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Tajikistan, Lebanon, Haiti, Pakistan. Every country addicted to remittances has stayed poor. The structural reasons no labour-export economy has ever developed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pakistan received $38.5 billion in remittances in FY 2024-25. Including hawala, the actual flow may be $50-60 billion. The numbers, sources, and what they mean.
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Hybrid Solar Systems in Pakistan: The New Math After the 2026 Rules Why a battery now pays for itself in 18 to 36 months for most Pakistani households, when it did not under the old net metering rules By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 7-min read What a hybrid solar system is A pure grid-...
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What Does Fuel Price Adjustment Mean on My Electricity Bill? The line item that varies most month to month, what it actually compensates for, and what to watch for By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 4-min read The short answer Fuel price adjustment (FPA) is a monthly correction to your el...
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The 2026 NEPRA Prosumer Regulations Explained, Line by Line What changed for Pakistani solar households in February 2026, what each rule actually means, and why the government chose this path By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 7-min read What this is, in one paragraph In February 2026, NE...
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Net Metering vs Net Billing in Pakistan: What Changed in 2026 The single rule that flipped Pakistani solar economics, in 800 words. Plus what to do if you have an existing system, and what to size for if you are installing now. By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 6-min read The two rules i...
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The Solar Crackdown: Why the Government Punished Six Million Households What the 2026 Prosumer Regulations actually tell us about who the Pakistani state is willing to protect, and who it is willing to sacrifice By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 7-min read What this article is I have wri...
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The Working Capital Scam: NEPRA's Quietest Subsidy to IPPs How a single accounting mismatch between monthly payments and quarterly tariff calculations costs Pakistani consumers billions every year By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 6-min read The smallest scandal that costs the most Of al...
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NEPRA: The Regulator That Did Not Regulate How Pakistan's electricity regulator spent twenty-five years approving the tariff structures that produced the crisis it was created to prevent By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 9-min read The institution at the centre of the failure Most discus...
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