Sohaib Nehal

Head of Engineering @Streetlogix_
Passionate about traveling, meeting people, & discussing unique ideas.

Note: RTs are not endorsements.

[Khawaja M. Asif @KhawajaMAsif]

بجٹ آرپا ھے ۔ ٹیکسوں کا موسم ھے ۔ میرے پاس سگریٹ کے جائز کاروبار والے حضرات آر ہے ھیں۔ ان کا کہنا ھے کے ٹیکس کی شرح کم کریں تو اس سیکٹر میں ناجائز سیگریٹ کا کا روبار کم ھو گا اور ملکی خزانے کی آمدن زیادہ ھو گی۔ میں اس تاویل سے عمومی طور پہ اتفاق کرتا ھوں۔ماضی قریب میں ناجائز اور چوری کی سگریٹ فیکٹریوں پہ سختی کی گئی تو یہ ایک صوبے سے نکل کر باقی صوبوں پھیل گئی ھیں۔ پرانے زمانے میں لاھور کے ایک کونے میں ایک کاروبار ھوتا تھا۔ حکومتوں نے وہ کاروبار بند کروایا تو وہ سارے لاھور میں پھیلُ گیا۔ اب سنا ھے کے ناجائز سگریٹ بنانے والوں نے پولٹری فارموں کے اندر مشینیں لگا لی ھیں ۔

ایک اندازے کے مطابق سگریٹ کے informal یا ناجائز کاروبار پہ حکومت کو ٹیکس کی مد میں 300ارب روپے کا نقصان ھے ۔
ایک راۓ ھے کہ ٹیکس گھٹانے سے چوری کی ترغیب کم ھو جاۓ گی اور زیادہ لوگ ٹیکس ادا کرنے پہ راضی ھو جائیں گے۔ صرف ایک نقصان ھو گا ٹیکس collect کرنے والے بے ایمان حکومتی اھل کار حرام کی کمائی سے محروم ھو جائیں گے۔آپ ھماری مارکیٹوں کا سارے ملک میں حجم دیکھیں اور وہ ٹیکس کتنا دیتے ھیں وہ چیک کر لیں ۔ یہ بھی کہا جاتا ھے ٹیکس ٹھیک جمع ھو تو ھم بین الاقوامی مالی اداروں کی غلامی سے آزاد ھو۔

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

@WasayJalil Although I am not a supporter of MQM or AH, being the first-hand observer of their violence, terror, and corruption, I do agree it should be up to people to decide who to ban or remove from positions of power. The state should only ensure law & order, & free & fair elections.

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

RT @ArifAlvi: On the Cipher, The Coverup, and the Consequences:

Drop Site News published a document, claiming that it is the original Ciph…

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Leaked docs show US told Pakistan 'things will get difficult' if Imran Khan not ousted from office
https://t.co/62tGmrhOIT

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

@DanMir_musings So, you think that Imran will be convicted and hanged for high treason without trial? And, if trial happens, there will be no argument from the other side? And, even if IK leaked it, he would be trialed and those who actually implemented these orders won't? How low is your IQ?

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨BREAKING: For the first time, the original Pakistani cypher — cable I-0678, the document that triggered the removal of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan — is being released in full by Drop Site.

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

:D :D :D

[Shahid Hussain @ShahidHussainJM]

*اوگرا نے پیٹرولیم مصنوعات کی قیمتوں میں اضافے کی سمری وزیراعظم شہباز شریف کو بجھوا دی
*پٹرول کی قیمت میں 71.40روپے اور ڈیزل کی قیمت میں 56.46 پیسے بڑھانے کی تجاویز

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

The perpetrators have been in govt since as well. Whether it was PTI, PDM, or now PMLN. @wajih_sani

[Wajih Sani @wajih_sani]

سانحۂ 12 مئی:

کراچی میں خون کی ہولی۔۔ جس میں ۵۰ بےگناہ مارے گئے۔

آج تک اس کے ذمہ داروں کو سزا نہیں ہوئی۔

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

@murtazawahab1 encroachment, garbage dumping stations where illegal settlers put fire as well regularly. All the hawkers take up the footpath and road space. If you really want to make this a model project, please sit with people like us instead of PPP's reps. Happy to show you around the area

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

@murtazawahab1 I really wish, hope, and pray that whatever you are saying becomes true and you are successful in this project. Ameen. I am a resident of the Sindh Baloch Society, which is on this road. I can tell you that apart from infrastructure, the major problems on this road are 1/2

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

@zarazhangrui Built a presentation for one of the large features I was building in our Citylogix web application. Deployed to Github Pages. Looks beautiful! Thanks.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Usage limits are up, effective today we're:

1) Doubling Claude Code's 5-hour limits for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans

2) Removing peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max plans

3) Substantially raising our API rate limits for Opus models

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

Looks like immense pressure from Rawalpindi on @MediaCellPPP . But the problem is absolute incompetence and lack of skills, knowledge, and experience in town and city planning. PPP will always end up with a mediocre product. The only solution is to get rid of PPP.

[Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui @murtazawahab1]

Last night work was carried out by KMC on the improvement of Rashid Minhas Road. This intervention is part of our initiative to improve important traffic corridors so that smooth flow of traffic can be maintained #KarachiWorks #HamaraShehar

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

:D :D :D :D

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: We’re asking the UN to call on Iran to stop blowing up ships, remove the mines, and allow humanitarian relief.

If the international community can’t rally behind this and solve something so straightforward, then I don’t know what the utility of the UN system is.

[Dr. Arif Alvi @ArifAlvi]

My leader @ImranKhanPTI sits in jail with his health in jeopardy. His imprisonment weighs on us every day. But I know him well enough to say this: He would want Pakistan's young people to keep building, to take on the world. Especially in AI. Especially now, without losing sight of the political struggle, which we will not abandon.
This thread is for them 🧵
—
Forced to stay away from my country gave me two benefits: More time and more passion. I chose not to waste either. This is a personal account:

It started with my need to transcribe my long speeches, some over thirty minutes, in mixed English and Urdu on YouTube (which gave a Hindi/Sanskrit transcript). The platforms available would do a bad job with the mix. So, I asked my coaches — ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini and I concluded to do it myself, locally, with Whisper’s large, medium & small models and other AI tools. This was completed in Dec ‘25

For the sake of open source and transparency, I am publishing it on GitHub.
https://t.co/yR9X32e819

In January ’26, I began building the Dr Arif Alvi AI Archive. An attempt to bring together everything I had said, written, read, and recorded across decades, and make it searchable, synthesizable, MINE.
I built it alone. No team. No budget. Just time, curiosity, and persistence.
It runs entirely on my enhanced laptop. My data never leaves it.

My AI agents ingest my writings/articles; thousands of books read and summarised; millions of words of archival material; my thousands of speeches on YouTube press conferences; thousands of talk show appearances since 2000 and clips on YouTube. All scraped from the net via APIs— indexed, and alive inside my local RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) system that answers back.

My 50,000+ tweets are searchable faster than X's own tools. Not just by keyword but semantically.
None of it leaves my computer or enters the public domain, remains private.
—
The local LLMs answer questions, draft research briefs, synthesize across all data. When I need to reach beyond my own archive, they augment from public LLMs — ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, others.
I use the archive every day, updating it regularly. It has changed how I think and work.
—
Following are the layers of the stack — what I built is one-of-one. But what I built it from is available to every-one:

▶️ Ollama / Llama / Phi / Qwen — local LLMs running entirely on-device
▶️ Whisper — bilingual English-Urdu speech transcription
▶️ ChromaDB — vector memory across 70,000+ chunks
▶️ Sentence Transformers — semantic search across tweets, speeches, and archives
▶️ Streamlit — dashboard with dual modes: semantic search and AI research
▶️ Six LLM interfaces (ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot) for python scripts and for augmentation of local output
▶️ OpenClaw and GitHub — for code management
▶️VS Code — for scripts and code writing
None of them are mine. The COMPOSITION is mine.
—
I should tell you what it took to get here.

I started learning Python basics from online courses. I am not a programmer, but I reviewed and iterated over a million lines of scripts —learning, correcting, improving, understanding—just enough to keep going.

I had launched Pakistan's Presidential Initiative on Artificial Intelligence in 2019. I thought I understood AI but I took advanced courses anyway. There is always more to learn, and humility about ignorance is not a weakness. It is the only honest starting point.
—
There are tens of thousands of students, researchers, operators, lawyers, and doctors across Pakistan and the world, quietly trying to dabble in AI right now.

To them I would say: software writing is mostly done by machines today. You do not need to become a programmer. You need to understand enough to read, direct, correct and employ tools — like a symphony conductor, with an AI baton.

More than anything, pick a project. Something real, something yours.🔑 Scripts fill the architecture. Concrete fills the blueprint.

GET TO WORK

And do not move slowly. AI tools and agentic systems are changing every single day. What was remarkable yesterday is ordinary today. Sometimes the gap is hours, not months.
The people who stay ahead are not waiting to fully understand it before they begin.
THEY ARE ALREADY BUILDING.
—
Pakistan cannot afford to fall behind in this.
Not out of nostalgia for what Pakistan was, but out of economic and strategic urgency for what it must become — because our talented, hungry people can build anything when given the tools and the leadership.
This is for them.
START

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

And, the powerful people decided to install @AAliZardari instead as our President!

