[2] Pakistan was "plunged into chaos" as president Ghulam Ishaq Khan and prime minister Nawaz Sharif duelled for supremacy.

It was then that the army chief Gen Abdul Waheed Kakar called both the President and Prime minister to negotiate this political power crisis.

Qureshi was appointed as the caretaker prime minister in hopes that "[he could] ease Pakistan over the monumental crisis its political and military leaders had created".

The ministry also published a "sensational roster of the amounts paid in income tax by some of the richest people in the country, including the Sharif family".

He cut government spending, raised taxes, devalued the Pakistani rupee and fattened a thinning foreign reserve account.