Saadia Niazi

New Silk Roads | focusing BRI/China | Central & South Asia | Diplomacy | Non traditional threats/ climate

[Alifya Sohail @AlifyaSohail]

BREAKING: Jailed Pakistani lawyers Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha have been awarded the Ludovic-Trarieux Human Rights Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious human rights honours for lawyers. The award was first bestowed on Nelson Mandela in 1985 while he was imprisoned by South Africa’s apartheid regime.

[Saadia Niazi @IrSaadia]

Well articulated indeed

[FSI Stanford @FSIStanford]

The U.S. cannot match China's scale alone, and pretending otherwise is a strategic mistake, warned @RushDoshi at a @StanfordSCCEI conference.

Read his recommendations for how to transform alliances into an engine of shared economic and industrial capacity. https://t.co/JgE6m8zP3l

[Saadia Niazi @IrSaadia]

I just finished a book of @RushDoshi The Long Game...really enjoyed it...as very much of my interest # emergingChina

[Ashok Swain @ashoswai]

#WorldEnvironmentDay

[Naveed Iftikhar @navift]

Sometimes the crisis becomes too big and too heavy to deal with. So the best option is closing the eyes.

This is what we are doing with Pakistan's higher education system. Dozens of universities opened in the last two decades. Now the unnecessary debate of salaries of Professors. The real debate should happen about the quality of higher education plus closing universities. Focusing more on skill based training and only a fewer should be funded by the public exchequer to pursue undergrad and grad degrees.

This is so strange that our public sector is outsourcing schools to the private sector and opening new universities in the public sector.

The state needs to own and invest more in schools and skill programs. Convert almost fifty percent of universities into skills colleges with the new recruitment of professional trainers.

Without closing half of the universities govt can't improve higher education and can't compensate professors better.

With the kind of schooling we have not everyone deserve undergrad degree with public money.

[Saadia Niazi @IrSaadia]

Congratulations 👏

[Muhammad Taimur Fahad Khan @Muh_Taimur_Khan]

Delighted to share that my chapter, “Int'l Institutions, Migration Governance, & Social Justice: Rethinking Equity & Inclusion in Pakistan’s Policy Framework,” has been published in @SpringerNature vol. South Asia’s Institutional Dilemmas: Equity and Social Justice in Practice.

[Naveed Iftikhar @navift]

Children need to learn AI now. They need to know how this field is evolving. They need guidance and supervision to use it responsibly.

They need to build with ai for their careers and university admissions.

Considering this, @atomcamp has launched AI for Teens Bootcamp (13-18). This is online. So your children can join from anywhere.

https://t.co/H0kLApoyTj

[Naveed Iftikhar @navift]

Can new cities bring economic growth for Pakistan?

No.

New cities in Pakistan mean real estate development opportunities for the elite.

Every DHA, Bahria, and other such projects is a new city. Have we achieved growth with many such projects? No.

So what do we need to do?

Improve city management. Creat economic opportunities with vertical and dense growth for everyone. Focus on creative and technical skills of masses. Remove unnecessary barriers to businesses. Build more affordable housing meeting needs og 95 percent of the population. Current projects are only for less than 5 percent.

Growth and development requires better policies and state capability: improvements in political institutions, judiciary and, bureaucracy. New cities can't do it.

[Tahir Naeem Malik @TahirNaeemMalik]

Clever way to promote Elite Bakeries Eatries also plz ask how much pay they are giving to their workers & why in cash .
#TehzeebBakers

[Tariq Malik ™ @ReplyTariq]

Included in @okta #Identity25 (2026)
grateful, but also cautious.

We’ve spent years engineering identity systems. Now they’re starting to reshape power, access, and rights.

#Identity is not technology. It’s infrastructure of governance.

The next risk isn’t failure. It’s misuse.

P.S. Humbled to be in company of world 25 leaders, identity experts when you are student!

