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Italy Opens 10,500 Visas to help Pakistani Skilled workers migrate | PSX crosses 500K

This week in Pakistan’s economy: 📈 PSX crosses 500,000 investors for the first time — participation hits a historic milestone. Are we entering a new investing culture? 🏨 Roosevelt Hotel revamp talks move forward — Pakistan is trying to unlock value from one of its most strategic foreign assets in New York. Is this revival, restructuring, or monetisation? 🇮🇹 Italy opens 10,500 visas for Pakistani workers — a rare legal migration pathway into Europe. What does this mean for remittances, labor mobility, and skills export? Three stories. One bigger theme: Pakistan’s global positioning shifting — through labor, assets, and capital markets. Because economic change doesn’t always show up in GDP first. Sometimes it shows up in signals. Welcome to Pakistan & Counting’s Weekly News Interpreter. Follow Pakistan & Counting on: X: https://x.com/PakAndCounting FB: https://www.facebook.com/PakistanAndCounting IG: https://www.instagram.com/pakistanandcounting/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pakistanandcounting?_t=8rbVjlJIYOw&_r=1 LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pakistan-and-counting/

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