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IT was a Friday afternoon in May 2019. State Bank of Pakistan Governor Tariq Bajwa was in Islamabad with the IMF mission, flanked by his technical team I led. Unbeknownst to him, his successor was already in the country. By evening, Bajwa had resigned. The finance secretary at the time told me a new governor would be appointed by nightfall: Reza Baqir, the IMF’s resident representative in Egypt,…

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