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What Did Asad Baig Say About the 2026-27 Budget? A summary of the writer's opinion on Pakistan's federal budget By the ISN Media desk • June 2026 • Approx. 4-min read This is a short summary of the writer Asad Baig's opinion on Pakistan's 2026-27 budget. It reports his arguments; the full opinion p...
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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...
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The 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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Weaponizing Education: How Distorted Histories Poison Young Minds Post-independence, the South Asian education systems through its textbooks have been weaponized as a tool to indoctrinate and poison young minds from a tender age.
Ahmed Rai
An analytical case against universal nuclear proliferation, drawing on deterrence theory, the May 2025 India to Pakistan crisis, and Finland's 2026 NATO turn, and what a credible alternative security architecture would require.
Muskan Zahra
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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