Residents of the country queued for hours to grab coffee and pastries from Canadian chain Tim Hortons, which has opened its first outlet in the country this week.
The opening has coincided with the country’s economic crisis taking a turn for the worse, where in less than a month Pakistan’s currency has lost more than a quarter of its value against the US dollar and fuel prices have risen by almost a fifth.
All that hasn’t stopped scores of Pakistanis from flocking to the cafe since it opened on Saturday at an upmarket Lahore shopping mall. “Higher prices don’t really matter for the class of people coming here,” Ahmad Javed, a medical student who used to go to Tim Hortons while he was living in Canada, told Reuters as he queued up.
