Muhammad Abdur Rafay

NUST | Econ student | 🦇

[Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor]

🚨🚨Thank you @CMShehbaz 🚨🚨
Following the revision, petrol will retail at Rs393.75 per litre while HSD will cost Rs422.08 per litre. The government continues to levy Rs114 per litre in taxes and duties on petrol and Rs100 per litre on diesel.
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[Stock Investor @HumayunInvests]

Crude oil prices fell 13 dollars in single day but petrol price in Pak increased by Rs 4.61.

Koi bata sakta ha k Gov konsi moving average use kar rahi h? Kiske haath main calculator de diya hai bhai? 🤦‍♂️

[ProPakistani @ProPakistaniPK]

Petrol prices were cut again, but drivers will get only limited relief this time. The government raised the petrol levy by nearly Rs. 25 per litre alongside a Rs. 4 per litre price cut. 🧵

[Shayan Baig @BaigShayan1234]

Please do not blame IMF for the increase in Levies on Petrol and Diesel.

What IMF needs is the increase in Revenue only and that can be done by implementing taxes on retailers and traders which sadly govt has failed to implement.

You go Saddar Karachi and just look at the financial transactions being carried out on daily basis, all go untaxed, tax them and get the revenue thing done instead of raising levies and easy money.

You go mega restaurants that bluntly operate on cash to avoid taxes, just raid them, penalise them and get the hell of generation instead of putting strain on common people in the form of levies on petroleum.

You go livestock market, document that sector and please get this revenue thing done immediately instead of raising levies.

You go after agriculture sector, sieze their land and get the revenue thing done by collecting taxes instead of putting a middle man living a stressful life only to meet both ends by increase levies on Petrol and Diesel.

You please go after smugglers,just get the hell out of them and let our document products get sold and collect taxes from them instead of putting levies on Petrol and Diesel and then blaming IMF for the mess that is sheer incompetence of our own institutions.

You go after property markets, re value them as per actual values and get the hell of capital taxes from them and get this revenue thing done instead of blaming IMF and imposing levies on innocent middle class Pakistanis.

you go after cartels, use forces, ask them about windfall profits and get the revenue thing done by taxing those profits instead of doubling down on beautiful middle class families who are suffering from stress, pain, inflation, taxes, poor infrastructure, snatching, hospitalization bills.

[Miftah Ismail @MiftahIsmail]

Petrol and diesel prices have been increased by the Noon government by Rs 15 per litre each to Rs 415 per litre. The entire increase in both has been due to increase in levy and taxes. Not due to any increase in prices.

For petrol now we pay levy of Rs 120 per litre and for diesel Rs 45 per litre. In addition we pay about Rs 30 per litre as custom for diesel and Rs 20 as duty for petrol. So about 33% of the what you pay for petrol and 16% for diesel goes to the government.

Don’t let the government say that they are not passing on the total burden on the people and undertaking any austerity. The entire burden of price increases plus even more taxes are now being charged to the people.

[Shahbaz Rana @81ShahbazRana]

There was a reduction of 21 paisa in petrol price in international market. But the government further increased the tax by Rs17.91 per litre to increase price to Rs415.
What sort of economic management is this?
Now Government is charging Rs117.5 per litre levy on petrol. This is even higher than Rs80 per litre agreement with the IMF.
Economy has been rendered into an accounting exercise. The cost of failure of FBR and the failure to seek any relaxation from IMF in pre-war targets is paid by common people.

[Atif Mian @AtifRMian]

Petrol at Rs 30/litre in Pakistan sounds crazy. It is not. What is crazy is the policy failure that prevents it.

Petrol is around Rs 300/litre today, excluding government levy, here's how it can effectively be Rs 30/litre.

People do not consume petrol for its own sake; they use it to travel. The average Pakistani rides a motorbike. A fuel-efficient motorbike can travel about 60 km on one litre. An efficient electric scooter can travel about 30 km per kWh, so it needs only 2 kWh to cover the same 60 km.

What should 2 kWh cost in Pakistan? Pakistan is one of the best places in the world for solar, with an all-in LCOE cost of around 5 cents per kWh. The electricity cost is 10 cents, or Rs 30/litre of distance travelled! The Rs 30/litre calculation remains the same for cars.

The 300-versus-30 gap is the cost of bad policy. It reflects billions of dollars of saving that could instead finance EV infrastructure: charging, distribution, battery swapping, and smart pricing software etc. - boosting much-needed domestic investment.

