Faiz Z 🇵🇰

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[Faiz Z 🇵🇰 @faizwyd]

I wonder how the tax regime of both countries compares

[Rana Atif @Rana_Atif101]

Ethiopia attracted $4 billion in foreign direct investment in 2025 and Pakistan FDI is at $1.4 billion. In 1990s Ethiopia’s FDI used to be just $10 million annually.

[Faiz Z 🇵🇰 @faizwyd]

@MIshaqDar50 What about Pakistani sailors held hostage by pirates for almost two months?

[Tariq | Goldsand @thesubmitter_]

Here’s an underrated prophecy from 1500 years ago:

In 1311, a Christian merely arguing that paying usury was okay was a heresy (acc to Council of Vienna).

In 2026, the US alone pays $1T of usury every year.

The Prophet ﷺ spoke the truth when he said "A time will surely come in which none will remain but that he consumes usury. If he does not consume it, he will be afflicted by its dust."

[Paklarper | AP-AXE @paklarp]

So true

[Deen @Deenresponds]

🚨‼️A Monumental Modern Discovery: This inscription is remarkable because it independently attests the title “Dhū al-Janāḥayn” for Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib, the same title found in Sahih al-Bukhari 3709.

The inscription reflects contemporary usage by a freed slave named Walid who was freed by Jaafars son.

This suggests that this honorific title was genuinely known among early Muslims. It is a small but tangible example of archaeological evidence aligning with and corroborating details preserved in the hadith tradition and it won’t be the last of its kind.

The inscription translates as follows:

“I am al-Walīd, the freedman of ʿAbdullāh ibn Jaʿfar, son of Jaʿfar the Two-Winged. May my Lord forgive me and have mercy on me.”

[Faiz Z 🇵🇰 @faizwyd]

@Nabeel1124 https://t.co/HQC4ZBQGsJ
You may find this interesting

[Faiz Z 🇵🇰 @faizwyd]

@omar_quraishi Thank you taxpayers.

[Faiz Z 🇵🇰 @faizwyd]

@googleearth Can you bring it to mobile next

[ahmet alp balkan @ahmetb]

we are here now

[◟🇵🇰 𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚋 . ⁾⁾ @anoob_pk]

tell me you know nothing about the history of Urdu and it's inescapable importance in the pakistan movement without telling me you know nothing

[Nakşidil @tropiicalhoe]

i was born in exactly the right era. this is peak entertainment charlie chaplin could not have topped

[Faris 🇺🇦🇵🇰🇵🇸 @Sooba_Hazara_]

To ensure survival, Pakistan will have to commit major war crimes.

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

American credibility has deteriorated to the point where the president can announce a diplomatic agreement and the near-universal reaction is "let's wait for confirmation from Tasnim"

[کھوسہ @masatmithizaat]

Lol apples and oranges. Sindh was the most educated province of Pakistan so it had a headstart. It then received a huge wave of educated Muhajirs in 1947, further pushing it ahead. KP has relentlessly closed that gap despite Sindh having the highest per-capita budget in Pakistan.

[Faiz Z 🇵🇰 @faizwyd]

@iamlaeeqahmad CGT on transactions already executed, right?

[Paklarper | AP-AXE @paklarp]

Islamabad is so clean until you look at the backside of any building

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is an absolutely major story and almost no Western media covered it: India's water minister CR Patil said on Tuesday that "it is certain, not a single drop of water will go (to Pakistan) in the coming years."

Patil said that India is "actively working on it" after "directives" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

As a reminder, Pakistan's dependence on water from India is close to total: the country is essentially built around the Indus river system, all of whose rivers flow through India before entering Pakistan.

The Indus system irrigates 80% of Pakistan's farmland, generates a third of its electricity, supplies its major cities with drinking water, and sustains the livelihoods of some 240 million people.

So, essentially, no water from India = annihilation of Pakistan as a state.

Pretty damn consequential, all the more given we're talking about 2 nuclear powers here. And all the more because, understandably, Pakistan's formal position is that water diversion would constitute "an act of war" (https://t.co/WLoDpGzc2W).

Unfortunately, Patil's statement isn't just talk: India already set up the legal framework to make this possible. Last year, they unilaterally suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, despite the treaty containing no withdrawal clause.

It used to be the one piece of India-Pakistan relations that worked, and had survived multiple wars and over six decades of hostility. Now India is saying officially that it will "never be restored" (https://t.co/2SnUNevFbX).

The one mitigating factor here is physics: you don't just "turn off" a major Himalayan river system. Diverting rivers of this magnitude means building massive storage and canal infrastructure in Himalayan terrain: projects measured in years.

But India IS ACTUALLY BUILDING that infrastructure: for instance it just approved in May the building of the so-called "Chenab–Beas Link Tunnel," an 8.7km ₹2,352 crore (~$280M) tunnel designed to divert water from the Chenab basin into India's Beas river system. The Chenab is one of the main tributaries of the Indus - and one of the three "western rivers" (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) allocated to Pakistan under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty.

Which means that, unfortunately, Patil's "not a single drop of water in the coming years" looks like a roadmap: the infrastructure to strangle Pakistan's water supply is being approved and tendered in plain sight.

This is also a story about selective media coverage and double standards: I'm willing to bet that 99% of people in the West have never heard of any of this.

Now make this thought experiment: imagine China announced it was building infrastructure to cut off every drop of water flowing to India and its ministers proclaimed on television that "not a single drop" would cross the border. It would be wall-to-wall coverage, sanctions packages, and a thousand op-eds about Beijing "weaponizing water."

Heck we don't need to imagine because the simple fact of China merely building a hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo (the upstream Brahmaputra) generated exactly the wall-to-wall alarm I'm describing, even though China threatened nothing and even though Indian officials said the threat is a "myth" given the fact that the river gathers most of its volume inside India from monsoon rains (https://t.co/GBgBybBPoE). Malign intent was still presumed from the act of construction, because it's China.

In India's case, the intent couldn't possibly be clearer: it's proclaimed by ministers on the record, and backed by India's actions. But because they're a courted Western partner, what they're doing - arguably the most extreme form of economic warfare imaginable, directed at a nuclear state - largely gets silence.

Src for screenshot: https://t.co/qav4muNkij

[Faiz Z 🇵🇰 @faizwyd]

@asabbas98 Flights without internet are my favourite place to catch up on reading.

[faraz @faraz_lhr]

In Pakistan, where power was held by generals and landed elites, the literacy statistics are similar to Afghanistan which is much poorer with a dominant tribal-mullah culture. Khakis and waderas can be as lethal as Taliban https://t.co/8nRJKNO370