Less than 5 percent of Pakistan's remittance dollars go to productive investment. The full breakdown of where every $100 sent home actually ends up.
Asad Baig
A 5-marla in Bahria Town Lahore now costs 25 years of median Pakistani salary. How diaspora dollars and DHA created a worse housing crisis than the United States.
Asad Baig
The IMF estimates Pakistan's hawala flow at $15-20 billion a year. How the informal money transfer system works and why it inflates real estate.
Asad Baig
India has BLAs with wage floors in every Gulf state. Pakistan signs weaker agreements without effective wage protection. The mechanism, the gap, and the fix.
Asad Baig
Three countries that took back their diaspora and built world-class economies. The strategies, the timelines, the results, and what Pakistan can copy.
Asad Baig
Same job, same shift, same site — different passport, different wage. The 15-35 percent gap between Pakistani and Indian Gulf salaries, explained.
Asad Baig
A peer-reviewed study found Pakistan's Qatar embassy more unwilling to help than Bangladesh's and Nepal's. The budget, the policy, and the cost.
Asad Baig
India deploys a state. Pakistan deploys press releases. The full comparison: budgets, programs, evacuations, and the 22-year gap in diaspora architecture.
Asad Baig
A dedicated 20-year agency for Pakistan's industrial development and diaspora engagement, modelled on Singapore's EDB and South Korea's EPB. The proposal in detail.
Asad Baig
25,000 Pakistani bodies repatriated yearly from the Gulf. Children growing up over WhatsApp. The human cost the state will not put next to the remittance receipt.
Asad Baig
Like Dubai International Financial Centre. English common law inside the zone. International arbitration the default. Why Pakistan needs one to win back the diaspora.
Asad Baig
40-50K Pakistani doctors. 150-200K engineers. 80-120K IT professionals. The full breakdown of the 400-500K skilled diaspora Pakistan has scattered abroad.
Asad Baig