[Dr. Arif Alvi @ArifAlvi]

My leader @ImranKhanPTI sits in jail with his health in jeopardy. His imprisonment weighs on us every day. But I know him well enough to say this: He would want Pakistan's young people to keep building, to take on the world. Especially in AI. Especially now, without losing sight of the political struggle, which we will not abandon.
This thread is for them 🧵
—
Forced to stay away from my country gave me two benefits: More time and more passion. I chose not to waste either. This is a personal account:

It started with my need to transcribe my long speeches, some over thirty minutes, in mixed English and Urdu on YouTube (which gave a Hindi/Sanskrit transcript). The platforms available would do a bad job with the mix. So, I asked my coaches — ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini and I concluded to do it myself, locally, with Whisper’s large, medium & small models and other AI tools. This was completed in Dec ‘25

For the sake of open source and transparency, I am publishing it on GitHub.
https://t.co/yR9X32e819

In January ’26, I began building the Dr Arif Alvi AI Archive. An attempt to bring together everything I had said, written, read, and recorded across decades, and make it searchable, synthesizable, MINE.
I built it alone. No team. No budget. Just time, curiosity, and persistence.
It runs entirely on my enhanced laptop. My data never leaves it.

My AI agents ingest my writings/articles; thousands of books read and summarised; millions of words of archival material; my thousands of speeches on YouTube press conferences; thousands of talk show appearances since 2000 and clips on YouTube. All scraped from the net via APIs— indexed, and alive inside my local RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) system that answers back.

My 50,000+ tweets are searchable faster than X's own tools. Not just by keyword but semantically.
None of it leaves my computer or enters the public domain, remains private.
—
The local LLMs answer questions, draft research briefs, synthesize across all data. When I need to reach beyond my own archive, they augment from public LLMs — ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, others.
I use the archive every day, updating it regularly. It has changed how I think and work.
—
Following are the layers of the stack — what I built is one-of-one. But what I built it from is available to every-one:

▶️ Ollama / Llama / Phi / Qwen — local LLMs running entirely on-device
▶️ Whisper — bilingual English-Urdu speech transcription
▶️ ChromaDB — vector memory across 70,000+ chunks
▶️ Sentence Transformers — semantic search across tweets, speeches, and archives
▶️ Streamlit — dashboard with dual modes: semantic search and AI research
▶️ Six LLM interfaces (ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot) for python scripts and for augmentation of local output
▶️ OpenClaw and GitHub — for code management
▶️VS Code — for scripts and code writing
None of them are mine. The COMPOSITION is mine.
—
I should tell you what it took to get here.

I started learning Python basics from online courses. I am not a programmer, but I reviewed and iterated over a million lines of scripts —learning, correcting, improving, understanding—just enough to keep going.

I had launched Pakistan's Presidential Initiative on Artificial Intelligence in 2019. I thought I understood AI but I took advanced courses anyway. There is always more to learn, and humility about ignorance is not a weakness. It is the only honest starting point.
—
There are tens of thousands of students, researchers, operators, lawyers, and doctors across Pakistan and the world, quietly trying to dabble in AI right now.

To them I would say: software writing is mostly done by machines today. You do not need to become a programmer. You need to understand enough to read, direct, correct and employ tools — like a symphony conductor, with an AI baton.

More than anything, pick a project. Something real, something yours.🔑 Scripts fill the architecture. Concrete fills the blueprint.

GET TO WORK

And do not move slowly. AI tools and agentic systems are changing every single day. What was remarkable yesterday is ordinary today. Sometimes the gap is hours, not months.
The people who stay ahead are not waiting to fully understand it before they begin.
THEY ARE ALREADY BUILDING.
—
Pakistan cannot afford to fall behind in this.
Not out of nostalgia for what Pakistan was, but out of economic and strategic urgency for what it must become — because our talented, hungry people can build anything when given the tools and the leadership.
This is for them.
START

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

Oh damn!

[AMJAD KHAN @iAmjadKhann]

🚨محسن نقوی نے اپنا کالا دھن ایمنسٹی کے ذریعے سفید کیا محسن نقوی کی بیوی کا اپارٹمنٹ دبئی لیکس میں ظاہر ہوا محسن نقوی نے جواب دیا کہ اس کا پیسہ کیسے باہر گیا محسن نقوی نے کچھ دن پہلے کہا کہ 100 ارب ڈالر باہر گیا وہ تو خود پیسہ باہر لے کر گئے وہ دوسروں کا پیسہ کیسے لائیں گے سندھ کے مختلف ایئرپورٹس پر آج بھی جہاز اتر رہے ہیں جو کالا دھن دبئی لے کر جا رہے ہیں ! ابصار عالم

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

The situation of Sindh is summed up here. Whether to laugh or cry, you decide!

[Times of Karachi @TOKCityOfLights]

A heated exchange took place between police personnel and a young man in Karachi’s Defence area. The young man’s father, Ali Anwar, alleged that his son was harassed during the incident and urged the Sindh Interior Minister to avoid considering a one-sided version of the matter.

#Karachi #TOKReports

[Sohaib Nehal @Sohaib_Nehal]

So, CM ordered the Army to expedite the work after the Army took over the project because of your incompetence? @murtazawahab1

[Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui @murtazawahab1]

CM Sindh visited University Road early morning along with FWO team to oversee work on the mixed traffic lane as well as the storm water drain. CM has directed that work be expedited so that inconvenience being caused to the public is minimised. Target of completing the work within 90 days to be ensured #KarachiWorks #HamaraShehar

[Ben Lang @benln]

YC on how to build a company with AI from the ground up: