Government officials continue to regularly put out statements celebrating overseas Pakistanis and remittances while completely missing the point of how a remittance-based economy is not a good thing. In fact, for a country the size of Pakistan, it is actually a disaster in the making.

Officials can tout record remittances — $38.5 billion in FY25 — as an economic triumph, but it does not make the claim true. The narrative actually obscures the devastating reality that the country is haemorrhaging its future.

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