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Riaz Haq commented on Riaz Haq's blog post Pakistan Household Survey HIES 2024-25 Raises More Questions Than It Answers
"Zehra Farooq@ZehraFarooqBudget 2026-27 allocates PBS Rs 5.41 billion to measure and report the statistics of a Rs 126.9 trillion economy. That is less than 0.004% of the GDP it is responsible for measuring. India's NSO operates at roughly ten…"
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Riaz Haq commented on Riaz Haq's blog post Does Pakistan's Real GDP Exceed One Trillion US Dollars?
"Zehra Farooq@ZehraFarooqBudget 2026-27 allocates PBS Rs 5.41 billion to measure and report the statistics of a Rs 126.9 trillion economy. That is less than 0.004% of the GDP it is responsible for measuring. India's NSO operates at roughly ten…"
5 hours ago
Riaz Haq commented on Riaz Haq's blog post Pakistan Household Survey HIES 2024-25 Raises More Questions Than It Answers
"Zehra Farooq@ZehraFarooqHad Pakistan never rebased in 2022, GDP in FY26 would read roughly Rs 108 trillion on the old methodology. The official figure is Rs 126.9 trillion. That Rs 18.5 trillion gap is not real economic output, it is methodological…"
5 hours ago
Riaz Haq commented on Riaz Haq's blog post Does Pakistan's Real GDP Exceed One Trillion US Dollars?
"Zehra Farooq@ZehraFarooqHad Pakistan never rebased in 2022, GDP in FY26 would read roughly Rs 108 trillion on the old methodology. The official figure is Rs 126.9 trillion. That Rs 18.5 trillion gap is not real economic output, it is methodological…"
5 hours ago
Riaz Haq commented on Riaz Haq's blog post Pakistan Household Survey HIES 2024-25 Raises More Questions Than It Answers
"Zehra Farooq@ZehraFarooqOn January 20, 2022, Pakistan's GDP grew by Rs 8.1 trillion overnight. Not a single factory opened. Not a single additional tax was collected. Public debt, frozen at Rs 39.9 trillion, did not change by a single rupee.…"
5 hours ago
Riaz Haq commented on Riaz Haq's blog post Does Pakistan's Real GDP Exceed One Trillion US Dollars?
"Zehra Farooq@ZehraFarooqOn January 20, 2022, Pakistan's GDP grew by Rs 8.1 trillion overnight. Not a single factory opened. Not a single additional tax was collected. Public debt, frozen at Rs 39.9 trillion, did not change by a single rupee.…"
5 hours ago
Riaz Haq commented on Riaz Haq's blog post Pakistani-American Professor Publishes Landmark Genomic Research on Pakistanis
"A landmark study of 173,303 genomes in the Pakistan Genome Resource revealed that . Researchers identified complete loss-of-function (LoF) variants in 6,476 genes—about one-third of all human protein-coding genes. [1, 2] Why Does This…"
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Riaz Haq commented on Riaz Haq's blog post Pakistan Household Survey HIES 2024-25 Raises More Questions Than It Answers
"Obesity rates in Pakistan have tripled in the last 20 yearshttps://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/obesity-rates-in-pakistan-have-tripled-in-the-last-20-yearsIn the chart, you can see this rise for Pakistan. In the last 20 years, the share of…"
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    Pakistani-American Professor Publishes Landmark Genomic Research on Pakistanis

    Dr. Danish Saleheen, a Pakistani-American professor at Columbia University, and his fellow researchers have published a comprehensive analysis of 173,303 genomes from Pakistan, one of the largest genomic studies ever conducted in South Asia. This landmark work is upending how scientists understand human genetics and drug development. "South Asians have been severely underrepresented in genome studies—comprising just 2% of global genomic databases despite representing…

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    Posted by Riaz Haq on June 26, 2026 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

    Does Pakistan's Real GDP Exceed One Trillion US Dollars?

    A 2024 joint study of the International Labor Organization and the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority  (SMEDA) estimated Pakistan's undocumented economy at $457 billion. While other South Asian nations, particularly Bangladesh and India, do include estimated undocumented GDP figures in their official GDP, Pakistan's official GDP figures do not include such estimates. If the Pakistani government decides to include estimates of the informal economy in its official…

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    Posted by Riaz Haq on June 19, 2026 at 7:30am — 8 Comments

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