Akif Saeed

not endorsement.

[Akif Saeed @akifsaeed65]

@sachit221292 @snehamordani Agree. Not justifying reversing on an expressway, it appears shoulder on the left is as wide as the lane and could/should have been used. Very unfortunate.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

"Leave fossil fuels in the ground. It's so simple.This is the most important predicament humanity has ever faced and by design as a result of the enormous oppressive power of the fossil fuel industry, we're flunking it." George Monbiot.

No time to waste. #ActOnClimate

[Pehn Di Siri @PehnDiSiri]

Messi in world cup 2026

[Akif Saeed @akifsaeed65]

Agree?

[BOOM X @CryptoBoomNews]

Crypto bros in 2059 waiting for a bull run

[Nadeem Haque @nadeemhaque]

Pakistan often worships power, sifarish & connections over merit & ideas. No national Hall of Fame for scientists, inventors or thinkers.
Dr. Abdus Salam (Nobel Physics) sidelined at home due to faith. Naveed Zaidi developed the world’s first plastic magnet — barely known. Ommaya reservoir (brain drug delivery) by Ayub Ommaya transformed medicine globally.
We idolize rulers/generals while talent gets forgotten & diaspora stars send remittances instead of returning to glory. Merit loses to ‘who you know.’
#MeritMatters #Pakistan

[Akif Saeed @akifsaeed65]

I guess for both, guns and ACs.

[Alex 🧙‍♂️ @AlexLi98]

When I was in France last week sweating through the heatwave, my AC was still running back home in America, not for me, but to keep my gun collection cool, dry, and rust free.

The European mind cannot comprehend this.

[Akif Saeed @akifsaeed65]

Lahori nashta.

Kulcha instead.

[اكتشف تركيا 🇹🇷 @AboMusab1996]

الأتراك يأكلون هذا الساندويش كل صباح 🇹🇷
ساندويش العسل والقشطة يمنح الجسم طاقة عالية وبداية يوم مليئة بالنشاط. 🍯🥛

[Akif Saeed @akifsaeed65]

Thread

[Aadil Nakhoda @EconomistAadil]

🧵 1/6: The Fallacy of Fixed Exchange Rates

There is a perennial temptation in emerging economies to "fix" structural crises by manipulating the exchange rate. We often see policymakers attempt to anchor the local currency to achieve stability.

But here is the harsh economic reality: Forcing a currency valuation rarely goes as planned. When you try to manage the rate instead of managing the underlying reserves, you aren't fixing the problem, you are simply changing how the symptoms manifest. Let's break down the mechanics of why forced valuations fail, looking at both artificial overvaluation and aggressive devaluation. 📉👇

[Akif Saeed @akifsaeed65]

A good parallel could be placing the floor price back in 2008 at PSX. Easier to start difficult to stop, next to impossible to reverse. In the meantime, the market finds alternate just like water flowing downhill. Investor confidence is shattered on a very long-term basis.

[Aadil Nakhoda @EconomistAadil]

🧵 3/6: The Death Spiral of Administrative Rationing

Once a government starts rationing dollars to preserve an overvalued rate, it enters a dangerous regulatory quagmire:

The "Essential" Dilemma: Who decides what is essential? In 2022-23, industrial inputs were choked because classification became completely subjective. When the system gets tight enough, even standard consumer goods like soap are branded as luxury items. 🧼

Black Markets Boom: When you restrict formal supply, demand doesn't vanish, it migrates. Informal and gray channels (Hundi/Hawala) expand rapidly to clear the market at a premium.

Inflow Paralysis: Knowing the government’s peg is unsustainable and that its ability to hold the PKR is diminishing, overseas Pakistanis and exporters hold back. Formal foreign receipts dry up because everyone is waiting for the inevitable devaluation.

The Endgame: This administrative chokehold leads to severe demand destruction, starves local industry of raw materials, and throws the macroeconomy into a perpetual topspin. 🌪️

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary @zhao_dashuai]

The 4 great civilizations of the ancient world were all river based civilizations.

[Akif Saeed @akifsaeed65]

"In 2005, music industry insiders voted it the single greatest rock performance in history."

Why did it take 20 years?

