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We Educate Our People, Then We Export Them
We Educate Our People, Then We Export Them A budget that will not teach its children, and cannot keep the few it does By Asad Baig • Written from outside Pakistan • June 2026 • Approx. 9-min read I know that most of the operating cost of education sits in the provincial budgets. I will say that at...
Asad BaigThe Riba Factory: Pakistan's Economy at War With Allah and His Rasool Why I believe a budget that pays 43 percent in interest is a machine for sood By Asad Baig • Written from outside Pakistan • June 2026 • Approx. 9-min read I want to write about the thing that pains me most in this whole budget....
Asad BaigIs BISP Political? The Sindh Question Nobody Will Answer Why I believe a permanent handout has become a machine for votes By Asad Baig • Written from outside Pakistan • June 2026 • Approx. 9-min read I am going to say something here that some people will not like, and I am going to mark it clearly,...
Asad BaigBISP rises to Rs 844.8 billion. Is it a plan for the poor, or a machine for votes? I read the numbers, and I tell you what I believe.
Asad BaigEducation gets 63 paisa in every 100 rupees. Health gets 20. The environment gets one. What Pakistan really spends on its own people, and the excuse they hide behind.
Asad Baig43 rupees of every 100 gone to interest before a single school is built. Rs 8,054 billion in one year. I walk you through Pakistan's debt trap.
Asad BaigI opened Pakistan's 2026-27 budget and read every rupee. Rs 18,771 billion, and where it really goes, in plain words anyone can follow.
Asad BaigI read Pakistan's 2026-27 budget line by line. Cash where a plan should be, 63 paisa for education, 43 rupees of every 100 to interest. Here is why I do not accept it.
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Cash Is Not a Plan: They Hand Out Money Where a Future Should Be Why I believe BISP keeps the poor alive without ever letting them leave By Asad Baig • Written from outside Pakistan • June 2026 • Approx. 9-min read Of course giving cash to someone in need is a good thing, and I do not deny it. I wa...
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Why I Refuse the "Money Laundering" Excuse The case against the most common defence of Pakistan's FCY restrictions, in plain terms By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 9-min read What this cluster post is part of This is one of four cluster posts under my position on Pakistan's fore...
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The "Currency Will Crash" Argument: Why It Does Not Apply to Verified Earner Reform The most common objection to Pakistani FCY reform, and the structural reason it does not apply to the proposal on the table By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 9-min read What this cluster post is p...
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What Is the 825-to-1 Ratio in Pakistani FCY Policy? 200,000 organised winners against 165 million atomised potential reform beneficiaries By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 4-min read The short answer The 825-to-1 ratio describes the political math at the heart of Pakistan's foreign currenc...
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