Abid Qaiyum Suleri

Heads indpndnt #policy #thinktank @SDPIPakistan. Board Member @ADBInstitute , Chairman @ndrmfpk, Thrice on PM’s #Economic Advisory Councils. #Pakistan First

[Abid Qaiyum Suleri @Abidsuleri]

#EidGreetings
#EidMubarak

[Zainab Naeem @ZainabNaeem7]

The budget reflects a fiscal model in which climate is increasingly becoming a source of revenue collection rather than a destination for public investment.

👉While the federal gov expects to collect over Rs 2.0 trillion through #climate/green-linked revenues & levies, #climate-tagged spending has fallen from 🔴Rs 716.8 billion to just Rs 214.0 billion — a nearly 70% decline.

▪️ #Adaptation down🔻 to Rs 70.5 bn
▪️ #Mitigation down🔻 to Rs 124 bn
▪️ #Environment Protection budget🔻 reduced by 18% compared to FY2025
▪️ #Disaster allocation up⏫️ 132%, but largely after disasters occur

Government has introduced EV Adoption Levy (22.481 Bln) along with Climate Support Levy (50 Bln). The point is if Climate Fund is not notified all the revenue is becoming part of general revenue stream!!!!

Its an EYEWASH!!!!!

#Budget2026

[TeamNadiaMirza @TeamNadiaMirza]

Watch Now Special Budget Transmission live at @BOLNETWORK with @nadia_a_mirza and @PresidentRcci ، @Abidsuleri ، @KhaqanNajeeb

https://t.co/LtgPPJAXsZ

[WE News English @WENewsEnglish]

IT & Mining Industry Can Transform Pakistan’s Economy: Executive Director, SDPI

Full Episode: https://t.co/8vEc8LvBIu

WE News English Program: Insight
Host: Mateen Haider
Guest: Dr. Abid Qaiyum Suleri, Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute
@haider_mateen @Abidsuleri

[SDPI @SDPIPakistan]

◼️| SDPI Budget Analysis 2026 |◼️

🔸2025 نے پاکستان کو جنگ، سیلاب، مہنگی توانائی اور عالمی عدم استحکام کے ذریعے ہر محاذ پر آزمایا۔

🔸لیکن پاکستان کا اصل چیلنج survival نہیں؛ consistency، policy continuity اور resilience کو sustainable growth میں بدلنا ہے۔

🔸سولر انقلاب مسئلہ نہیں؛ مہنگی گرڈ بجلی مسئلہ ہے۔ بجلی سستی کریں، صنعت چلائیں، اور capacity payments کو productive استعمال میں لائیں۔

| @Abidsuleri | @ExpressNewsPK |
#EnergyCrisis #SolarPakistan #PakistanEconomy #IndustrialGrowth #SustainableGrowth
#EconomicSurvey2025_2026

[SDPI @SDPIPakistan]

◼️ 𝐒𝐃𝐏𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 ◼️

🔸 Dr. Abid Qaiyum Suleri, Executive Director SDPI, on Pakistan's Economic Survey 2026:

"𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬."
🔹 Growth up, but exports fell 8%
🔹 Poverty rose to 28.9%
🔹Tax shortfall of Rs684.4bn

@thenews_intl
#SDPI #EconomicSurvey #Budget2026 #PakistanEconomy

[Abid Qaiyum Suleri @Abidsuleri]

Relief measures in #Pakistan’s #FederalBdget.

Govt will be broadening the tax base and improving tax enforcement to sustain these measures.

[SDPI @SDPIPakistan]

◼️| SDPI Budget Analysis 2026 |◼️

🔸معاشی بہتری خوش آئند ہے، مگر اس کی قیمت صرف تنخواہ دار اور documented طبقہ کیوں ادا کرے؟

🔸برابر آمدنی، برابر ٹیکس — یہی اصل معاشی اصلاح ہے۔

🔸جب تک retailers، wholesalers، property اور undocumented businesses کو منصفانہ انداز میں tax net میں نہیں لایا جاتا، documented طبقے پر مزید بوجھ ڈالنا معاشی انصاف نہیں بلکہ معاشی عدم توازن ہے۔
@Abidsuleri

#TaxJustice #PakistanEconomy #Budget2026 #DocumentedEconomy #EconomicSurvey2025_2026

[Abid Qaiyum Suleri @Abidsuleri]

#EconomicSurveyOfPakistan
Govt’s economic result card is out. Although most of the targets got missed but the performance in many cases is better than last 3 years. Especially resilience shown by our agriculture sector despite the floods of 2025 is a promising sign. One must keep in mind that this stabilisation is without enough insulation. We are still quite vulnerable to external shocks. In this context today’s budget should keep stabilisation but widen its purpose. It should protect the primary surplus, broaden the tax base, reduce energy import exposure, fund water security and make social protection shock responsive.

