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What Is Circular Debt in Pakistan's Power Sector? The Rs. 2,640 billion problem nobody can fully explain in one sentence, explained in five minutes By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 5-min read Circular debt in one paragraph Circular debt is the amount of money owed by Pakistan's power se...
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The Roshan Digital Account Explained: Why It Worked When Other Reforms Failed How a single 2020 product accumulated $12.426 billion across 917,400 accounts and survived the 2023 near-default crisis By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 10-min read What this cluster post is part of This is one...
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The Pakistan FCY Restriction Era (1947 to 1985) How the legal architecture for class-based foreign currency access was built across four decades 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 the foreign currency acco...
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May 28, 1998: The Day Pakistan Froze All Foreign Currency Accounts The most consequential date in Pakistan's banking history, what happened, and why the wound remains open By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 10-min read What this cluster post is part of This is one of four cluster posts unde...
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The 1992 Protection of Economic Reforms Act: PERA Explained What it did, what it cost Pakistan, and why every later reform has been shaped by its 1998 collapse By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 11-min read What this cluster post is part of This is one of four cluster posts under the foreig...
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The Foreign Currency Account in Pakistan: A 76-Year History (1947 to 2026) How the country built, broke, and rebuilt the rules that govern who gets to hold dollars By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 22-min read Why this history matters When I started looking at Pakistan's foreign currency f...
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They Lied. And This Time, Their Own People Are Saying It. ISN Global News | March 3, 2026 I want you to stop for a second and think about what's actually happening here. The United States is currently bombing Iran.
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Pakistani workers earn 15 to 35 percent less than Indians for the same job in the Gulf. The reason is not skill. It is the state's failure to negotiate.
Asad Baig
A 30-year, 5-phase plan to reverse Pakistan's brain drain. Three industries, third-party legal guarantees, and a dedicated agency insulated from electoral change.
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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.
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Three countries that took back their diaspora and built world-class economies. The strategies, the timelines, the results, and what Pakistan can copy.
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Same job, same shift, same site — different passport, different wage. The 15-35 percent gap between Pakistani and Indian Gulf salaries, explained.
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