Muneeb Bukhari

Interested in political economy, culture, technology and society.

[Muneeb Bukhari @muneebbukharii]

@Matiullahjan919 uncle shitposting k lye ek separate spam handle rukh leyn plz 😂

[AB⚕ @AbsoluteBruno]

This might genuinely be the craziest haram ball performance football has ever seen. Paraguay were shameless😭😭
https://t.co/KjmMahQNOD

[Muneeb Bukhari @muneebbukharii]

@shaheryarhassan 😢

[Muneeb Bukhari @muneebbukharii]

@omar_quraishi how long would this survive or it would be cut through by the malir river again in monsoon?

[Blunt @Shinamuller]

You want the real truth , Nadeem Haque, let’s speak it plainly .
You are an educated man, a former Vice Chancellor, a senior bureaucrat who helped shape the system. Yet you decided to rent an apartment in a building that had been trapped in litigation for twenty years. Twenty years.
Why would a smart man like you do that? Because you truly believed you were above it all. You thought the same system you served & helped build would never touch someone like you. You saw yourself as special, the Pakistani Chicago Boy, safe and untouchable.
That was your delusion. You weren’t living there in good faith. You were living there in quiet arrogance, convinced the rules didn’t apply to men of your class and intelligence.
Then one night at one in the morning the police came banging on your door and dragged you out like any ordinary tenant. Suddenly all your titles and sophistication meant nothing. The system you thought belonged to you showed you exactly who owns it.
That’s the real joke. You weren’t a victim of surprise injustice. You were just another elite who finally learned that in this country no one is truly above the game they helped play.
Welcome to the club, Mr. Chicago Boy.

[Muneeb Bukhari @muneebbukharii]

@nadeemhaque Uncle why were you renting at an illegally constructed building in the first place? you should have know better how the system works? there’s no point in whining about this now.

[Muneeb Bukhari @muneebbukharii]

@Matiullahjan919 @QaisarJaved_ I don’t understand why people are mad about his comments. He just stated the facts and if we are so concerned about our image globally we should also work on improving our human rights condition domestically before projecting as a global peacemaker state.

[🤖 @Daeffiston]

Pakistanis waking up in the MENA region

[Atif Mian @AtifRMian]

How Pakistan made the world over 3 trillion dollars richer

On April 7, the world edged toward Trump's 8pm ultimatum that "a whole civilization will die tonight." By mid-afternoon, Polymarket gave less than a 5% chance for a ceasefire. But then in a flurry of last-minute diplomacy led by Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif, ceasefire odds shifted from near-impossibility to 100%, as both U.S. and Iranian leadership publicly acknowledged the important role played by Pakistan.

The sharp shift in probability of ceasefire from near-zero to certainty, allows us to estimate cleanly the market value of Pakistan's successful diplomacy. There was a sharp jump of 2.9% in S&P500 around the ceasefire announcement. The reaction was similar the world over.

Global markets represent about $125T, so a 2.9% jump represents a gain of 3.6 trillion dollars for the world. Pakistan helped create TEN times its own GDP for the world!

For me, the best part is not the trillions of dollar, but seeing Pakistan on the world stage as a peace maker.

I hope Pakistan runs with this new identity by promoting peace not only abroad, but also at home. That means moving away from politics of division and exclusion, and treating every citizen as its own.

[Muneeb Bukhari @muneebbukharii]

@waqassyed9777 @AmmarRashidT I agree, our defense minister is just a loudmouthed dumb guy, didn’t expect anything better from him.

[Muneeb Bukhari @muneebbukharii]

@waqassyed9777 @AmmarRashidT go and read some of the tweets within the right wing commentators of Israel in Hebrew, you will be shocked to see the mentality these people have. even their left wing is grossly racist, inhumane and violent in their mindset and plans towards Arabs and Muslims.

[Amir Husain @amirhusain_tx]

WHAT TOMORROW CAN BRING
Pakistan, Iran, Türkiye are contiguous. Iraq is the gateway to KSA, Qatar is a short hop by ferry, connected with the KSA. Most importantly, China and Pakistan are connected by land via the highest highway in the world - the Karakoram Highway. But for all this closeness, politics and sanctions have been a spoiler.

Now we are possibly days away from these sanctions being removed. The gravity of this moment is impossible to fully take in. What can come next is integration between these countries that were artificially kept apart.

The potential is immense. There are massive complementarities which could never be exercised due to sanctions and foreign manipulation. There is a real chance both these constraints crumble in the weeks ahead.

