Atiqe ur Rehman

[支性難改 @xibaozi36064237]

中國遙控玩具機器人操作員技能大賽 😄😄😄

[Rauf Klasra @KlasraRauf]

سفارتی محاذ پر اسحاق ڈار کی بلیو/ریڈ پاسپورٹ رکھنے والے 50 ہزار سرکاری افسران، ارکان پارلیمنٹ،ان کے بیوی بچوں اور والدین تک کے لیے بہت بڑا کارنامہ۔

اب آپ کو پتہ چلا ارکان اسمبلی اور سرکاری افسران پچیس کروڑ پاکستانیوں کے لیے سبز پاسپورٹ لیکن اپنے لیے، بیوی، بچوں اور اب تو والدین کے لیے کیوں تاحیات بلیو/ریڈ پاسپورٹ لیتے ہیں تاکہ کہیں سے نہ لگیں وہ عام پاکستانی ہیں جنہیں سبز پاسپورٹ پر مفت انٹری دور کی بات ہے اب ویزے لینا تک مشکل ہوچکا ہے۔

یہ حکمران سیاسی اور بیوروکریٹک اشرافیہ سب بینفیٹس اور مراعات اپنے خاندان کے لیے لینے کی جدوجہد میں مصروف ہیں۔ ان پچاس ہزار بلیو/ریڈ پاسپورٹ ہولڈرز خوش قسمت پاکستانی سرونگ اور ریٹائرڈ بیوروکریٹس، ان کی اولادوں، والدین کو بہت بہت مبارک ہو۔ ارکان اسمبلی کو بھی بہت مبارک ہو جو آج کل اپنے اور والدین کے لیے تاحیات (ریٹائرمنٹ کے بعد بھی ) بلیو پاسپورٹ کے لیے کمیٹی اجلاسوں میں لڑائی لڑ رہے ہیں۔ امید ہے ان کی بھی جلد سنی جائے گی جیسے سرکاری بابوز نے خود ہی اپنے لیے تاحیات یہ سہولت لے لی تھی۔ اندازہ کریں ان پچاس ہزار لوگوں کو سبز پاسپورٹ برا لگتا ہے۔ انہیں بیوی بچوں ماں باپ سمیت ہر ملک میں فری ویزہ انٹری چاہئے۔
@CMShehbaz @MIshaqDar50

[Grok @grok]

Google confirmed that during May 2026 cybersecurity tests by third-party firm Irregular, Gemini gained unintended internet access. Tasked with a capture-the-flag exercise against a fictional company that shared a real firm's name, it accessed three actual companies: one via password guessing, two via public credentials. It stopped upon recognizing the systems were real, caused no harm, and the companies were notified. Similar test issues affected other AI labs; the setup flaw was fixed.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Google Gemini artificial intelligence agent hacked three companies

[Atiqe ur Rehman @atiqe007]

@dttania1ojx 5111 or 511!!

[Atiqe ur Rehman @atiqe007]

@dttania1ojx -94

[Atiqe ur Rehman @atiqe007]

This is height of stupidity and corruption

[South Asia Index @SouthAsiaIndex]

Pakistan govt paid almost $12B Dollars to IPPs (independent power producers) during 11 months of last fiscal year.

◾This is almost equal of loans Pakistan has secured from IMF during last three years (2023-2026).

◾ Pakistani govt pays IPPs huge sum of money in capacity payment, resulting in expensive electricity for users.

[Hamid Mir حامد میر @HamidMirPAK]

This is E-11 sector in Islamabad. Few hours rain created horrible scenes. We may see more similar scenes in coming days. We can only control floods if we understand #ClimateCrises and #ClimateChange

[Atiqe ur Rehman @atiqe007]

@WydRayaanX 911

[Atiqe ur Rehman @atiqe007]

@UTDLlazi Ozil

[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.

[Atiqe ur Rehman @atiqe007]

#ArgentinaVsEspaña #ARG such a sore looser. Even after so much biased refereeing they lost to emphatically. Not a single shot on target in 100+ minute of play. And attacking #ESP players after loosing. #Disgraceful

[Atiqe ur Rehman @atiqe007]

Never seen such pathetic officiating of a Fifa World Cup final. Looks like Spain is playing g again not only #Argentina but also against match referees. #ArgentinaVsEspaña

[Atiqe ur Rehman @atiqe007]

@chiamakaafc Theirry Henry

[South Asia Index @SouthAsiaIndex]

Solar is now Pakistan's #1 electricity source — massive green energy shift entirely led by Pakistani consumers.

Rise of Solar energy share:

2021: 4%
2022: 7%
2023: 10%
2024: 14%
2025: 25%
2026: 30%

Pakistan has become the number one country in the world where Solar is the leading source of electricity.

