Overview

• Pakistan, home to more than 40 million crypto wallets, announced its first Strategic Bitcoin Reserve at the Bitcoin2025 conference in Las Vegas, pledging that the assets will never be sold.
• The government has allocated 2,000 megawatts of surplus electricity for bitcoin mining operations and AI data centers to generate revenue, create jobs and attract foreign investment.
• Islamabad partnered with World Liberty Financial, a US-based firm linked to the Trump family, to accelerate blockchain innovation and tokenization of national assets.
• Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Bilal Bin Saqib was charged with crafting a FATF-compliant regulatory framework and overseeing Pakistan’s digital asset strategy.
• Observers caution that Pakistan’s financial opacity and ongoing FATF greylisting risk exposing its crypto expansion to money laundering and other illicit cross-border flows.