This marks the first time a major financial institution has explicitly promoted the integration of national ID (NADRA) with a real-time payment system (RAAST) in a Muslim-majority nation of 220+ million people. The combination of biometric ID, emergency aid distribution, and mandatory digital payments creates an unprecedented system for population management at this scale.
Pakistan's Digital ID System: World Bank Pushes Universal Tracking
📰 What Happened
The World Bank's Pakistan Development Update 2025 highlights Pakistan's digital transformation through NADRA's national ID system and RAAST payment infrastructure. The report praises Pakistan's COVID-19 Emergency Cash Program while identifying gaps in digital access, particularly affecting women and rural areas. The Bank emphasizes expanding digital infrastructure and ID systems as crucial for governance and financial inclusion, though challenges remain in broadband availability and interoperability.
📖 Prophetic Significance
The World Bank's promotion of Pakistan's digital ID system reveals a concerning pattern of religious deception. By packaging population control mechanisms as 'financial inclusion' and 'equitable opportunity', it mirrors the warnings in 2 Thessalonians about a great delusion. The NADRA-RAAST integration demonstrates how digital infrastructure can become a tool for enforcing compliance through access to basic services. The targeting of rural and low-income populations through 'inclusive ID' parallels prophecies about all peoples being brought under a unified economic system. The use of COVID-19 aid to accelerate adoption shows how crises are leveraged to implement control mechanisms.