make even the most mundane exercises controversial?