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. A nation cannot build its future on money wired from abroad while the talent needed to deploy it productively walks out the door. If there were a way to retain that talent, even at lower, local wages, they would generate significantly more than $27 billion in economic activity. Rather than cheering the departure of our best and brightest, there is a need to create a country where they want to stay.