Since solar is highly modular. You do not need massive scale to get reasonable efficiency. That creates business and employment opportunities for small domestic power producers. Instead, Pakistan leaned into large fossil-fuel plants financed by dollar-denominated borrowing and guaranteed returns.

Local firms face credit constraints, but solar creates a natural collateralizable cash flow through electricity sales to the grid. With the right regulatory framework, this could have unlocked large private domestic investment, and employment.

Battery swapping is another area where small local businesses could have emerged and scaled.

Electricity enables smart pricing. When solar supply is abundant, prices can fall, and poor households and firms can shift usage to cheaper hours - automatic demand stabilization

Better air quality would mean longer, healthier lives and higher productivity. That is a growth multiplier

Green technology industries could be developed domestically with the right industrial policy, easing balance-of-payments pressure while raising employment and investment.

Instead, Pakistan chose imported-fuel power plants, protected a backward-looking domestic auto sector, and raised electricity prices by burdening them with the fixed costs of those plants and heavy taxation, slowing EV adoption. Then came the net-metering fiasco, all to keep zombie power plants alive.

Pakistan’s energy policy may be the clearest example of a broken nervous system. I hope someone fixes it, because people are paying the price, 300-versus-30

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire, on the coordinated route as already announced by Ports and Maritime Organisation of the Islamic Rep. of Iran.

[Syed Muzammil Shah @SyedMuzammilOFL]

Breaking: High level intelligence sources reveal that the Americans accepted all demands but talks collapsed after Abbas Araghchi demanded going to Fiza Ali’s show just to lift JD Vance on his shoulders.

[Miftah Ismail @MiftahIsmail]

Imagine if Pakistani consumers hadn’t put solar on their own, in spite of government’s attempts to disincentive it.

What a power supplier government is:
1) It cannot guarantee continuous power.
2) It charges high monopoly rates.
3) It doesn’t allow any competition.
4) It doesn’t like if you make cheaper electricity from solar on your own.

No business run like this can or should survive.

[Syed Muzammil Shah @SyedMuzammilOFL]

Talks failed but history will remember the lengths Pakistan went to, to get it settled peacefully. We have punched miles above our weight & gave the world a glimmer of hope against all odds. We were the only avenue that gave hope to millions & millions of mothers & children who dreaded destruction. Proud of our diplomats. We know it’s a good news for a specific faction of anarchists in Pakistan but then again, until they get hold of affairs, let’s cherish what we did in the last two weeks for peace. Congratulations, Pakistan. And good luck to the world !!

[Syed Muzammil Shah @SyedMuzammilOFL]

I hope they don’t put this tweet in the script of Dhurandhar-3. Thank you for your attention to this matter: DJT

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

The Iran–U.S. Ceasefire terms are clear and explicit: the U.S. must choose—ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both.

The world sees the massacres in Lebanon. The ball is in the U.S. court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments.

[iFii @iffiViews]

Peace is the victory no one regrets.

[Pehalwaaan @Pehalwaaan]

Pakistan at the rest of the world:

[Bakker Janjua @Bakkerjanjua]

نو فائٹنگ 🥊

[Shehbaz Sharif @CMShehbaz]

Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future. To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks. Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture. We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region.

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@araghchi

[Syed Muzammil Shah @SyedMuzammilOFL]

What a country !! Took a loan from the IMF, then stopped a potential World War, also attacked Afghanistan, talked ceasefire with China, then became a Global Peacemaker, also stood with Iran, then condemned attack on KSA, then negotiated with Trump while the nation watched PSL.

[Syed Muzammil Shah @SyedMuzammilOFL]

Since winning a Cricket World Cup was becoming more & more difficult so Pakistanis rather aimed for the Nobel. Absolute diplomatic conquest. Whether it fails or succeeds in two weeks or before that, we have done our part. Pakistan will be remembered as a State that held onto pragmatism & sense amidst nerve crushing chaos. The World counted on us for a hiatus & we delivered it. At least I’ve never seen such prominence of Pakistan on the foreign front in my entire life. Proud !!

[Shehbaz Sharif @CMShehbaz]

With the greatest humility, I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
I warmly welcome the sagacious gesture and extend deepest gratitude to the leadership of both the countries and invite their delegations to Islamabad on Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes.
Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability. We earnestly hope, that the ‘Islamabad Talks’ succeed in achieving sustainable peace and wish to share more good news in coming days!

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@SecRubio
@SteveWitkoff
@SEPeaceMissions
@drpezeshkian
@mb_ghalibaf
@araghchi