Suleman Farooq

Spinning a Yarn which Weaves a life. Ambivert.

[Suleman Farooq @SulemanPannu]

Youth is relative, Love is absolute.

[Crimson Chin @chindotlvl2]

Buy petrol for 400rs.
Get stuck in a fuckass protocol.
Waste fuel for half hour.
Get late for work.
Repeat.

Great austerity measures @GovtofPunjabPK @MaryamNSharif @AliPervaiz450 @IMFNews @raftardotcom
This is today at 9am near garden town Barkat market Lahore.

[Nabeel Ali @Nabeel1124]

Chinese car makers and their positioning

We just got a handful of them 😆

[Arven @arvenxbt]

A dead MIT professor accidentally gave away the playbook behind a $20 billion executive coaching industry in a single free lecture.

Millions have watched it.

He recorded it in January 2018 and died just eighteen months later.

His name was Patrick Winston. He ran MIT’s AI Laboratory for 25 years and spent decades teaching one thing most brilliant people struggle with: how to speak.

Every January, he gave the same lecture: “How to Speak.”

The framework is ridiculously simple:

Don’t read.
Be in the image.
Keep visuals simple.
Start by connecting with the audience.
End with something people remember.
And one rule stands out:
Never start with a joke.
Never end with “thank you.”
His opening line says everything:
“Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order.”

Founders pay thousands for communication coaching. Students spend years learning technical skills.

Meanwhile, Winston’s entire framework is sitting online for free.
The lecture is free.
The textbook is free.

The information was never the scarce part.

Actually using it is.

[Víctor M. | HipoteLab @Hipotelab]

7. La gente te juzgará sin importar lo que hagas.

¿Triunfas? Eres arrogante.

¿Fracasa? Eres incompetente.

¿Te quedas callado? Eres aburrido.

¿Hablas? Buscas atención.

Así que haz lo que TÚ quieres. De todos modos, te están juzgando.

[Salahu @salahudeen33]

Sunnah that Multiple Your Barakah(Blessings)

THREAD

[Suleman Farooq @SulemanPannu]

@CMShehbaz @OfficialDGISPR this is about our survival & prosperity of our future generations. India is threatening it by targeting our water, our lifeline !!!

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is an absolutely major story and almost no Western media covered it: India's water minister CR Patil said on Tuesday that "it is certain, not a single drop of water will go (to Pakistan) in the coming years."

Patil said that India is "actively working on it" after "directives" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

As a reminder, Pakistan's dependence on water from India is close to total: the country is essentially built around the Indus river system, all of whose rivers flow through India before entering Pakistan.

The Indus system irrigates 80% of Pakistan's farmland, generates a third of its electricity, supplies its major cities with drinking water, and sustains the livelihoods of some 240 million people.

So, essentially, no water from India = annihilation of Pakistan as a state.

Pretty damn consequential, all the more given we're talking about 2 nuclear powers here. And all the more because, understandably, Pakistan's formal position is that water diversion would constitute "an act of war" (https://t.co/WLoDpGzc2W).

Unfortunately, Patil's statement isn't just talk: India already set up the legal framework to make this possible. Last year, they unilaterally suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, despite the treaty containing no withdrawal clause.

It used to be the one piece of India-Pakistan relations that worked, and had survived multiple wars and over six decades of hostility. Now India is saying officially that it will "never be restored" (https://t.co/2SnUNevFbX).

The one mitigating factor here is physics: you don't just "turn off" a major Himalayan river system. Diverting rivers of this magnitude means building massive storage and canal infrastructure in Himalayan terrain: projects measured in years.

But India IS ACTUALLY BUILDING that infrastructure: for instance it just approved in May the building of the so-called "Chenab–Beas Link Tunnel," an 8.7km ₹2,352 crore (~$280M) tunnel designed to divert water from the Chenab basin into India's Beas river system. The Chenab is one of the main tributaries of the Indus - and one of the three "western rivers" (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) allocated to Pakistan under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty.

Which means that, unfortunately, Patil's "not a single drop of water in the coming years" looks like a roadmap: the infrastructure to strangle Pakistan's water supply is being approved and tendered in plain sight.

This is also a story about selective media coverage and double standards: I'm willing to bet that 99% of people in the West have never heard of any of this.

