Hamza Aamir

Trying to spread awareness one step at a time.

[Miftah Ismail @MiftahIsmail]

“If incomes are declining, poverty and unemployment are increasing and taxes and inflation are squeezing the middle class, is it any wonder people aren’t buying this government’s narrative?
If, over the last three years, the government had delivered even 4.0 per cent real income growth, kept inflation and unemployment under control, and made electricity and gas prices regionally competitive, people would have been satisfied. The government would have earned retrospective legitimacy.”

My column in The News today

https://t.co/Vuf1yMNWXa

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

THIS IS THE BEST INTERVIEW YOU WILL EVER LISTEN TO😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Asad Nasir @asadnasir2000]

🚨 Ali Dar is the source of morality, the morality is very high in this family.

- Kausar Kazmi

If they have such high morality, then make them Imam of Kaaba.

- Nadeem Qureshi

[Indian @MeIndian03]

😭😭😭

[Nurettin Akçay @akcay_nurettinn]

Apple yıllardır Çin’de olmasına rağmen tek bir sızıntı olmamıştı. Ama sözde riskleri dağıtmak için bir kaç yıldır Hindistan’da operasyonlarını yürütüyordular.

Ne mi oldu? Hintliler IPhone 18’e ait tüm verileri sızdırmışlar. Ama öyle ufak bir sızıntı gibi düşünmeyin. Bildiğiniz her şeyi sızdırmışlar. Tata gruptan gerçekleşen sızıntıda, iPhone 18 Pro’nun 630 GB’lık çekirdek verisini (tedarikçi isimleri, taban fiyatlar, tam mühendislik çizimleri dahil) direkt dark web’e yüklemişler.

Eskiden en fazla Foxconn’da işçiler birkaç bulanık kasa fotoğrafı paylaşırdı. Hintliler resmen iPhone 18’in DNA’sını paylaşmışlar. Şaka gibi ama 200 bin dosya paylaşılmış.

Öyle büyük bir sızıntı ki bu bilgilerle Huawei’nin bile iPhone 18’i bir kaç güne piyasaya sürebileceği esprileri dahi yapılıyor.

Apple de-risk istiyordu fakat Hindistan riskin ta kendisini olmuş.

[Hamza Aamir @Amurkool]

Unbelievable

[Muzamil @muzamil_45]

اپنے ملک پاکستان ��ی قدر کرو ملک سے بڑھ کر کچھ نہیں ھوتا پاکستان جیسی آزادی کہیں نہیں
میں بوسنیا گیا تو وہاں بازار میں پاکستان آرمی کا اسٹیچو لگا ھوا تھا میں نے اُن لو��وں سے پوچھا یہ کیا ھے تو اُنہوں نے بتایا یہاں پاکستان آرمی کی یونٹ آئی تھی خوارک کی قلت تھی تو اُنہوں نے کم راشن استعمال کیا اور باقی کا راشن یہاں کے لوگوں کو دے دیا اُنکی یاد اور عزت میں یہ لگایا گیا ھے. سابق آئی جی عامر ذوالفقار خان

[Hamza Aamir @Amurkool]

@AhmadJalal_1 @LifeAtLUMS East India Co Type MNC sir - happy to support the country by paying 35% annual tax with a 10% surcharge - still striving hard here and paying back to my alumni network and community. Maybe you should be less negative and focus on the positives.

[Hamza Aamir @Amurkool]

Hahahahahhaa

[A @aeroburner1]

Your sweaty nuts and butthole are in the same water as these mangoes that you’re eating. I know the contact part is the peel that’ll come off but no thanks

[farrukh saleem @SaleemFarrukh]