My comments on Eco Survey in @thenews_intl today.
https://t.co/4Ph92TQRvf

[Abid Qaiyum Suleri @Abidsuleri]

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay with the theme #NowForClinate. Even a cooperative world would struggle with the needed collective climate actions to save the planet and humanity from the impacts of climate change. The world being asked to act is fragmented and divided. Climate Action now competes with wars, sanctions, trade tensions, energy insecurity and debt pressures. However complacency is not an answer.
In my piece for @thenews_intl today, I have argued why it is important to turn #NowForClimate to #AlwaysForClimate and how #Pakistan can effectively contribute to that.

https://t.co/CCIXfjU7mq

[SDPI @SDPIPakistan]

📰 #SDPIinPress | 🌍#WorldEnvironmentDay2026
Read Dr. @Abidsuleri (Executive Director - SDPI and Chairperson Board of Directors (@ndrmfpk ))'s insight on World Environment Day, he elaborated the @UNEP's theme #NowForClimate campaign as its theme to promote climate action.

Read full article: https://t.co/rXo9n1M3Ui

[ABN NEWS @abnnewspk]

پاکستان میں بجٹ بنانا ایک مشکل مرحلہ ہوتا ہے! ڈاکٹر ��ابد سلہری

@alinashigri
@Abidsuleri
#ABNNews

[Abid Qaiyum Suleri @Abidsuleri]

Are we ready for #ClimateWhiplash?

“Climate whiplash” describes rapid swings between extremes (hot/cold, dry/wet) driven by disruptions in atmospheric circulation due to global warming. It is affecting most parts of Europe this week. Where the temperature has swung 15 degree centigrade within a week. The maximum was around 18 degree celcius on May 17 and yesterday it went up to 34.8 in London (the highest for May in UK since 1944).

These swings increase risks for public health, infrastructure, agriculture, and #energy systems. Short-term records are symptoms of a longer-term trend.

Rich countries can scale up mitigation and resilience. Countries like Pakistan will have to strengthen #adaptation at local level. Climate whiplash can lead to extreme #FoodInsecurity along with other risks. Are we ready for it?

#ClimateChange

[Abid Qaiyum Suleri @Abidsuleri]

@AmirMateen2 @SdqJaan May Allah bless his soul and give you strength to bear this loss.

[SDPI @SDPIPakistan]

Report Launch SEZ Led Green Industrialization: How Pakistan Can Compete for China’s Green Manufacturing FDI https://t.co/AkOYjFtP4a

[Abid Qaiyum Suleri @Abidsuleri]

The IMF’s latest review and the numbers released by @StateBank_Pak confirm that the macroeconomy is better than last year. The govt has committed with IMF to continue fiscal consolidation, raise tax revenues and resist providing debt-creating popular relief. In principle, this must be appreciated. However, the govt must recognise that salaried workers, documented businesses & indirect taxpayers are overburdened by taxes. They will happily continue to bear this burden if they see taxable income in agriculture, real estate, retail, services and other undertaxed areas being brought into the net. If that does not happen, the fiscal deficit may narrow, but the trust deficit between citizens and the state will widen.
Essentially, the budget for the next fiscal year will determine if the government is serious about reducing this trust deficit.
What else will be in the budget?. I have tried to decode the Memorandum of Economic & Financial Policies (MEFP) submitted by GOP to the IMF for @thenews_intl today.

https://t.co/09XJlp3iau

#Pakistan #Economy #EnergyPrices #IMF

[Fahd Husain @Fahdhusain]

In this first event of “The Express 24/7 Dialogues” we partner with @SDPIPakistan to discuss Pakistan’s energy options in times of a global crisis.
@81ShahbazRana @Abidsuleri

[ndrmf-pk @ndrmfpk]

Through its interventions, NDRMF integrates Environmental and Social Management System (#ESMS) compliance across #projects to ensure #environmentally #sustainable,#riskinformed, and #resilientdevelopment that reduces long-term #climate and #disasterrisks.

[ndrmf-pk @ndrmfpk]

Addressing these challenges requires #scaling #investments in #climateadaptation, #resilientinfrastructure, #ecosystemprotection, and preparedness systems before hazards turn into large-scale losses.

[SDPI @SDPIPakistan]

#SDPIGreatEnergyDebate

“Pakistan cannot afford to take the energy crisis lightly anymore. We need smarter policies and targeted subsidies for those who need relief the most, we need to maintain balance”

— Dr. @Abidsuleri
#EnergyDebate #PakistanEconomy #SDPI #Express24/7