[Naveed Iftikhar @navift]

Nations and societies need different sectors and professionals for a functioning economic/social system. However, there is too much focus on certain professions in Pakistan.

For example, many only aspire to get a govt job, and some middle-class kids aspire to get a job in a multinational private company or so-called development sector organization. These roles are also needed, and some really contribute to society by joining such jobs.

But many such jobs won't take the economy or society to their next level of prosperity.

What do people not aspire to in Pakistan?

Academic roles, entrepreneurs, scientists, politicians. I think these are the real game changers in a society in the long run.

For marginalized or lower middle class govt and multinational (and development economist/practitioner job in an international aid/consulting organization) jobs give a chance to gain social mobility.

But I would expect much better from the middle and upper middle class.

I also wonder why elite universities in Pakistan only prepare their students for fancy jobs. Why dnt they train them to do something big. Many such elite kids end up doing mundane consulting jobs in international organizations. After spending so much money on their education. Why can't they build something like cursor AI?

[Tahir Naeem Malik @TahirNaeemMalik]

Pride of Pakistan ...
Pakistan TV Digital's Ayesha Mir selected for the UN RevCon Reporters Group

Pakistan TV Digital's Ayesha Mir has been selected for the RevCon Reporters Group — an international program by the Stanley Center's Developing Story Project covering the UN Treaty

[Aleema Khanum @Aleema_KhanPK]

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan is in solitary confinement since October 16, 2025.

He has spoken to his sons only twice in 2025 and once in February 2026 after Supreme Court orders. He has been denied books to read. He has received only 3 of the dozen books that we managed to get to adiala through a judge.

Then, a perfectly health and fit Imran Khan suddenly develops a clot in his eye. He was not provided medical assistance. For two weeks, he repeatedly told the jail superintendent that he CANNOT SEE.

The Adiala Jail superintendent Ghafoor Anjum DELAYED calling in a specialist for three months.

By the time the eye doctor came, the delay caused permanent damage to Imran Khan’s eye. We are extremely worried that his other eye could also develop a clot.

Imran khan has repeatedly sent messages over past few months that he is not satisfied with the treatment and there is only marginal improvement after the first injection in the eye. No improvement since then.

Over the past month, Bushra Bibi, his wife has also developed an eye condition and was operated upon last week.

Imran khan and his wife are being tortured through solitary confinement. We have repeatedly protested, demanding Imran Khan to be examined and treated at Shifa International Islamabad. There is an urgent need to identify the cause of the blood clot. Our worry is that his other eye could also develop a clot unless proper diagnosis is done and it’s treated accordingly

This is inhumane and a violation of all fundemental and human rights of a prisoner under Pakistan and International laws.

[Nadeem Haque @nadeemhaque]

Does pakistan have a planning ministry? What does it do.? Sll crises if us absent. All policies absent. Projects happen and fail it knows nothing.

[Saadia Niazi @IrSaadia]

@AbbasiKashif833 Imran khan has developed some flats near Taramari... Islamabad...despite making them ghost houses they can live there @AzazSyed @TahirNaeemMalik

[Saadia Niazi @IrSaadia]

We should develop and create new cities ..rather than expanding Islamabad making it's Manhattan and Shanghai....

[Tahir Naeem Malik @TahirNaeemMalik]

More than that its full of jealousy admission of foreign policy failure .

[Saadia Niazi @IrSaadia]

@ShakeelRamay The Indian media’s approach to the peace talks, as well as Pakistan’s mediation efforts, reflects a tone that seems both dismissive and arrogant

[Saadia Niazi @IrSaadia]

The Indian media’s approach to the peace talks, as well as Pakistan’s mediation efforts, reflects a tone that seems both dismissive and arrogant @AsadullahTweets @TahirNaeemMalik @AzazSyed @KlasraRauf

[Saadia Niazi @IrSaadia]

@zubair_layyah @TahirNaeemMalik @KlasraRauf @AzazSyed It's horrible to live on this side otherwise it's a very beautiful place to live