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You can't handle

[Stijn Noorman @stijnnoorman]

Smart people are willing to fail to get smarter.

[Malvin @ManOfFocus_]

Stay around ambitious men. They'll never mock you for trying.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know.

[Stijn Noorman @stijnnoorman]

A core sign of low intelligence is getting offended easily.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The first rule of learning is to admit you don’t know. The second rule is to never stop asking why.

[Asad Umar @Asad_Umar]

BA in economics SOAS. Bar at Law, Lincoln's inn. Hammad was one of the brightest members of PTI cabinet. What message is this picture sending to the educated youth? Don't dare to enter public service or you will be made an example? You are robbing dreams & hopes of Youth!

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Grazie, Primo Ministro @CMShehbaz, per queste parole e per aver voluto sottolineare il valore del rapporto tra Italia e Pakistan.
In questi anni abbiamo rafforzato una collaborazione che abbraccia diversi ambiti: dagli scambi economici alla cooperazione allo sviluppo sino ai rapporti tra i nostri popoli. Sono convinta che esistano ancora margini per far crescere questo legame e trasformarlo in nuove opportunità per le nostre Nazioni 🇮🇹🇵🇰

[عدنان @ArmedWithWisdom]

Things changing rapidly

[Bilawal Bhutto Zardari @BBhuttoZardari]

Welcome to Larkano, the City of Martyrs, CM KP. Best wishes for the remainder of your tour across Sindh.

We must ultimately return to a politics of tolerance, respect and coexistence, the foundation of any democracy.

[محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf @mb_ghalibaf]

“Massive attack coming… wait, never mind, they want to negotiate.”
That’s theater diplomacy on loop.

Using bullying + broken promises + fake news as leverage is a failed strategy.

Acknowledge the facts and fulfill your commitments. We don’t need more theater.

[sara @sara_pirzadaa]

surah al baqarah is so soo powerful. the peace it brings into life is unmatched

[Amnesty International South Asia, Regional Office @amnestysasia]

PAKISTAN: Ahead of the third anniversary of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ongoing detention, Isabelle Lassee, Amnesty International’s Acting Regional Director for South Asia, said:

“For three years, Pakistan’s authorities have systematically denied Imran Khan the right to a fair trial, subjected him to prolonged solitary confinement, and limited his access to medical care and visitation rights. He has not been allowed to meet his family for more than eight months and his vision has reportedly deteriorated significantly. Both he and his wife, Bushra Bibi Khan, have now been denied regular access to legal counsel since December 2025."

Read more: https://t.co/hc6eKnIITh

[Miftah Ismail @MiftahIsmail]

In the year 2000, Pakistan’s per capita GDP, at purchasing power parity, was $2880, higher than India’s at $2010 and Bangladesh at $1620. We were 43% richer than an average Indian and 77% richer than an average Bangladeshi. Today we are at $6480, Bangladesh at $9180 and India at $12,560. So an Indian is 94% is richer than us and an average Bangladeshi is 42% richer than us. This is the most important story of our national governance system over the last 26 years.

In the last 4 years we have taken debt of Rs 40,000 billion. In the first 75 years we took debt of Rs 45,000 bn. Our tax revenues have doubled over the last four years and yet people today are poorer than in 2014/15 and 2018/19. 29% Pakistanis are poor (with monthly resources of less than Rs 8485). We eat less of all commodities, including atta and rice, meaning Pakistanis are going hungry. Of course we spend over Rs 400 crore to run the PM house and the President house.

Over this period we have seen Gen Musharraf, President Zardari, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan and Mian Shehbaz Sharif at the helm, along with a few caretakers. We have seen military, civilian and hybrid governments. What we have not seen is progress. None.

Education: 39% or over 2 crore 60 lakh kids are out of school. And a majority of kids in school cannot read, write or do arithmetic at their class level. Our education system is failing our kids and we are just spectators at this dismal state of affairs. Is there anyway a nation can develop without its kids being educated? Also Sindh govt just released billions in media ads.

Health: 7500 kids have been infected in Pakistan with HIV (that causes AIDS). Mostly due to used needles and unscreened blood. Pakistan has the second highest neonatal mortality rate in the world, worse than South Sudan, Eritrea and Chad. 40% of our children are stunted. 42% of our women have iron deficiency. 1 in 5 people in the world with Hepatitis is a Pakistani. Also Punjab govt recently bought a Rs 1100 crore plane and 4 Mercedes cars for over Rs 100 crore.

Our provinces are under civilian control since 2008. The NFC making them flush with cash came in 2009. The 18th amendment giving them new authorities came in 2010. But there isn’t a Provincial Finance Award in a single province. No political party (PTI, PPP or Noon) has established empowered local government. They won’t let go of power and cash.

Our system of governance has failed and failed completely. Awaam Pakistan party has been saying it from the day the party started.

Where do we go from here.
Empowered, federally financed and constitutionally protected LGs. Failing which smaller provinces. But now. We cannot afford to wait forever.

Direct elections to all executive offices in local governments and provinces. Essential for breaking the hold of fossilised political parties.

Reform of NFC. School vouchers for all poor kids. Forming of school boards with hiring and firing powers all in govt schools composing of parents and officials. Badly run govt hospitals to be transferred to trusts and govt to keep funding at current levels. Ending of lifetime employment for bureaucrats. You work, you stay. Or go home. No ghost workers or teachers.

Reduce the size of government. Move to economically efficient way of pricing power and gas so they become cheaper.

But parties that are part of the problem and beneficiaries of the system will not want to change. So they need to be removed from the govt. They weren’t fairly elected anyway.

National reconciliation.

Continuous and major reforms.

Otherwise our relative decline will continue. Hunger and illiteracy will become more widespread.

[Nadeem Haque @nadeemhaque]

More new provinces will mainly benefit political dynasties:
• More family members become Ministers
• The rest secure Grade 22 posts, Provincial Secretary & Chief Secretary
• Extra court judges
• More downtown government offices & official mansions in downtowns of provincial capitals
• More cars, more protocol, more status
The only real problem? Roads permanently clogged. Current VIPs multiplied by 15 new provinces × judges + cabinet members + chief secretaries. Prepare for total road closures every time protocol passes.

We’ll need far higher taxes just to feed this growing appetite.

And the bigger truth: this will save the outmoded colonial system from real reform.

More provinces = postponing genuine local government and decentralisation for another 2–3 decades.

Surprisingly, people keep debating the number of provinces… instead of asking why we still refuse to fix the actual structure and genuine city based local government which is the need the hour!

[Maleeha Lodhi @LodhiMaleeha]

When you cant run the country, the 'system' is at fault . How disingenuous can you get ? If the system "collapsed" on your watch, step aside, let go

[Mazhar Abbas @MazharAbbasGEO]

Benefeciaries of this 'Nizam' are saying this 'system' is a rottan. Wow.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

Seizing another nation's assets to pay for unrelated future claims is an incendiary precedent.

Those who celebrate or profit from such funds should remember: once governments normalize confiscation, no one's assets are safe. Ensuing chaos will not be pretty or peaceful.

[عدنان @ArmedWithWisdom]

Saving his ass from Iran.

[عدنان @ArmedWithWisdom]

@musing_monica Its my routine

[عدنان @ArmedWithWisdom]

ye barkhaa barsate din tu bin piritam be-kaar gaye

[عدنان @ArmedWithWisdom]

@Zoha_xtra So funny stuff