Ali

Mostly cricket & current affairs

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Such a level of stupidity, ignorance, and complete lack of understanding of how the world works, never ceases to astonish me.

Dear fellow Americans, don't elect complete morons again, particularly if they are also narcissistic, lying psychopaths (in addition to being pedophiles, rapists, atrocious business people, and convicted criminals)

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

The system is broken.

You know the system is broken when stocks FALL after the US unexpectedly adds +162,000 jobs in a month, TRIPLING expectations.

Why? Because a strong jobs report means a higher chance of rate hikes.

This is the product 60-straight months of 2%+ inflation.

Markets now "want" a labor market collapse.

[Waqas @worqas]

I can tell you exactly how, in great detail, the events that caused that, and also explain how your father was a part of the conspiracy that eventually made the said travesty possible. There is much your family has to atone for.

[Ali Khan Tareen @aliktareen]

I encourage everyone to read this article by Mansoor Ali Shah today.

How this man wasn’t made chief justice is a travesty and disservice to the country. https://t.co/DMLhYOqz5f

[Jesse Livermore @Jesse_Livermore]

Hard to even process -- a president selling market-moving information to banks and wealthy investors in advance of everyone else, and personally pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars from it. This alone is more worthy of impeachment than 100 Watergate cover-ups.

[UEFA @UEFA]

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National Associations

[Hussain Nadim @HNadim87]

The joke that started with SIFC, $100 billion IT exports, Cryptos, Data Centers, and Uraan Pakistans, have finally settled down with and admission of State Collapse.

Some journey, entirely predictable though.

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

🇵🇸 ❤️💛🇪🇸

[Toni Kroos @ToniKroos]

Football won

[Saqib Bashir @saqibbashir156]

ضلع جہلم پنڈدادنخان میں جلالپور نہر کو آزمائشی بنیادوں پر ایک ہفتے کے لیے کھول دیا گیا ہے اس علاقے کے لئے یہ انقلابی منصوبہ ہے جو بنجر زمینوں کو آباد کرے گا جلال پور نہر منصوبے کی ابتدائی فزیبلٹی اسٹڈی 1992-93 جبکہ عملی کام کا آغاز پچھلے دور حکومت دسمبر 2019 میں ہوا تھا سابق وفاقی وزیر فواد چوہدری جن کا یہ حلقہ ہے انہوں نے اس منصوبے کو شروع کرانے پھر آگے بڑھانے میں بھرپور کردار ادا کیا تھا موجودہ دور حکومت میں بھی یہ منصوبے جاری رہا ہے 2027 تک ہر لحاظ سے مکمل ہو جائے گا اس منصوبے سے پنڈدادنخان اور خوشاب کے 80 کے قریب دیہات مستفید ہوں گے منصوبے کا بنیادی مقصد دریائے جہلم سے پانی لے کر تحصیل پنڈ دادنخان اور خوشاب کی بنجر زمینوں کو سیراب کرنا ہے

[farrukh saleem @SaleemFarrukh]

1. PSO buys the oil.
2. PSO declares the price.
3. No one checks.
4. No one audits.
5. No one verifies.
6. OGRA takes its word for it.
7. PSO makes Rs38 billion.
8. Attock Petroleum makes Rs14 billion.
9. PRL makes Rs10 billion.
10. NRL makes Rs7 billion.
11. Govt makes Rs1.4 trillion.
12. 240 million finance it all.

Who decides what you pay at the pump?

Every minister, adviser and spokesperson will tell you the same thing: Pakistan’s petrol price is based on a rolling Platts/Oilgram average -- an objective international benchmark. Transparent. Scientific. Beyond manipulation. Not true.

Pakistan’s petrol pricing formula has a secret. Ministers won’t mention it. Spokespersons may not know it. And Ogra’s weekly notifications are carefully designed to obscure it. The rolling Platts/Oilgram average -- that objective international benchmark they keep citing -- is not what actually determines what you pay at the pump.

Every minister, adviser and spokesperson will tell you petrol prices in Pakistan are set by an objective international benchmark -- the Platts/Oilgram rolling average. Verifiable. Beyond politics. They are telling you half the story. The other half costs you Rs350 billion a year.

Here is the math: 123 million barrels imported per year. An average of $10 per barrel overpaid. Converted at today’s exchange rate. Rs 350 billion. Every year. Gone. Here is the whole truth: The primary input into Pakistan’s petrol pricing formula is not Platts. Not an independent benchmark. Not a global average. It is a government-owned oil marketing company’s (OMC) own declared import price. The Platts/Oilgram average only kicks in when the OMC’s price is unavailable. That price is almost never unavailable. The reality: The OMC is Pakistan’s largest oil importer. Its declared purchase price is the primary input into the national petrol pricing formula. It is a state-owned company whose profits flow directly to the government that sets the petroleum levy. It just posted a 149 per cent jump in profits.

Cold truth: The referee is also the player. The player is also the scorekeeper. And the scorekeeper works for a government that collected Rs 2.725 trillion in the petroleum levy in just two years -- more than the combined value of both IMF loan programmes. Next year’s target: Rs 1.727 trillion. The year after: Rs 1.915 trillion. By 2031: Rs 2.637 trillion.

