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[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.

[farrukh saleem @SaleemFarrukh]

Pakistan grows wheat. Bangladesh imports wheat. Yet Pakistanis pay more for flour.

[Shahbaz Rana @81ShahbazRana]

The government can No more be supported for its move to keep petroleum levy high at Rs80 per litre on petrol.
1- Levy had been introduced as an alternate to 18% GST to keep money out of divisible pool so it’s not shared with provinces.
2-At 18% GST, the levy rate today should have been around Rs41 per litre.

3-The Govt is charging extra Rs40 per litre, including today’s increase.
4- At GST equal rate, today petrol price could have been Rs270 per litre and diesel Rs293 per litre.
5-The government should Stop punishing people for its decision to keep spending in areas that are in provincial domain after 18 amendment by raising more and more indirect taxes without Parliament’s explicit nod!
6- Constitutional experts should also see whether the National Assembly can delegate power to increase tax rate without setting any upper limit.

[Nūr Mäsîd @maaseed]

@pratikgauri @cochinherald @5ireChain Bhag gya dhokay baz.

[Nūr Mäsîd @maaseed]

دیگر مراعات اس کے علاوہ ہیں۔

ایک طرف "خدائی خدمت گار" ہیں اور دوسری طرف غربت اور مہنگائی میں پسے ہوئے عوام۔

شاید انہی حالات کے لیے یہ قول ہے کہ "کفر کا نظام چل سکتا ہے مگر ظلم کا نظام نہیں چل سکتا۔"
#salaryincrease
#ministeraurangzeb
#budget2026

[Nūr Mäsîd @maaseed]

حکمران دوست بجٹ

بجٹ تجاویز میں سرکاری ملازمین کی تنخواہوں اور پنشن میں 7 فی صد اور عام شہری کی کم از کم اجرت میں 10 فی صد اضافے کی تجویز ہے۔

اس کے برعکس حال ہی میں حکومت اور اپوزیشن ممبران کی متفقہ منظوری سے ممبران پارلیمنٹ نے اپنی تنخواہوں میں 138 فی صد اضافہ کیا۔

[Shahbaz Rana @81ShahbazRana]

Just four days before the budget, the government has imposed additional Rs24.74 per litre levy on petrol. Now new levy rate on petrol is Rs116 per litre.
It offered Rs4 per litre olive branch to petrol consumers to make them happy. Actual reduction in petrol price in international market was Rs26.60 per litre.
As against new price of Rs378, the petrol price should have been Rs353 per liter.
As per commitment with IMF to charge Rs80 levy, petrol price should have been Rs342 per litre.

[Nūr Mäsîd @maaseed]

@CMShehbaz عوام کا خون چوسنا بند کرو!

[Nūr Mäsîd @maaseed]

@CMShehbaz جولائ 2025 سے جون 2026 تک حکومت پٹرول ٹیکسوں سے 1,500 ارب کما لے گی جو پورے سال کے ٹارگٹ سے بھی زیادہ ہے اور آئل کمپنیاں فروری 2026 سے آج تک 72 ارب روپے کا منافع کما چکی۔ اس آمدن کا بڑاحصہ حکمرانوں کی عیاشیوں اور پروٹوکول پر خرچ ہو رہاہے یا چند خاندانوں کی جیبوں میں جا رہا ہے۔

[Syed Talat Hussain @TalatHussain12]

Ministers mentioning "relief" even as they batter the public with backbreaking petro price hike is, to say the least, shameful. No less shameful is that they sit in front of the cameras and praise each other's performance before an audience whose majority lives in dire economic circumstances. The whole lot seems to think that a war victory is a license to treat the people and their issues with total derision. That's more than shameful.

[Nūr Mäsîd @maaseed]

@livewith5ire @pratikgauri He must be appointed as a knight of scam in india..

[Nūr Mäsîd @maaseed]

@stockifyy4u 200 DMA

[Nūr Mäsîd @maaseed]

@ARNOfficiall Correction in the index and crash in individual stocks as most of them fell more than 30 percent

[Nūr Mäsîd @maaseed]

@IhsanTipu Yes its M82A1 variant by Barrett. Range is upto 2km for point target with maximum range expanding 4km.

[Nūr Mäsîd @maaseed]

A strange idiot

trying to scare people with “bad things”
who haven’t seen a single “good thing” in the last fifty years.

They will probably say:
“Let’s start over again.”
#Afghanistan
#USA
#DonaldTrump
#bagramairbase

[Nūr Mäsîd @maaseed]

The real truth is that the relationship btwn America and #Israel is not based on any temporary convenience or transaction, but rather on a relationship of deep faith and ideology. Unfortunately, we #Muslims have still failed to understand this basic truth.
#IsraelTerroristState

[Nūr Mäsîd @maaseed]

If a wealthy state like #Qatar, which has given #America the most expensive gifts and #trillions of #dollars in investment, still has not been able to gain its trust, the reason is not simply interest.
#Israel #بردا_وسلاما_ياقطر #qatarattack
#Hamas

[Nūr Mäsîd @maaseed]

@themaran @cz_binance @5ireChain @prateek_fire @pratikgauri Since then All of them has lost and some are dead too.