Hina Shabbir

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[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, but the choice now rests with the US, says Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi who spoke from the United Nations. The plan is based on the previously-agreed-upon Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) brokered in June.

[pezeshkian @drpezeshkian2]

من از ایرانی می‌آییم که رهبر ما را ترور کردند.

از ایرانی می‌آیم که مدرسه‌ای را بمباران کردند که بچه‌های میناب را با اسلحه‌های آمریکایی و صهیونیستی بمباران کردند.
#UNGA81

[Hina Shabbir @HinaaShabbir]

@antonioguterres @UN The outdated veto system of UNSC paralyzes global peace efforts and must be reformed immediately.

[Ahsan Iqbal @betterpakistan]

ہم نے تمام سیاسی جماعتوں اور پالیسی ماہرین کے ساتھ مل کر سول سروس ریفارمز پر ایک جامع مشاورتی اجلاس کی صدارت کی۔ وزیراعظم کی کمیٹی نے 46 اہم سفارشات مرتب کی ہیں، جن میں سے 43 پر مکمل اتفاقِ رائے قائم ہو چکا ہے۔ انگریز کے دور کا نوآبادیاتی انتظامی نظام جو صرف قانون کی پاسداری اور ٹیکس وصولی کے لیے بنا تھا، موجودہ دور کے جدید معاشی، تکنیکی اور سماجی تقاضوں کو پورا نہیں کر سکتا۔

ہماری مجوزہ اصلاحات پانچ بنیادی اصولوں پر مبنی ہیں۔ پہلا، روایتی جنرل کیڈر کے بجائے تعلیم، صحت، مالیات، آئی ٹی اور زراعت جیسے شعبوں میں متعلقہ تعلیمی پس منظر کے مطابق پیشہ ورانہ بھرتی۔ دوسرا، عہدوں اور ترقیوں کو محض سینیارٹی کے بجائے قابلیت سے مشروط کرنا۔ تیسرا، کارکردگی کو ناپنے کے لیے واضح کے پی آئی کا نظام اور جوابدہی۔ چوتھا، انگریزی زبان کی غیر ضروری رکاوٹ ختم کر کے تمام باصلاحیت نوجوانوں کو یکساں مواقع فراہم کرنا۔ اور پانچواں، آرٹیفیشل انٹیلی جنس اور ڈیٹا سسٹمز کا استعمال تاکہ عوام کو خدمات کی فراہمی تیز اور شفاف بنائی جا سکے۔

آسٹریلیا، ملائیشیا اور برطانیہ کے بہترین ماڈلز کو مدنظر رکھتے ہوئے، ہمارا مقصد ایک ایسا نظام بنانا ہے جو کسی ایک حکومت کا نہیں بلکہ پوری قوم کا اثاثہ ہو۔ ایک مضبوط اور باصلاحیت سول سروس ہی پاکستان کی ترقی کی ضمانت ہے۔

#Pakistan #CivilServiceReforms #AhsanIqbal #Governance #PlanningCommission #Merit #DigitalPakistan

[Steve Harvey @IAmSteveHarvey]

Remember this: Everyone that comes with you can't go with you. Stay on your path.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

The world faces three existential threats:

Runaway artificial intelligence.

The climate crisis.

And the intolerable deepening of inequalities.

Next week, world leaders are coming together at #UNGA.

My message to them:

International cooperation is more important than ever.

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

Respect to the people of Yemen who have refused to bow to Western Imperialism. Yemen doesn't need the support of EU Boss @vonderleyen , better known as FrauGenocide....
#TorinoRoma

[Dr. Taimur Rahman @Taimur_Laal]

70% of households drinking contaminated water.

25 million practice open defecation.

The sad reality of Pakistan in the 21st century.

[Maleeha Lodhi @LodhiMaleeha]

Iran got imp backing from SCO summit. Bishkek declaration said: "Member States express deep concern over developments .... They reaffirm the SCO's previously stated position, condemnation of military strikes on the territory of Iran, which led to numerous civilian casualties"

[Hina Shabbir @HinaaShabbir]

Pakistan assumes SCO chairmanship for 2026-27

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

"This is Capitalist hegemony : the ability of the ruling class to organise consent around a Social Order that serves its interests while appearing to express the interests of Society as a whole" - Vijay Prashad...
https://t.co/rr4b68jGws

[Murtaza Ali Shah @MurtazaViews]

Citizens staged a protest in #Karachi over the kidnapping and murder of businessman Mir Raza. A female protester questioned why police have yet to find his killers, while they were able to quickly recover #WasimAkram’s dog and news outlets are now reporting on Shahid Afridi’s lost dog

[Hina Shabbir @HinaaShabbir]

Every breath I take in free air is a debt. A debt paid in 1947 with blood, migration and tears.
#longlivepakistan

[Hamid Mir حامد میر @HamidMirPAK]

غضب ؟؟پٹرول اصل قیمت سے 139.93 اور ڈیزل 116.10 روپے فی لیٹر مہنگا فروخت ہورہا ہے۔ اتنے ٹیکس وصول کرنے کے باوجود پاکستان پر قرضوں کا بوجھ کیون بڑھ رہا ہے؟ کہاں ہے گڈ گورنینس اور وہ اکنامک مینجمنٹ جس کے بڑے بڑے دعوےکئے جاتے ہیں؟ عوام کو کب تک لوٹا جائے گا؟ https://t.co/rI9BIi1Hkh

[Hina Shabbir @HinaaShabbir]

Well written.