Rs300 billion tax loss

Pakistan consumes about 80 billion cigarette sticks a year. Of the 80 billion, an estimated 43.5 billion sticks are outside the full tax net. That’s 54 per cent of total consumption. That is not a market failure. That is enforcement failure. That is a failure of fiscal governance. That is a parallel economy in plain sight. That is Rs300 billion going up in smoke every year.
Consider this: The government now wants to bring millions of small retailers into the tax net. The expected collection is around Rs50 billion a year. No objection: every sector must pay. To collect Rs50 billion, the state would need roughly 2.5 million retailers paying Rs20,000 each.
Here’s the paradox: The illegal cigarette market is costing Pakistan nearly Rs300 billion a year, six times the expected collection from the retailer scheme. The government is chasing the shop counter while losing the warehouse.
Italy dismantled illicit domestic manufacturing by targeting the source – licensing every machine, production line and warehouse, not just the finished packet. Pakistan can capture Rs300 billion the same way: track the factory, and the fraud has nowhere to hide.
The UK built a dedicated tobacco enforcement unit with a separate budget, mandate and accountability. Pakistan can capture Rs300 billion by building a permanent anti-illicit tobacco cell within FBR, Customs, FIA and provincial police – with targets, published data and prosecutions.
Spain reduced cigarette smuggling sharply by interrupting the supply chain: intelligence-led customs action. Pakistan can capture Rs300 billion by choking supply routes rather than raiding small retailers after the damage is done.
Cold truth: Pakistan’s illegal cigarette problem is not only a tax problem; it is an enforcement problem. It is a border problem. It is a production-control problem. It is also a governance problem.
Red alert: A cigarette without duty is not just cheap tobacco; it is stolen revenue.
Look closer: The illegal cigarette is not just a cheap packet. It is unpaid FED. Unpaid sales tax. Unpaid income tax. Unpaid documentation. It is a parallel economy in a packet.
Consider this: Pakistan borrows to pay interest. Pakistan taxes salaried workers at source. Pakistan raises electricity tariffs. Pakistan increases petroleum levy. Pakistan negotiates with the IMF. Pakistan asks compliant businesses to pay more.
Now imagine: Billions of cigarette sticks move through the economy without paying duty.
Rs300 billion is not a leakage. Rs300 billion is a tax heist. Rs300 billion is not an abstract number. It is schools not built. Clinics not opened. Roads not repaired. Water schemes not completed. It is development spending lost to tax evasion. It is revenue stolen from a state already drowning in debt.
Rs300 billion is not leakage. Rs300 billion is a tax heist. Rs300 billion is not an abstract number. At Rs100 million per school, it could build 3,000 schools. At Rs150 million per clinic, it could build 2,000 clinics. At Rs25 million per kilometre, it could build 12,000 kilometres of roads. At Rs250 million per water and sanitation scheme, it could finance 1,200 schemes. This is development spending lost to tax evasion. This is revenue stolen from a government already drowning in debt.
Remember: A government that cannot tax a cigarette cannot finance a school.

[Asad Nasir @asadnasir2000]

🚨 Name one province after Nawaz, name one after Shahbaz, name one after Maryam Safdar, name one after Hamza, and name the country after Sharifistan. Rolla e Makayen.

- Saima Kanwal.

[Hamza Aamir @Amurkool]

@SaleemFarrukh Farrukh sahb thank you for raising this important issue. The FBR however doesn't want to do much because of their reliance on collection through WHT, Adv. Tax etc. Let's keep the pressure on!

[farrukh saleem @SaleemFarrukh]

1. Pakistan consumes about 80 billion cigarette sticks a year
2. An estimated 43.5 billion sticks are outside the tax net
3. That’s 54% of total consumption
4. That is not a market failure
5. That is enforcement failure
6. That is a failure of fiscal governance
7. That is a parallel economy in plain sight.
8. That is Rs300 billion going up in smoke every year

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[Barça Worldwide @BarcaWorldwide]

SPEED: "Portugal will win the World Cup."

Zlatan: "That's enough free speech for today."

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[Ch Fawad Hussain @fawadchaudhry]

Improve your business model instead of begging and yelling for Govt advertisement 365 days an year.. #PkMedia

[Salman Masood @salmanmasood]

Nothing says a government is feeling the heat quite like officials lashing out at journalists and ministers reaching for old excuses. Growing public dissatisfaction deserves reflection, not resentment or arrogant shrugs. Governments that stop listening discover reality the hard way.

[Hassan S Hakeem @hshakeem65]

@SanaullahDawn https://t.co/WyJIm5wZIu

[Shahbaz Rana @81ShahbazRana]

Just four days before the budget, the government has imposed additional Rs24.74 per litre levy on petrol. Now new levy rate on petrol is Rs116 per litre.
It offered Rs4 per litre olive branch to petrol consumers to make them happy. Actual reduction in petrol price in international market was Rs26.60 per litre.
As against new price of Rs378, the petrol price should have been Rs353 per liter.
As per commitment with IMF to charge Rs80 levy, petrol price should have been Rs342 per litre.

[Kingsley W @SmokelessWord]

We've hosted former PMs. But a sitting MP? None. Until now.

This week, @jackmrankin MP joins the show - calling the generational smoking ban unworkable, challenging his own party's record, and warning that the UK state is stuck in the mud.

Catch the trailer below👇

[Wajahat Sami @Wajahat_PTI_]

بلوچستان کی گیس فوجی فاؤنڈیشن کو پانی سے بھی سستی دی جا رہی ہے پیداواری لاگت کے محض 13 فیصد پر۔
یہ رعایت نہیں، کھلی معاشی ناانصافی ہے ماہر معاشیات قیصر بنگالی