investments pakistan is receiving from its allies in the gulf saudi arabia was the 1st country emraan khan busy did after becoming prime minister in august the kingdom's given islamabad billions of dollars and currency support and offered an economic package worth $20000000000.00 back a stand has been bailed out by the i.m.f. 13 times since the late 1980 s. the latest $6000000000.00 another $6000000000.00 has come from the united arab emirates china is another major investor it's committed $60000000000.00 for the china pakistan economic corridor project and tens of billions more under the belt and road initiative on top of that kottaras planning to announce investments and different sectors in pakistan. imran khan had to extend his hand to all his friends in the region even if they're no longer friends with each other he's facing a collapsing economy and needs their support even an afternoon snack has become a luxury for many of his countrymen people in pakistan are struggling to buy the basics as inflation reaches its highest level in 5 years. the governments have to borrow heavily focuse

we thank you very much for speaking to us from khartoum al-jazeera correspondent emraan khan has just come back from khartoum and he says the protest movement is now in a new fates. well if you speak to the protest movement there are really 2 very distinct periods now that they talk about they talk about before june the 3rd and after june the 3rd not before june the sit in was a very peaceful it was almost like carnival like atmosphere and we would go down to the protest signs every night to see what was going on to do our reporting and what we saw was a young people old people families coming and want the people providing face painting services you see these little kids with sudanese flags across their faces would be people giving lectures there was a lending library on the would be people creating and then june the thing that happened now on june the 3rd in the very early hours of the morning they actually blocked off her telephone stopped us from leaving and what happened was i went out onto the balcony with my colleagues just to see what was going on we were hearing sporadic gunfi