WATCH: Amid worsening economic crisis, Pak ex-PM Nawaz Sharif arrives in Bentley for shopping in London

The video of Sharif has attracted widespread criticism from many corners of Pakistan. The country is reeling under an economic crisis. The Pakistani Rupee has fallen 35 percent in value against the US Dollar over the past year. The country has been unable to import key resources, with many economic experts predicting a foreign exchange reserve disaster like that seen in neighbouring Sri Lanka.

Inflation in the country has reached highs of nearly 25 percent even as the country’s interest rates are at their 24-year high at 17 percent. The economic crisis has been blamed on a multitude of reasons including the devastating 2022 monsoon floods in the country, rising costs of key imports like food, medicine and fuel, financial mismanagement and entrenched corruption along with ineffectual governance. While the country may not face a complete fiscal collapse like that seen in Sri Lanka, due to the simple fact that it owes too much money to many important countries like China and Sri Lanka, the economic crisis has caused millions of citizens in the world’s fifth most populated country to suffer.