There were calls on social media for Iqbal to resign. “I appeal to the people to reduce their tea drinking by one or two cups a day because we also borrow money for the tea, which is imported,” Iqbal said at a press conference on Tuesday. Still, the planning minister Ahsan Iqbal’s plea to drink less tea surprised many. The prime minister, Shahbaz Sharif, who took over in April after Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote, has pledged to improve the ailing economy and meet conditions set by the International Monetary Fund in an effort to revive a £5bn bailout package. The government has to spend about £500m annually from the central bank’s hard currency reserves for tea imports.
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