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A Pakistani minister has caused a storm in a teacup by urging citizens to cut back on drinking “chai” as a way to preserve foreign currency that pays to import the leaves used in brewing the popular beverage. Pakistan is the world’s biggest importer of tea — known locally as “chai” — with the latest government figures showing it pays over $515mn a year to bring in the commodity, mostly from Kenya. The country is suffering a long-brewing economic crisis, however, with dwindling foreign reserves used to pay crippling debt. “I would also appeal to the nation to cut down one or two cups of tea because the tea we import is also imported on credit,” Ahsan Iqbal, minister for planning and developm

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