Foreign Debt close to 100 Billion Dollars. Exports are less than half of imports. Huge principal and interest debt repayments to be made. Defence budget can't be lowered due to Indian threat. GDP per capita so pathetic that we are 174th out of 200 or so nations and it is between countries like Myanmar, Lesotho, Senegal and Combodia whereas countries like Iraq, Libya, Jamaica, Guatemala etc have many times our GDP per capita. That's the real strength of the economy of nuclear power Pakistan.
Most people can't understand this real economic situation (which has gone down over the years up till this point), but the reality is there's little much you can do in this situation to avoid default on our debt repayments (which would be a catastrophic event, in case it happens).
As long as you take on more foreign debt to keep running the economy and forget about boosting exports (which was the strategy in the past governments), you can continue for some time and artificially manage to maintain exchange rate parity, but there's a limit of debt you can take before default is imminent. That point has reached. This Govt has so far tried not to take additional debt so that's the reason you see the impact on people, as either the expenses, development work and imports have to be reduced or revenue sources (taxes and duties and exports have to be increased to get the funds.
The performance of an economic manager should be judged over a longer time horizon as to what that person did in improving the country's economic situation mentioned in 1st para.