Ahmad Shabbar

@pakmaholthfz
@climate_reach
@gbgecan
@theenvironorg
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Pak's 1st Climate Justice electoral candidate
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Member FPCCI SC on Human Rights
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Retweet ≠ Endorsement

[Ahmad Shabbar @AhShabbar]

@jzee62 @FBRSpokesperson Sure, ok!

[Nusrat Javeed @javeednusrat]

The Pakistani middle class is not shrinking. It is being erased.Daily petrol hike. Daily diesel hike. We are being executed in public and told it is economics.Fill the tank or feed the children. Pay the school or keep the lights on. Choose which part of your life dies first.The government will not stop until the word “middle class” only exists as a notion.

[Soch سوچ @SochVideos]

منگل کو انتظامیہ نے کراچی کے ضلع ملیر میں لوگوں کی نجی زمینوں پر بلڈوزر چلا کر فصلیں تباہ کر دیں اور سینکڑوں درخت گرا دیے۔ پولیس 10 افراد کو بھی گرفتار کر کے لے گئی۔ علاقہ مکینوں کا الزام ہے کہ شاہراہ بھٹو گزارنے کے لیے ان سے زبردستی ان کی آبائی زمینیں چھینی جا رہی ہیں۔ تفصیلات جانیے اس ویڈی�� میں۔
#SochVideos #MalirExpressway #SharaheBhutto #PPP #Sindh #Karachi

[Ahmad Shabbar @AhShabbar]

Is this 'development'?

[Hafeez Baloch @BalochHafeez201]

MALIR IS NOT FOR SALE
Today, Azeem Dhakan’s ancestral agricultural land was taken for the Bhutto Expressway after police detained him and members of his family. This is not merely a land dispute...1/6
#SaveMalir #IndigenousRights

[Benazir Shah @Benazir_Shah]

“Under one proposal being discussed, Karachi and Gwadar could come under the administrative control of the federal government, while the rest of Sindh would remain a single province.”

“Balochistan could be divided into two provinces, while Punjab could be divided into three.”

https://t.co/sQqfOdIOxJ

[Ahmad Shabbar @AhShabbar]

Pakistani officials continuously fail to read the room.

[Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the UN @PakistanUN_NY]

Honorable Sheikh Jaffar Khan Mandokhail, Governor of Balochistan province of Pakistan, reached the United Nations headquarters to represent the country at the Youth and AI Summit 2026 being organized by the International Organization of Youth in partnership with the Permanent Missions of the Bahamas and Dominica.

He was received by Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN, and officers of the Mission on arrival at the UN headquarters.

[Mubariz Siddiqui @MubarizSiddiqui]

This is heartbreaking. If Pakistan ever lives up to its economic potential, it will be because millions of young Pakistanis started thinking like Mir Raza. He was trying to do that.

He has now been turned into an example why people should leave instead. Justice needs to prevail to create hope.

[Ariba Shahid @AribaShahid]

Your yearly reminder that today isn’t a military day.
The Pakistan army didn’t fight a war to win independence in 1947.
The day is about revolutionaries, you, me, our families that struggled and made it to Pakistan, and families that welcomed people to Pakistan.

[Kulsoom Mughal @KLMughal]

It’s an absolute sham for responsible authorities who couldn’t able to provide justice to #MirRaza all those involved in fabrication of facts must be held accountable… we don’t deserve such shittiest police trying hard to protect the culprits by labelling the case as suicide

[Ahmad Shabbar @AhShabbar]

@SalAhmedPK Many have been screaming about this for a while now..

[Habibullah Khan @Huk06]

A 25 year old entrepreneur, who started Wafflix and gave back all the time to his alma mater IBA on lessons learned in his entrepreneurial journey, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Karachi. His body dumped.

Pakistani LinkedIn is in mourning. No major news channel picked it up. Because in our society people who provide jobs and generate economic value aren’t worth as much as the same politicians and same analysts discussing the same things with the same analysis for decades.

Such a tragedy. The fuel for the city of lights seems to be the blood of the brightest.

[Syed Talat Hussain @TalatHussain12]

History will remember how at one of the country's most critical junctures in recent memory, from Naushki to AJK, and in the presence of rising terrorism and collapsing regional orders, PML-N and PPP were enacting a pitiable theatre of the absurd trying to distract attention from the core issues. They really think they can insult national intelligence and nobody will notice.

