As inflation steadily crept up to reach a five-year high of 9.4pc in the first eight months of the PTI government the number of views on all uploaded videos of the ‘92 Cricket World Cup highlights’ on video sharing site Youtube increased proportionately. “It’s truly remarkable that with every 10 basis point increase in the CPI figure the number of views would see a proportionate surge in the number of views. Jaisay World Cup laaya tha itnay saal pehlay, ussi taraan naya Pakistan laayega meira Kaptaan” (that’s what a real leader looks like! My Captain will deliver a New Pakistan just as he delivered the world cup all those years ago). To a question regarding why he had viewed the video 325 times in the past 8 months he answered “Well, just look at him.

Source: Pakistan Today April 19, 2019 10:41 UTC