Energy will be unlimited between Iran, KSA and Qatar fueling all these countries. China can help implement cheap solar, as it has in Pakistan, which now derives 25% of its energy needs via solar.

This region will be an aviation hub and a massive drone power. No one exports more drones than Turkiye, and no one has more drones than Iran, possibly sans China. Türkiye and Pakistan are building fighter and trainer aircraft, KSA and Iran can use them.

Türkiye is working on a jet engine, all three countries can use it. China has commercial and military engines that can integrate with some of these regional programs.

Pakistan is building satellites, Iran has SLV launch capability. A regional space program?

Pakistan produces large quantities of cement and exports to the ME. Iran specializes in concrete and its scientists have published world leading research in this area. Construction can boom and KSA’s dreams of huge development projects can be supported through this local capacity.

Türkiye and Iran manufacture large numbers of cars, Pakistan is catching up but needs more indigenization which these countries can help with.

Iran’s excellence in physics and mathematics is world class. KAUST in KSA is a very well-endowed university. Türkiye has amazing engineering schools. Pakistan’s NUST, LUMS, QAU and other University programs rank highly. Cooperation between these institutions means ALL of them will improve.

Tourism? There is unlimited potential. This region is the most interesting part of the world. It is the cradle of civilization. It has been kept hidden due to sanctions and political walls. But when you can drive from Islamabad to Tehran to Istanbul, and on your way back, take a ferry to Doha, drive across the Kingdom and pay your respects at the Prophet’s mosque in Medina… bliss! When Doha to Skardu flights bring in tourists to the most beautiful, tallest mountains in the world. When students from Ankara drive to Persepolis. There is unlimited potential.

What is it that this region cannot produce? What area of science, education, health, leisure does not materially improve across all these connected nations as barriers come down?

I am so hopeful about what tomorrow will bring. Let the sun rise. Bismillah…

[Muneeb Bukhari @muneebbukharii]

@BibsBrams @Bhuut_ @SocialDigitally 😂😂

[Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz @bundeskanzler]

I welcome the two-week ceasefire agreed by the United States and Iran last night.

We thank Pakistan for its mediation.

The aim now is to negotiate a lasting end to the war. We are in close coordination with our partners on this matter.

[MD Umair Khan @MDUmairKh]

Officials don't just grab their phone and start tweeting from their blanket. They are written by their staff who address state officials by their formal titles.

Hence, that odd heading that Pakistan's Premier Shehbaz Sharif or his team forgot to remove initially.

When the world is on the brink of WW3, some conspiracy theorists and petty people still can't let go of their childish behaviour and dumb claims that its draft was sent by the White House on WhatsApp or something.

Each one of them should be muted and their opinions completely ignored in the future. For them, this is some game.

[Muneeb Bukhari @muneebbukharii]

@Geelani01 @AhmadHassanArbi I don’t have any problem with faith or using religious narratives to encourage people for national development but using faith to create teleological narratives for holy wars in the region is problematic. We have to be different from Israel, India, Taliban, no space for extremism

[Najam Ali @najam_ali]

I have found out.

This is what actually happened, nothing more nothing less.

A draft message was shared with Washington and Tehran, clearly labeled:
“Draft – Pakistan PM’s Message on X.”

But apparently, basic comprehension is too much to expect from some people, especially from my Indian friends.

[Muneeb Bukhari @muneebbukharii]

@SHABAZGIL After this episode it is clear to me that PTI is working actively with Indian, Israeli and all antistate elements against Pakistan for $’s. Khuda tum sab k naseeb main aesey hi zillat rukhey jaesey abhi zillat main zindagi guzaar rhey ho!

[Muneeb Bukhari @muneebbukharii]

@ryangrim I’m disappointed, you should have known how strategic communications teams work, you’re just trying to cope big time by using a small mistake of some rookie socia media manager in the PM’s team, such copywriting mistakes do happen occasionally within teams and it’s no big issue.

[Muneeb Bukhari @muneebbukharii]

I’m disappointed, you should have known how strategic communications teams work, you’re just trying to cope big time by using a small mistake of some rookie socia media manager in the PM’s team, such copywriting mistakes do happen occasionally within teams and it’s no big issue.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including:

"*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*"

Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM," they would just call him prime minister. The U.S. and Israel, of course, would call him "Pakistan's PM."

Would be funny if the fate of the world wasn't hanging in the balance.