Fuck you have too wonder if these people believe in free markets, you have a little move down and they ban short selling, what are they gonna do when the market plummets 20% anyway, order asset managers to buy?
As they are clearly looking to Pakistan and Malaysia for policy guidance I imagine the next move will be to ban stocks going down and to legislate against any exodus of foreign investors funds.
all the want to be gods of politics will just hold up a healthy and necessary recession to become the crashing depression, I say they should at least flip a coin when making major decisions like this, there is much more justification in that method.