Pakistan in 2025 |
The year 2025 will be remembered in Pakistan not as a chapter in a linear story, but as the definitive portrait of a nation at war with its own realities. It was a year of profound schism: existential threats receded while foundational crises silently metastasized; geopolitical stature soared as domestic willpower withered. Pakistan mastered the art of the precarious balance, securing its position in the world by leaving the future of its own people in the lurch.
Economically, 2025 was the year of managed stagnation. The ghost of sovereign default was exorcised, not by the hard medicine of reform, but by the familiar saline drip of financial life support - friends’ debt rollovers, an IMF programme, and the relentless loyalty of a diaspora remittance army. This was stability on life support. With anemic growth below 2 percent, the economy bled jobs faster than it created them. The defining narrative was a tale of two countries: a stock market painting digital fortunes for the elite, while the brutal arithmetic of crushed red chilies, wheat, and electricity tariffs strangled the poor. The State’s priorities were laid bare: health and education budgets remained skeletal, yet the cabinet found the fiscal space for a self-awarded salary raise.
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The privatisation of PIA became a perfect metaphor - a transaction that answered no fundamental question, solved no structural flaw, but simply moved a set of liabilities from one ledger to another, leaving only the smoke of a concluded deal.
Politically, the nation kept sleepwalking through a tense and petrified equilibrium. The ragged echoes of 2024’s disputed elections were buried under a new constitutional architecture, designed to enshrine executive power and solemnise a renewed civil-military........