Hammad A.

🇵🇰 خٌدا کَرے میری ارضِ پاک پہ اٌترے. وہ فصّلِ گٌل جِسے اندیشہِ زوال نہ ہو 🇵🇰

[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

[Wahaj Siraj @WahajSiraj1]

عوام پر پٹرول بم ہی بم، ٹیکسوں کی بوچھاڑ اوراِن پیسوں سے حکومتی عیاشیاں عروج پر۔

عالمی مارکیٹ میں آئل کی قیمت 35% بڑھتی ہے اور پاکستان میں 70% کیونکہ حکومت کے پاس عیاشیوں کے لئے پیسے کم پڑ گئے ہیں۔

آج صبح اسلام آباد میں 10 لگثری کاروں اور محافظوں پر یہ مشتمل VIP قافلہ سرخ ٹریفک سگنلز توڑتے ہوئے اور دوسری گاڑیوں کو ادھر اُدھر کرتے ہوئے پوری رعونت سے رواں دواں تھا۔

ظلم کے اس نظام کو ختم کرو!

[خان @khantainer]

This is exactly what I was talking about.

[Zia Chishti @Zia_Chishti_71]

For 25 years, I have been a technology entrepreneur. From my base in Pakistan, I have built three multi-billion-dollar companies, employed over 10,000, and brought over $500 million in investments and remittances to the country. Yet, I am struggling to get justice.

[Hammad A. @hammadali2]

@Zia_Chishti_71 @jameelaq
Who will invest with such state of affairs?

[Hammad A. @hammadali2]

DHA-4 and Bahria Phase 8 bridge

#Rawalpindirain

[Mona Alam @MonaAlamm]

Sorry Maryam Nawaz sahiba but Jinnah’s name is the RED LINE for every Pakistani

[مستنصر حسین تارڑ @mutansartarar]

زندگی میں کئی مقامات پر مجھے لگا کہ انسان کے پاس زندگی میں کچھ اور ہو نہ ہو
باپ ضرور موجود ہونا چاہیے۔

[PIA @Official_PIA]

Our hearts go out to the families & loved ones affected by today's tragic crash. At #PIA, we stand in solidarity with our fellow aviation community, offering our deepest condolences to Flight 171 and all those impacted.
#planecrash

[Hammad A. @hammadali2]

@PilotPoli Modern aircraft like the 787 have multiple layers of protection:
1) Takeoff configuration warning
2) Flight management systems (FMS) and takeoff performance calculators

[Bilawal Bhutto Zardari @BBhuttoZardari]

Pakistan is not the only country that has accused India of sponsoring terrorism on its soil. Rather than politicizing terrorism, India must cease using terrorism a tool of its foreign policy, India must cooperate with the international community to combat terrorism. I’m hearing that India will not be invited to the G7 for the first time in seven years - is this also somehow Pakistans fault?

[Hammad A. @hammadali2]

Air Commodore (R) Sajjad Haider led attack on the Pathankot airbase during the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War.

@ICT_Police @dcislamabad

[Hammad A. @hammadali2]

@ICT_Police will you do something about this behaviour and fire him ?

[Mohammed Ali @JaanbaazAli]

تیس چالیس بعد اگر اورنگزیب یا نعمان اکرم، یا کوئی اور جو آج کل ہیرو ہیں وہ جمہوریت کے لیے آئین کے لیے اگر باہر نکلے تو انکے ساتھ ائیر کموڈور سجاد حیدر والا ہی سلوک ہوگا۔

[Hammad A. @hammadali2]

“I said to India and Pakistan- let's stop it. If you stop it, we'll do trade. If you don't stop it, we're not gonna do any trade..

...we stopped a nuclear conflict.” ~ President Trump

#trump #india #PakistanArmy #pakistan

[Hammad A. @hammadali2]

@DCSWORLDPAK https://t.co/AEH9ojwQv0

[Hammad A. @hammadali2]

Made in France 🇫🇷 Wrecked in India 🇮🇳

$AM $SPY $XPAR #ceasefire #india #pakistan

[Hammad A. @hammadali2]

Made in France 🇫🇷 Wrecked in India 🇮🇳

$AM $SPY $XPAR #ceasefire #india #pakistan

[Hammad A. @hammadali2]

Dassault shares $AM down again on Monday market open after #Rafale losses.

#IndiaPakistanConflict #PSX #SPX

[Turkish Century @TurkishCentury]

2 STATES, 1 NATION. 🇹🇷💚🇵🇰

[Hammad A. @hammadali2]

#IndiaPakistanWar2025 #ceasefire

[Hammad A. @hammadali2]

How Pakistan Shot Down India’s Rafale 🇵🇰⚔️🇮🇳

An inside report reveals how the Pakistan Air Force outmaneuvered and downed India’s cutting-edge #Rafale jet. A tale of precision, training and tactical brilliance.

#IndiaPakistanWar #IndiaPakistanWar2025 #PAF