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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 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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How Can Pakistani Productive Class Organise for FCY Reform? Eight specific actions you can take this week to start changing the political math By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 4-min read The short answer The Pakistani productive class can change the political math for FCY reform by taking...
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What Is PERA Section 5? The provision that prohibits source-inquiry on foreign currency deposits and protects elite wealth flight By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 4-min read The short answer PERA Section 5 is the provision of Pakistan's Protection of Economic Reforms Act 1992 that grants...
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What Is the AML-PERA Contradiction in Pakistani Law? Two laws operating simultaneously with opposite requirements, defeating anti-money-laundering enforcement for 33 years By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 4-min read The short answer Pakistan maintains the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2010 al...
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What Is the Importer-Exporter Asymmetry in Pakistani Banking? The most economically irrational feature of Pakistani banking, explained directly By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 4-min read The short answer A Pakistani importer can move dollars out of Pakistan with smooth Letter of Credit p...
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Why the Productive Class Must Organise: My Call to Action A practical agenda for IT founders, freelancers, exporters, and the diaspora 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 foreign cu...
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The AML-PERA Contradiction: Why I Call It Hypocrisy Pakistan's two laws say opposite things, and the elite has spent thirty-three years using the gap By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 10-min read What this cluster post is part of This is one of four cluster posts under my position on Pakis...
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