Martial Law is a history in Pakistan and I don't foresee in near future. Probably not before 2025 or never.
Regarding the Foreign Reserves we all know the reserves were depleted to around 6.5 billion dollars back in 2009? not far after Musharraf exiting the show. We all know about the reasons of sudden downfall in the reserves as the reserves were stabilised artificially from 2007 onwards. We had a great economic boom between 2004-07 and there is no doubt about the good economic policies of the government.
Having said that, I foresee major economic improvements in the upcoming months as this Government has certainly proven to be better than it's predecessor (PPP) in terms of economic policies and reforms. What do you think is the right figure for foreign reserves if you are analysing the economy by foreign reserves only?
Belgium has about 2.25x larger GDP than us, highly developed, 13x more exports than us, 20 times more GDP per capita, technically one of the highly developed country on earth and yet her foreign reserves are only 2x more than us? Same goes for Australia, Spain and many other developed countries. These countries despite being money rich do not have large foreign reserves as compared to USA, Japan, China or India.
Are we really better than Ireland who has 10 times less foreign reserves than us but every economic indicator is 10-20 times better?
Unknown country like Algeria has about 20x times more reserves as compared to us, but everything else is Average to OK.
Foreign reserves is not the sole parameter of analysing economy. If the author's sole base of analysing the economy is the foreign reserves and Martial Law should be brought back just for this reason then I feel like committing suicide by laughing out loudly.