Now make this thought experiment: imagine China announced it was building infrastructure to cut off every drop of water flowing to India and its ministers proclaimed on television that "not a single drop" would cross the border. It would be wall-to-wall coverage, sanctions packages, and a thousand op-eds about Beijing "weaponizing water."

Heck we don't need to imagine because the simple fact of China merely building a hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo (the upstream Brahmaputra) generated exactly the wall-to-wall alarm I'm describing, even though China threatened nothing and even though Indian officials said the threat is a "myth" given the fact that the river gathers most of its volume inside India from monsoon rains (https://t.co/GBgBybBPoE). Malign intent was still presumed from the act of construction, because it's China.

In India's case, the intent couldn't possibly be clearer: it's proclaimed by ministers on the record, and backed by India's actions. But because they're a courted Western partner, what they're doing - arguably the most extreme form of economic warfare imaginable, directed at a nuclear state - largely gets silence.

Src for screenshot: https://t.co/qav4muNkij

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is an absolutely major story and almost no Western media covered it: India's water minister CR Patil said on Tuesday that "it is certain, not a single drop of water will go (to Pakistan) in the coming years."

Patil said that India is "actively working on it" after "directives" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

As a reminder, Pakistan's dependence on water from India is close to total: the country is essentially built around the Indus river system, all of whose rivers flow through India before entering Pakistan.

The Indus system irrigates 80% of Pakistan's farmland, generates a third of its electricity, supplies its major cities with drinking water, and sustains the livelihoods of some 240 million people.

So, essentially, no water from India = annihilation of Pakistan as a state.

Pretty damn consequential, all the more given we're talking about 2 nuclear powers here. And all the more because, understandably, Pakistan's formal position is that water diversion would constitute "an act of war" (https://t.co/WLoDpGzc2W).

Unfortunately, Patil's statement isn't just talk: India already set up the legal framework to make this possible. Last year, they unilaterally suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, despite the treaty containing no withdrawal clause.

It used to be the one piece of India-Pakistan relations that worked, and had survived multiple wars and over six decades of hostility. Now India is saying officially that it will "never be restored" (https://t.co/2SnUNevFbX).

The one mitigating factor here is physics: you don't just "turn off" a major Himalayan river system. Diverting rivers of this magnitude means building massive storage and canal infrastructure in Himalayan terrain: projects measured in years.

But India IS ACTUALLY BUILDING that infrastructure: for instance it just approved in May the building of the so-called "Chenab–Beas Link Tunnel," an 8.7km ₹2,352 crore (~$280M) tunnel designed to divert water from the Chenab basin into India's Beas river system. The Chenab is one of the main tributaries of the Indus - and one of the three "western rivers" (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) allocated to Pakistan under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty.

Which means that, unfortunately, Patil's "not a single drop of water in the coming years" looks like a roadmap: the infrastructure to strangle Pakistan's water supply is being approved and tendered in plain sight.

This is also a story about selective media coverage and double standards: I'm willing to bet that 99% of people in the West have never heard of any of this.

Now make this thought experiment: imagine China announced it was building infrastructure to cut off every drop of water flowing to India and its ministers proclaimed on television that "not a single drop" would cross the border. It would be wall-to-wall coverage, sanctions packages, and a thousand op-eds about Beijing "weaponizing water."

Heck we don't need to imagine because the simple fact of China merely building a hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo (the upstream Brahmaputra) generated exactly the wall-to-wall alarm I'm describing, even though China threatened nothing and even though Indian officials said the threat is a "myth" given the fact that the river gathers most of its volume inside India from monsoon rains (https://t.co/GBgBybBPoE). Malign intent was still presumed from the act of construction, because it's China.

In India's case, the intent couldn't possibly be clearer: it's proclaimed by ministers on the record, and backed by India's actions. But because they're a courted Western partner, what they're doing - arguably the most extreme form of economic warfare imaginable, directed at a nuclear state - largely gets silence.

Src for screenshot: https://t.co/qav4muNkij

[Ali Haider Zaidi @AliHZaidiPTI]

This budget should make your blood boil. Let me show you why.

Pakistan's interest payments this year: Rs. 8,054 billion.

Pakistan's entire development budget, roads, dams, hospitals, schools, everything: Rs. 1,000 billion.

Eight rupees go to debt service for every one rupee invested in this country. This is not a budget. This is a confession.

Understand what this debt is. It was not borrowed to build Pakistan. Over the years, it was borrowed by corrupt politicians who were simultaneously busy building their own empires, inside and outside of Pakistan.

