With elections due later this year, short-term benefits of this anarchic show of support may be big for Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek- e-Insaf (PTI). But it is inflicting a heavy cost on Pakistan, already battered by a polycrisis of its own.Pakistan desperately needs to jump-start the $6.5 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has been stalled because the Pakistani government failed to meet loan conditions.