Pakistan, Jan. 24 -- If oil prices were raised this week because the government's debt position didn't allow it to protect domestic consumers from international price trends any longer, as the prime minister himself explained, then it shouldn't be too hard to correct course since Brent crude has now collapsed in the international market. Demand destruction in China, the world's largest oil importer, along with fears that the UK lockdown could extend till the summer because of an out-of-control Covid variant there, not to mention signs of a third wave of the virus in many parts of Europe as well as the US, have forced a revision of the outlook for at least the next quarter. That's why as late as Friday, the last trading day of the week, oi...