Now you and I are paying interest on their corruption.

Government will borrow another Rs. 7,000 billion on top of everything that already exists.
Borrow to pay interest on previous borrowing.

This is a debt trap and we are in it.

And they took out full page newspaper adverts at your expense to celebrate it.

Now let's look at Bangladesh. Same region. Same starting point. Very different choices.

Bangladesh total budget: $76 billion. Pakistan: $60 billion.

Bangladesh development spending: $24 billion. Pakistan: $3.6 billion.

Bangladesh interest payments: $10.4 billion. Pakistan: $29 billion.

Bangladesh education budget: $6.9 billion. Pakistan, federal and all four provinces combined: $3.5 billion.

They have 83 million fewer people than us and still spend twice as much educating them.

Bangladesh defence: $3.5 billion. Pakistan defence: $10.8 billion.

We spend 3 times more on defence than Bangladesh and our interest bill is 8 times their entire defence budget.

They are spending 6.5 times more on building their country than we are. And they are paying a third of what we pay in interest.

Now look at what this has done to our people.

Pakistan's GDP and Bangladesh's GDP are almost identical, around $450 billion each.
But Pakistan has 83 million more people.

Bangladesh's income/person: $2,621.
Pakistan: $1,901.
There taka is 122/dollar
Our Rs is 278/dollar

Poverty in Pakistan: 44.7%.
Poverty in Bangladesh: 5.9%.

Literacy in Pakistan: 60% (doubtful)
Literacy in Bangladesh: 77%

Once again our interest payments:
Rs. 8,054 billion.
Our defence budget: Rs. 3,000 billion. Interest payments are 2.7 times the defence budget.

This is far more damning than anything else!

I want to say something clearly. If this trajectory is not broken in the next two to three years, the security of this country will become unaffordable.

This is not a political statement.
This is basic maths.

These numbers are not accidental.
This is what elite capture looks like.

Wake up.

#Budget2026
#Corruption

[Radio Muft Baluchistan @DerArschloch]

Pakistan's working class currently pays:-

- Income tax.
- WHT.
- GST.
- FED.
- PST.
- FED+GST+Addl Income Tax surcharge+FAP on utilities.
- Carbon levy.
- Petroleum Levy.
- Property Tax.
- Token Tax.

So on and forth.

Most of them are predatory and unfair. Yet PTA tax on luxury mobiles is the hill these ministers want to die on.

[MAT @MAliTabba]

Proud to mark a defining moment for Pakistan’s automotive landscape as Lucky Motor Corporation officially introduced GAC Motor to the country on May 20 in Karachi.

The launch saw the unveiling of a new generation of intelligent electric mobility through the Hyptec HT, Aion V, and Aion UT.

This represents more than new vehicles. It reflects our commitment to innovation, sustainable mobility, and bringing globally competitive technology to Pakistani consumers.

A new chapter begins. Quietly Ahead.

[The Whistle Blower @InsiderWB]

Breaking 🔥

Chinese Artist Li Wei releases a special legoland song praising Pakistan for playing a role in preventing a global nuclear catastrophe,

From Iran to China, the world remains all praise for Pakistan

[Musadaq Zulqarnain @MusadaqZ]

Pleased to share that Shifa International Hospital will be soft launched in coming weeks and will be soon fully operational in Lyallpur (Faisalabad)—a joint venture between Interloop Holdings & Shifa International
This milestone reflects a deliberate investment in strengthening the city’s social infrastructure, grounded in our conviction that access to quality healthcare is a critical driver of sustainable economic progress
@ILHoldings
@ShifaIntl

[AHMET AKSOY @ahmetaksoyTA]

@MOSSADil When someone kills, they’re labeled a Muslim — but when someone saves lives, they’re called a civilian hero 🤣🤣 This is ridiculous. Intelligence level 🤣🤣
Praise be, I am a Muslim.

[Idris @7signxx]

This is One Scary Read. May Allah forgive us and have mercy on our souls...

THREAD

[Zulfiqar Ahmed 🤔 @ZulfiqarAhmed69]

How do become part of this list?
World total exports are $24.5 trillion.
Pakistan total exports are around $32 billion.

[Idris @7signxx]

Recite and repost...

[Dan Getso👨🏾‍🌾 @Adaugetso10]

Verse of the day.