A humble request to the owners of #jalalsons in #Lahore .. I was waiting outside one of your stores where I saw the foodpada rider standing outside on the steps at arpund 3PM today. The temperature was 42° and it was extremely hot. When the rider arrived to collect the order he was assigned, the guard did not allow him to enter the store. Why? Why was he asked to stand outside and wait while his order is prepared? I stayed outside to watch this all. The person with him came out twice to confirm the order and kept him waiting in the sun. No shade. No relief from thr heat. He asked for water and was declined rather snubbed. This is inhuman and racist behavior. Koi khuda ka khouf karein.
Pakistan Tax-GDP ratio is just 10.8%, it's lowest in the region and World
Direct Tax collection is around 5% which is lowest in the World
While Govt all set to collect indirect 1.7 trillion rupees tax levy from consumers
This is institutional incompetence and not sustainable
Pakistan will advance in every field if the colonial posts of Commissioners, DCs, &ACs are ABOLISHED. Instead of British-made Divisions, Districts & Tehsils, we should have Municipal Govts in every city and a cluster of a few villages. We need directly elected Mayors & Councils!!
Pakistan Qurbani Economics -- 1000 billion rupees -- Cash
Pakistan Marriage Economy -- 1.5-2 trillion rupees -- Cash
Less than 10% of Retailer, Arhti, Lawyers, Doctors, Real State etc pay taxes
Pak Tax to GDP lowest in the region This is not sustainable Man
Producing nearly as many scientific papers as Taiwan but exporting 1/50th the technology, Pakistan is clearly not living up to its potential. Two decades of public investment have produced a Pakistani research base ranking it 26th globally
Two decades of public investment have produced a Pakistani research base ranking 26th globally — 45,576 indexed papers per year, with citation impact in Engineering, Computer Science, and Agriculture exceeding the United States, India, or Israel. The asset is uncommercialised
Pakistan will advance in every field if the colonial posts of Commissioners, DCs, &ACs are ABOLISHED. Instead of British-made Divisions, Districts & Tehsils, we should have Municipal Govts in every city and a cluster of a few villages. We need directly elected Mayors & Councils!!
Finally it comes out. The genocidal prime minister of israel actually VISITED the uae during the war on iran. In case anyone still wants to ask why uae was targeted the way it was. Its east israel.
Pakistan may be accidentally building one of the world’s first decentralised #solar economies. The craziest part? Real scale barely shows in official stats. Imported 51.5 GW solar panels by late 2025—nearly = entire grid. Yet registered net-metered rooftop solar just 5.3–6.8 GW.
What makes this story so extraordinary is the speed.
In only a few years, Pakistan appears to have gone from a relatively minor solar market to potentially sourcing around a quarter of its electricity from solar once distributed generation is included.
👉 ~16.6–17 GW solar imports in 2024
👉 ~18 GW solar imports in 2025
👉 ~51.5 GW cumulative imports by late 2025
👉 Rooftop solar: ~1.3 GW → 4.1 GW in 2024
👉 ~5.3–6.8 GW registered rooftop solar in 2025
👉 24+ GW estimated behind-the-meter/off-grid
👉 Solar potentially ~25% of actual electricity use
The massive gap between imported panels and officially registered systems strongly suggests tens of gigawatts are now operating quietly on homes, farms, factories and businesses across the country.
This increasingly looks less like a normal energy transition and more like large-scale consumer-led grid defection.
And economics is driving nearly all of it.
Electricity tariffs surged. Diesel prices climbed. Blackouts remained common. Meanwhile ultra-cheap Chinese solar panels and falling battery prices made self-generation economically irresistible.
So millions effectively made the same calculation:
Generate your own power, or remain trapped inside an expensive and unstable system.
Once solar becomes cheaper than the grid itself, adoption can move faster than governments, utilities and even official statistics can keep up with.
This isn’t gradual transition by any stretch. It may ultimately become a blueprint for how energy-poor nations break free from legacy old-world energy systems dominated by fossil fuels and increasingly expensive centralised power.
It’s decentralisation at escape velocity.
This is #Bettrification.
Pakistan will advance in every field if the colonial posts of Commissioners, DCs, &ACs are ABOLISHED.
Instead of British-made Divisions, Districts & Tehsils, we should have Municipal Govts in every city and a cluster of a few villages. We need directly elected Mayors.
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what was wrong with it.
When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.
It baffles me how I find MADE IN PAKISTAN on Every second clothing article here in US.
Its clothes, bedding, towels, kitchen rags n towels. Literally everywhere