Recent Chaos which IK is trying to address at the moment were because of the following bad/insane policies.
1- Letting imports bill unchecked to fuel the growth, while no other venues were explore for growth. For the idiot Nawaz growth, or "Taraqi" as they put it is to complete one or two trophy projects to fool the uneducated idiots, who are left without education and work training to live in abject misery.
2- The traders took over the country, without paying any taxes it must be added. In the absence of any manufacturing base or investment in the large and medium scale industries the demands naturally filled by the imports. Traders make huge profits, never paid any taxes and became a mafia. The same mafia is now not happy after the current government started to demand registration and paying of taxes. They are fuelling Diesel's dharana.
3- To please the crooks who provide support to criminal enterprises AKA PMLN and PPP were awarded lucrative insane contracts in energy field to rip off Pakistanis. That resulted in the accumulation of "circular debt". That debt circle fuelled the Energy price rises, making Pakistan uncompetitive. This resulted in crumbling of the remaining industrial base and hit the exports of textile etc.
4- As a result the trade and current account deficits increased and became out of control.
5- That effected the rupees valuation, it gradually lost value over the years.
6- To stablise the rupees, Dar played the gimmick instead of making the tough decisions and tackling the underlining problems which plagued the economy. He borrowed at a very high rate to show healthy foreign currency reserves.
The crooks are still misleading the nation.