Zain Habib

Energy innovation & decarbonisation enthusiast; Man Utd & Pak cricket fan; RTs/likes are not endorsements, just my choice. Views my own.

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@IlhanNiaz Attending a university doesn’t automatically make you a credible professional who’d engage intellectual capability. Unfortunately most of Pakistani administration falls in that category. Plus a degree on its is meaningless. You need technocrats with proper experience.

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@asadnasir2000 @ExpressNewsPK Pakistan moving in the opposite direction. Well done!

[Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra @Jhagra]

Quite a staggering press conference by the Power Minister I must say...

Here is a point by point summary of the presser which may be helpful.

1. He starts off by admitting hamaray control mein kuch bhi nahin...

2. Then he says PMLN ne hamesha ke liye awam ko load shedding ke azab se azad kiya, in a presser about excessive load shedding for which he is apologising.

3. He first admits the role of LNG shortages in the load shedding issue, contradictory to the govt trying to press that this is because of reduced hydro electricity production.

4. Then he pivots to say that the issue is indeed of hydro electricity; a 1700 MW shortfall because the water cannot be released; effectively blaming the agriculture sector. Ridiculous, because the reservoirs are for irrigation, and hydroelectric production is a by product. It is the inability to plan for this that is on the govt.

5. Then he says there is no loadshedding during daylight hours, because of solar production - the same solar the govt tried to discredit. The claim is not true. Scores of feeders in Peshawar are seeing unannounced all day outages.

6. Then he says we have double the production capacity from gas (that we can't use because we have no more gas), and that we are using all the furnace oil in the country; effectively saying there is a fuel crisis in the country.

7. Then he says the wag the dog kneejerk power strategy effectively also led to industrial load shedding, so now the govt is damaging the economy as well as making consumers furious.

8. Then he says HESCO & KE is not suffering additional load shedding because there is enough power in the south, then why not the same logic to KP and Tarbela???

9. Then the piece de resistance that the 2.5 hours load shedding is to reduce electricity bills for the public - which seems to be the most amazing marketing spin by the power sector for this unmitigated disaster. And to rub salt into the wounds he says this is the result of the major power sector reforms or which he is proud.

This govt keeps failing miserably, and then thinks it can pass its failures as success. Extreme case of Form47itis...

Full Presser:
https://t.co/PUYJmrgW8E

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

You broke the ceasefire with a massacre so bloody that Beirut hospitals are begging for blood donations.

I’m in shock.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is Iran's 10 point plan - which Trump has accepted as "a workable basis on which to negotiate."

Have no doubt:

This is the biggest strategic defeat suffered by the US since its emergence as a superpower.

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@ryangrim @PmlnMedia clowns

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@MehwishQamas @iamshafaatali any jokes to entertain those paying taxes?

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@ThePakistanExp1 Uncle will also call indiscriminate genocide of Palestinians by Israel a strategic masterstroke.

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@Alyhassan959 Chor macheye shor. Literally

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@SaadonaBreak3 Is this real or satire?

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@muneebfaruqpak @CMShehbaz If beghairiti had a face.

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@JaanwarNeutral Joker forever. Who takes a man earning his livelihood doing mimicry?

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@tequieremos Via Patwaris to serve Patwaris

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@Dr_Morbius_ @iamshafaatali life of a clown is hilarious

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

Adjustments are necessary during emergency times. Yet, a country where elites consume subsidies of $17.4 billion annually, it does not inspire confidence when already burdened middle & working classes face austerity. End elite subsidies rather than shifting burden on the public.

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@khantainer Patwaris didn’t go to school. Gave two-nation theory a completely new meaning

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@lilmisskhawaja The price / barrel is not at all proportional to the increase. Supply chain is not disrupted for Pakistan. You can figure out the rest

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@mooodey @lilmisskhawaja The price is 108$/barrel. Less than 2022. Quit Samad bond.

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@FatimaPTI_IK @_Mansoor_Ali jahanum

[Zain Habib @Zain_Habib]

@am_nawazish Good on you speaking the truth