Red alert: This is not a pricing formula. It is an extraction machine. And the OMC, whose declared purchase price feeds that formula, posted a profit of Rs38 billion up from Rs15 billion last year.

Think about what this means. The OMC buys the oil. It declares what it paid. That declared price becomes your pump price. Its profits then flow to the government that sets the levy on top of that price. There is no independent check at any stage. No outside auditor. No verification of its declared import cost.

Look closer: The formula is not broken. It is working exactly as designed -- for the oil companies, for the government. For everyone except the 240 million who pay for https://t.co/tzp6VoHTKQ alert: The cost of this arrangement: Rs350 billion a year -- Rs10,000 out of every Pakistani family’s pocket, every year, for a formula that was never what they said it was.

Here is the current arrangement. The OMC buys the oil. It declares the price. No one checks. No one audits. No one verifies. Ogra takes its word for it. The pump price follows. The oil companies pocket the difference -- PSO Rs38 billion, Attock Petroleum Rs14 billion, PRL Rs10 billion and NRL Rs7 billion. And every minister, adviser and spokesperson goes on television and says: the price is based on a transparent international formula.
https://t.co/UYrkyx5Ple

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

In the latest Trump grift, Truth Social will now sell faster access to Trump’s market-moving posts to institutional investors willing to pay for it. This is yet another example of Trump's unprecedented exploitation of the presidency for personal financial gain.

[fan @NoodleHairCR7]

Spain's route to Final: Portugal, Belgium, France

Argentina's route: Cape Verde, Egypt, Switzerland

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[Yusef @Fede8Y]

صورة المونديال, اكبر فضيحة في التاريخ

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Incredible Egyptian goal is disallowed because of a foul far away, then same situation a few minutes later and goal for Argentina not disallowed! No VAR, nothing? FIFA again looks like a corrupt joke, playing favorites for stars.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The biggest mistake was ‘importing’ this racist South African.

[farrukh saleem @SaleemFarrukh]

Feb 1 → Present→ petrol prices up 56% in Pakistan, unchanged in India:
1. New Delhi: ₹94.72 → ₹94.72
2. Bangladesh: ~BDT130 → unchanged
3. Pakistan: Rs257 → Rs399.86 (+56%)
4. Same oil shock
5. Different policy
https://t.co/9hywB37JST

[Muhammadasif @Muhamma12762724]

اگر CSS کرنے والے اتنے قابل ہیں تو پاکستان کے ادارے تباہ حال کیوں ہے؟ اور TCS میں ایک بھی CSS آفیسر کام نہیں کرتا لیکن TCS پاکستان پوسٹ سے زیادہ منافع میں کیوں ہے؟
آپ ریلوے کا حال دیکھ لیں؟
آپ پولیس کا حال دیکھ لیں؟
آپ پاکستان کے تمام بڑے کاروباری اور منافع بخش ادارے دیکھلیں وہاں کوئی CSS افسر نہیں ہے تمام کامیاب اور منافع بخش اداروں میں آپ کو پروفیشنل لوگ ملیں گے۔
اینگرو گروپ
عارف حبیب گروپ
ڈی جی خان سیمنٹ سمیت تمام کامیاب ادارے پروفیشنل لوگ چلا رہے ہیں ۔
دنیا میں پروفیشنل لوگوں انجینئرز، ڈاکٹرز اور سائنسدانوں اور اساتذہ کی عزت ہے ایسےپروفیشنلز جو اپنے ممالک کو آسمان تک لیے گئے اور بدقسمتی میں ہمارے ملک میں الٹی گنگا بہہ رہی ہے ایک پروفیشنل ڈاکٹر اور انجنیئر کے اوپر ڈپٹی کمشنر روعب جماتا ہے
جس کی قابلیت صرف انگریزی کا امتحان پاس کرنا ہے ۔اگر انگریزی کو سی ایس ایس سے نکالا جائے تو پاس کرنے والے ہزاروں ہونگےعرب ممالک میں سی ایس ایس جیسا امتحان نہیں ہوتا وہاں کے مضبوط اداروں کی کارکردگی آپ کے سامنے ہے
جاپان اور تائیوان کے پاس کوئی قدرتی وسائل نہیں لیکن وہ ٹیکنالوجی میں دنیا سے آگے ہیں
پاکستان کو ترقی کے لئے سرکاری افسر شاہی نہیں بلکہ ڈاکٹرز ۔سائنسدانوں اور انجینئرز ضرورت ہے

[Quatrina @QuatrinaHosain]

Iran is the ONLY country that had the guts to tell the US and Israel to get lost. Iran is the ONLY country to stand up for Gaza and Lebanon. So I don't care what sect they are. I'd side with ANY country that had done the same. Why is this so hard for haters here to understand?

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

TRUMP: “I’m canceling peace talks in Pakistan with the Iranians because it’s a waste of time.”

Bro, Iran canceled all further talks with you like a week ago. WTF are you talking about?