Policy Must Support Pakistan’s Freelancers

[kevin1]

While the surge in freelancing is promising, experts warn that supportive policy is essential. Freelancers rely on reliable internet, seamless cross-border payments, dispute resolution, skill certification, and clear tax guidance.

Freelancing should be treated as one pillar of a diversified services economy, alongside IT exports, BPO, and digital manufacturing. Pakistan’s youth are proving their capability on the global stage, but long-term resilience requires infrastructure, human capital investment, and broader economic diversification, not just reliance on the gig economy.

[madmax]

freelancing can’t carry the whole economy tho, diversification is key long term