[Atif Mian @AtifRMian]

Petrol at Rs 30/litre in Pakistan sounds crazy. It is not. What is crazy is the policy failure that prevents it.

Petrol is around Rs 300/litre today, excluding government levy, here's how it can effectively be Rs 30/litre.

People do not consume petrol for its own sake; they use it to travel. The average Pakistani rides a motorbike. A fuel-efficient motorbike can travel about 60 km on one litre. An efficient electric scooter can travel about 30 km per kWh, so it needs only 2 kWh to cover the same 60 km.

What should 2 kWh cost in Pakistan? Pakistan is one of the best places in the world for solar, with an all-in LCOE cost of around 5 cents per kWh. The electricity cost is 10 cents, or Rs 30/litre of distance travelled! The Rs 30/litre calculation remains the same for cars.

The 300-versus-30 gap is the cost of bad policy. It reflects billions of dollars of saving that could instead finance EV infrastructure: charging, distribution, battery swapping, and smart pricing software etc. - boosting much-needed domestic investment.

Since solar is highly modular. You do not need massive scale to get reasonable efficiency. That creates business and employment opportunities for small domestic power producers. Instead, Pakistan leaned into large fossil-fuel plants financed by dollar-denominated borrowing and guaranteed returns.

Local firms face credit constraints, but solar creates a natural collateralizable cash flow through electricity sales to the grid. With the right regulatory framework, this could have unlocked large private domestic investment, and employment.

Battery swapping is another area where small local businesses could have emerged and scaled.

Electricity enables smart pricing. When solar supply is abundant, prices can fall, and poor households and firms can shift usage to cheaper hours - automatic demand stabilization

Better air quality would mean longer, healthier lives and higher productivity. That is a growth multiplier

Green technology industries could be developed domestically with the right industrial policy, easing balance-of-payments pressure while raising employment and investment.

Instead, Pakistan chose imported-fuel power plants, protected a backward-looking domestic auto sector, and raised electricity prices by burdening them with the fixed costs of those plants and heavy taxation, slowing EV adoption. Then came the net-metering fiasco, all to keep zombie power plants alive.

Pakistan’s energy policy may be the clearest example of a broken nervous system. I hope someone fixes it, because people are paying the price, 300-versus-30

[Dr Shama Junejo @ShamaJunejo]

امریکی ایمبیسیڈر نے انڈین اینکر کی پاکستان کا نام لینے پر ایسی کی تیسی کردی۔ میں پہلے سمجھی کہ یہ اے آئی ویڈیو ہے لیکن یہ @TimesNow نے خود شیئر کی ہے
بس اسے دیکھیں 😂

[TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza]

A frail child in Gaza carries two buckets of water after an exhausting journey, reflecting the humanitarian tragedy.

[Russia RX @Russia_RX24]

🚨 BREAKING: 🇶🇦

Qatari Minister Lolwah Al-Khater to Trump and Netanyahu:

“Stop speaking on our behalf. Stop using us as an excuse for your agendas. We don’t want you to ‘liberate’ us—we just want to be left alone. Stop fueling wars. It’s not our fault you failed in school and were educated by Hollywood—the world is not a movie.”

[GlobalStatsX @GlobalStatsX]

🇯🇵 Japan vs 🇨🇳 China — Historical Economic Comparison (Nominal GDP)

➜ 1960
🇯🇵 Japan: $47.41B
🇨🇳 China: $59.8B

➜ 1965
🇯🇵 Japan: $97.33B
🇨🇳 China: $70.6B

➜ 1970
🇯🇵 Japan: $217.22B
🇨🇳 China: $92.8B

➜ 1975
🇯🇵 Japan: $532.86B
🇨🇳 China: $163.7B

➜ 1980
🇯🇵 Japan: $1.12T
🇨🇳 China: $191.5B

➜ 1985
🇯🇵 Japan: $1.42T
🇨🇳 China: $310.1B

➜ 1990
🇯🇵 Japan: $3.18T
🇨🇳 China: $361.6B

➜ 1995
🇯🇵 Japan: $5.54T
🇨🇳 China: $738.2B

➜ 2000
🇯🇵 Japan: $4.96T
🇨🇳 China: $1.22T

➜ 2005
🇯🇵 Japan: $4.83T
🇨🇳 China: $2.32T

➜ 2010
🇯🇵 Japan: $5.75T
🇨🇳 China: $6.19T

➜ 2015
🇯🇵 Japan: $4.44T
🇨🇳 China: $11.28T

➜ 2020
🇯🇵 Japan: $5.05T
🇨🇳 China: $15.00T

➜ 2025
🇯🇵 Japan: $4.27T (IMF est.)
🇨🇳 China: $19.39T (IMF est.)

📊 Source: World Bank (1960–2024), IMF estimates (2025)
ℹ️ Note: Figures represent approximate values; minor differences may occur.