[farrukh saleem @SaleemFarrukh]

Pakistan does not need 33 new provinces.
It needs 169 powerful districts.
Schools are local.
Clinics are local.
Water is local.
Sanitation is local.
Why create 33 mini-Islamabads?
Take power — and money — to the citizen.
My column today in The News:
New provinces?

Clinical observation: the system has failed to deliver for the common Pakistani. Diagnosis: the system has collapsed. Prescription: new provinces? This is what new provinces would mean: 33 new governors, 33 new chief ministers, 33 new cabinets, 33 new assemblies, 33 new high courts, 33 new chief secretaries, 33 new secretariats, 33 new IGs, 33 new residences, hundreds of thousands of new cars (the government already has 85,000), new protocol and trillions of rupees of new expenditure.

Pakistan already spends roughly Rs3 trillion running one federal government and four provincial governments. Do we now want to create 33 new provincial governments and then spend trillions more on funding 33 new political and bureaucratic machines?

Would new provinces automatically deliver schools, hospitals, roads, sanitation and clean water? No. Structural change alone does not cure institutional failure. If accountability remains weak, funds continue to be misused, elites capture new structures and delivery remains poor, then new provinces will only create new capitals for old failures.

Red alert: Pakistan does not need more rulers; it needs better service delivery. Schools are local. Clinics are local. Water is local. Sanitation is local. Solid waste is local. Public transport is local. Street policing is local. Birth certificates, death certificates, building permissions and land-use decisions are local. Conclusion: the answer is local government, not new provinces.

Article 140A of the constitution already requires every province to establish local governments and devolve political, administrative and financial responsibility and authority to local representatives. Implement Article 140A in letter and spirit. Make every local government publish funds received, projects approved, names of contractors, timelines, physical progress and outcomes.

No new provinces, please. New provinces will simply produce new capitals, new cabinets and old failures. Bring a Local Government Reform Package instead that includes constitutional protection for local governments, fixed tenure, predictable fiscal transfers, administrative authority, public dashboards and direct accountability.

Yes, Punjab is too big. Sindh is too centralised. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is administratively complex. Balochistan is geographically vast. I accept the diagnosis. I disagree with the prescription. The cure is not new provinces. The cure is empowered local government.

Yes, the current model has failed. But new provinces are not a cure. Pakistan needs a cheaper, faster solution: local governments with constitutional protection, predictable money, real authority and public dashboards.

Pakistan’s problem is not that we have too few provinces. Pakistan’s problem is that power – and money – stops at provincial capitals.

Yes, new provinces will change maps. Local governments change lives. New provinces will add new offices. Local governments will put power closer to citizens. New provinces will redraw boundaries. Local governments will repair streets, schools and clinics. New provinces will produce new chief ministers. Local governments will produce cleaner water, better sanitation and faster response.

Do not replace four mini-Islamabads with 33 mini-Islamabads. Take power to the citizen. Not to another capital.
https://t.co/Z1XcOdDAE7

[Hina Shabbir @HinaaShabbir]

The atrocity of genocide is indefensible.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

The genocide of Jewish people called “holocaust”

The genocide of the Irish people called “famine”

The genocide of Native Americans called “discovery”

The genocide of Africans called “colonization”

The genocide of Palestinian called “self-defense”

The genocide of Lebanese called “security threat”

Language matters. A genocide is unjustifiable wherever happens. Never again

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

The Mainstream Media "has continued to play its part by calling this a 'Ceasefire' while largely repeating the Israeli narrative of these massacres". Israeli Terrorism will continue as long as countries continue to do Business with them, continue to play football with them...

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Apparently, it’s antisemitic, extreme, and outrageous to call Israel under Netanyahu ‘bloodthirsty’, as El-Sayed did today.

I just checked: so many people in DC, Dems and Republicans, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have called Putin ‘bloodthirsty’.

Brazen hypocrisy.

[Mushahid Hussain Sayed @Mushahid]

Keynote Address at Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI), think tank that I founded as Information Minister in 1999, on 7th Anniversary of Indian annexation of Occupied Kashmir! Also urged Course Correction to ‘heal the wounds in Azad Kashmir’ as long-standing Kashmir Cause of self-determination is being adversely affected!

[Hina Shabbir @HinaaShabbir]

@SindhCMHouse Why does the PPP insist on creating south punjab a separate province?