Migration "should be a choice and not a necessity," said the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Pakistan's Chief of Mission Mio Sato at a recent launch of the Pakistan Migration Report 2025. This expression succinctly encapsulates almost all facets of Pakistan's migration problem. The country has left its masses to fend for themselves, while they remain burdened under rising inflation, bleak job prospects and uncertain futures. Under such circumstances, migration becomes a compulsion,........

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