😍😍😍😍😍😍

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Bob Geldof did not want them on the bill.
He had agreed to include Queen in the Live Aid lineup only reluctantly, pushed by promoter Harvey Goldsmith. By the summer of 1985, Geldof was not alone in thinking their moment had passed. Their biggest hits were nearly a decade old. Critics had started writing them off. Privately, the band itself was wondering if it was finished.
Then came July 13, 1985.
What nobody watching that day knew was what had happened the week before. Queen had booked the 400-seat Shaw Theatre near King's Cross in London and rehearsed their 21-minute set down to the exact second. Not the general shape of it. The exact second. Six songs, every beat drilled until nothing could go wrong.
And then, reportedly, their roadies disabled the sound limiters on the PA before the set. Every other band on that stage was capped. Queen was not.
At 6:41 PM, Freddie Mercury walked out. White jeans. White tank top. Studded armband. Seventy-two thousand people erupted.
He sat at the piano and played the opening of Bohemian Rhapsody, not the whole song, just enough to set the crowd on fire. Then he stood. Strode to the microphone.
Radio Ga Ga filled the stadium. Seventy-two thousand people raised their hands in perfect unison, one of the most iconic images of the entire decade.
Then Freddie stopped the band. He turned to the crowd. He opened his mouth and sang a single sustained note.
""Aaaaaaay-o.""
And waited.
Seventy-two thousand people sang it back. He went higher. They followed. Higher still. They stayed with him. Back and forth, the note climbing, the crowd holding on, the moment stretching into something that felt almost sacred.
It would later be called The Note Heard Round the World.
They tore through Hammer to Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, a shortened We Will Rock You, and finally We Are the Champions. The stadium shook.
Twenty-one minutes after they walked on, Queen walked off.
Bob Geldof, the man who had not wanted them there, said afterward: ""Queen were absolutely the best band of the day. They played the best, had the best sound, used their time to the full. It was the perfect stage for Freddie: the whole world.""
An estimated 1.9 billion people across 150 nations had been watching. In 2005, music industry insiders voted it the single greatest rock performance in history. Not one of the greatest. The greatest.
Authors and musicians who were there have said those 21 minutes may have saved the band itself, that Queen was on the verge of a permanent split, and that afternoon reminded all four of them what they were still capable of together.
Freddie Mercury died on November 24, 1991. He was 45 years old.
But on July 13, 1985, for 21 minutes, standing before 72,000 people under a London summer sky, he was the most alive person on earth.

[Akif Saeed @akifsaeed65]

@ZehraFarooq When is the next rebasing due? Thanks

[Pehn Di Siri @PehnDiSiri]

Suneel Munj giving his signed football to the boys who have spent 20k at Pakwheels service center

[cнєєкυ⋆｡🪐˚ ⋆ @Okay_Bye___]

How it feels to explain ur problem to customer support chat bot

[Akif Saeed @akifsaeed65]

"If you are terrified by what you have read, then I have done what I set out to do. "

Scary, for all across the globe.

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

"The London Ambulance Service responded to the highest number of life-threatening emergencies in its history on Wednesday"

No-one can say this is a surprise. Governments have been warned of this by me and others for years - even decades

Action NOW!!

https://t.co/6U1LnyV9eQ

[Ahmad Nawaz Sukhera @ansukhera]

A fascinating story of an architect from Russia, surviving Stalin era, & then choosing Pakistan to live in, designing some of our best known buildings!

Thank you for penning it, @AamerSarfraz!

Nasreddin Murat-Khan: The builder Of Pakistan https://t.co/g50TFyybe7

[Aamer Sarfraz @AamerSarfraz]

@ansukhera Just wrote to PM, requesting that the buildings designed/constructed by Murat-Khan carry plaques bearing his name. It is the very least a grateful nation can do to honour his memory and recognise the extraordinary contribution he made to the country he chose as his adopted home.

[Akhtar Hussain @AkhtarH15638653]

پنجابی میری ماں بولی
اسی پہلدے جا رئے آں

[Akif Saeed @akifsaeed65]

BOSS

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

One of the all time great stories.

[Akif Saeed @akifsaeed65]

Canal road Lahore.

[Parisian Aesthetics @Parisianaes1]

This is what Paris looks like in 2026