Bitcoin blockchain is decentralized and most secure so that Bitcoin transactions are irreversible.

Bitcoin adoption has been increasing and has been better than ever. Fortunately and importantly, this adoption growth of Bitcoin is irreversible too. It causes unavoidable trend globally that nations have to join the trend if they don't want their countries are falling behind what they can not ban. They can make Bitcoin illegal in their countries but citizens there will continue to use bitcoin. So at the end, these governments are losers by wasting opportunities to gain more money in tax from their citizens.

So it's time for change, to legalize Bitcoin in their countries.

It's time to spread the Orange color (a traditional iconic color for Bitcoin) on the global map.
https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/legality-map

The author of the article deliberately ignored the difference between digital currencies^[1] and cryptocurrencies. The text source says:


Digital_currency is not a crypto, which are a form of current money, but they are digital, completely centralized, and do not have to be on the blockchain.  So if the above quote is the only update, then nothing has changed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_currency

CBDC is on the minds of many countries nowadays, as far as I've heard about it.
If that's true, then, yeah, BTC would still be out of the picture to take a positive change in a stance in Pakistan and other countries too.

Reading the article on the link that OP provided, it didn't specifically state that the Pakistani government is legalizing cryptocurrency, so I agree with you that it must be the writers wish. Some people will publish articles with misleading information, and someone who is not vast in the topic will easily believe what is said.

I believe that in the near future, countries like Pakistan and China, that are still being skeptical about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general will have a change of mind. Bitcoin has become a store of value and it's adoption is increasing despite the unfriendly stance by some governments, I believe that in near future, they won't have much choice but to fully recognize it. The impact of Bitcoin is being felt in the US presidential campaigns, this is to show that eventually governments will adopt what the people want.

I think big countries like China or India would love to get their currencies on CDBC rails to have a much wider set of tools to control and regulate them.
Especially China! It's a "treasure" for them and for their people to use it because it can be regulated to the brim and used as a lever in some situations, in my opinion.

The article content says a different thing compared to what the title carries, and it's a bit misleading. The only improvement I see in here is that they are open to embracing digitisation on their country's currency, creating something they can control both digitally and physically.
 
That's, by the way, in the aspect of government changing from their first decision in regard to technology to more favourable terms is based on who they have in power within the agency and those in power during the time of the current administration.

If there are people who are lovers of innovation, then there should always be a change in some policy regarding that angel; if not a major change, at least a proposal to revisit those old bills can be done.

My stance on this is that if I were a government official in charge of passing laws, the last thing I would want to do is jump into conclusion about something that is new just because I don't understand. This is why research can never be overemphazied. There are many smart people in the country that can be called upon to study a new technology and give an unbaised report of it based on concrete evidence and not assumptions. It is only through research based on evidence that we advance and make remarkable progress as a society. In many years or months to come there would be countries who would reverse their stance on bitcoin. I hope my country is next.

The quotes suggest to me they are planning to roll out a CBDC, not push for Bitcoin & crypto use. I could be wrong but that’s what it looks like. It doesn’t matter any way because as Bitcoin becomes more & more widespread use, they will all have to backtrack.

Let us not take it for a surprise, change is always constant. We can all attesting that majority of Bitcoin adoptors today where mostly in doubt about it.

I have actually come to think that who hears about Bitcoin and does not have a second thought about it before investing their funds are mostly those who can possibly be scammed.
Bitcoin is a newly financial technology that has just existed after decades the fiats has existed.

The government has actually tried to make us individually have this negative influence on digital and a decentralized currency like Bitcoin in considerations... They are about the peoples funds but though they (government) are highily greediness feeding fats on the public funds. So alternatively, they fears about the adoption of the system since it is decentralized so they can not get aware with those their authoritative and selfish interests with it.

Now the Pakistan government has woken up earlier which I would not say late because in yead ahead, there would be more countries to adopt legal tendering of Bitcoin without undermining its decentralization anymore.

I am sure that the Pakistan government has since been on research of how they can utilize the use of Bitcoin is if adopted. Then they must have been made understand of how it could verily contribute to their economy and citizens adopting it may somewhere rely a so source of income there.
They did well with the approach i must say.

Why would China push for BTC, when it can pour money into something of its own?
I do think that only smaller countries would try to play around with BTC itself, others would be much more skeptical about it.