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POLICY: THE ISLAMIC DEBATE OVER CRYPTO

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SignalsMonitor is following this as a politics story. Dawn is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 7 Oct 2026, 06:08 UTC. The headline in use is “POLICY: THE ISLAMIC DEBATE OVER CRYPTO”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Pakistan made global headlines this June when Islamic scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani, along with five others, issued a fatwa [religious edict] arguing that it was “impermissible” to use cryptocurrencies to purchase goods. The argument was that crypto is “merely the recording of fictitious numbers in a digital account”, it is…
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