[Yousuf Nazar @YousufNazar]

Annual cost of elite capture is more than $36 billion.

Pakistan’s most expensive economic problem is not debt, taxation, or even corruption in the conventional sense. It is a political economy where access to the state has become one of the country’s most profitable businesses.

In the earlier article, I estimated that elite capture costs Pakistan roughly Rs 6.7 trillion annually — equivalent to about 5.8 percent of GDP, or about $25 billion in 2024-25. This was the first comparable estimate since the 2020 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) study on elite privilege, which attempted to quantify the benefits received by powerful groups using available official data. https://t.co/ciUE1Lrd9c

Many of the largest transfers of wealth in Pakistan never appear in these documents. They occur through privileged access to land, regulatory protection, restricted competition, under-taxation of assets and state-created economic advantages. These channels are harder to measure, but they may be far larger in aggregate. The Rs 6.7 trillion estimate should therefore be viewed not as the total cost of elite capture, but as its minimum measurable cost. The question is how much larger the real burden might be.

https://t.co/ciUE1Lrd9c

[farrukh saleem @SaleemFarrukh]

Updated through 25 July 2026:

Pakistan’s diesel price has risen 18.6% in one week — from Rs323.30/litre to Rs383.46/litre.

Pakistan: +18.6%
Afghanistan: +1.4%
India: 0%
Bangladesh: 0%
Sri Lanka: 0%
Nepal: 0%
Pakistan has added Rs60.16 per litre in seven days.

[Shahbaz Rana @81ShahbazRana]

5th consecutive seamless-noiseless day of price hike!

Government has cumulatively increased petrol price by Rs21 per liter, to Rs332 since Friday. Today increase is Rs4.40.
Diesel price has been raised by a total Rs56 to Rs379/litre since Friday. The government chooses global crisis to enforce government-controlled daily prices adjustment. It’s not deregulation.
The federal cabinet has approved Rs1.8 billion special allowance for top bureaucrats with effect from July 1. Per litre tax on petrol is Rs102, including Rs80 levy and on diesel it is nearly Rs92.

[farrukh saleem @SaleemFarrukh]

Pakistan’s diesel price rose 16% in just one week.

Pakistan: +16.0%
Afghanistan: +1.4%
India: 0%
Bangladesh: 0%
Sri Lanka: 0%
Nepal: 0%
Same global oil market. Very different domestic outcomes. Why?

[Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor]

🚨🚨Thank you ⁦@CMShehbaz⁩ for daily dose to 250 million Pakistanis🚨🚨
Following the changes, the price of petrol stands at Rs327.12 per litre and that of HSD at Rs375.04. https://t.co/VVVlFAoSXt

[Azaz Syed @AzazSyed]

مہنگائی ،بے روزگاری ، کرپشن جیسے طوفانوں کے دور میں عوام کے لئے ایک اور آزمائش ۔۔۔🚨🚨🚨

ڈیزل کی قیمت میں 7روپے 83پیسے فی لیٹر اضافہ کردیا گیا، ڈیزل کی نئی قیمت 375روپے 4پیسے فی لیٹر مقرر، پٹرول کی قیمت میں 6روپے 39پیسے فی لیٹر اضافہ،نئی قیمت 327روپے 12پیسے فی لیٹر مقرر کر دی گئی۔

پٹرول اور ڈیزل کی نئی قیمتیں 23جولائی کے لیے ہیں۔

[Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor]

🚨🚨MashAllah🚨🚨
The federal cabinet has approved another special allowance for top bureaucracy – the second in four years – and sanctioned Rs1.8 billion budget in the middle of a further extension in austerity measures and a 7% raise for all government employees.
In the same meeting, the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led cabinet approved only a 7% increase in salaries for all government employees, including these possibly couple of hundred bureaucrats who will enjoy two special allowances, and also extended the austerity measures to the current fiscal year 2026-27.
The well-connected bureaucrats' salaries and perks have been on the rise, but the rest of the public sector employees are not compensated in the middle of biting inflation. Without first strengthening the regulator, the people are also exposed to imported inflation and now daily fluctuation in fuel prices – a new phenomenon.
https://t.co/oxCZO3mity