Nauman Iqbal

[Nauman Iqbal @naumanfca]

@Real_MZubair @YousufNazar Elites are talking about elite capture

[Nauman Iqbal @naumanfca]

@Asad_Umar The fact is grid power is replaced by Solar and hence can't be referred as growth index any more

[Nauman Iqbal @naumanfca]

@SaleemFarrukh Deregulation is indeed failure on part of Govt in controlling affairs in their hand

[Nauman Iqbal @naumanfca]

@SaleemFarrukh @DrIkramulHaq Precisely we exported 2.15 B $ less than last year during first 9 months. Last year saw a bonanza in export of rice from Pakistan

[Nauman Iqbal @naumanfca]

@SaleemFarrukh @DrIkramulHaq Nothing to do with electricity . Fact is that we have less rice exports this by more than 1.5 billion -$

[Nauman Iqbal @naumanfca]

@ZubairKhanPK FBR is saying something else

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@AmirHQureshi Super tax , 7E and Reduction in salary slabs & PDL all were done during his tenure. Although many things were right but how can someone deny the same and criticise successors for not reversing the same. Pathetic and hilarious

[Nauman Iqbal @naumanfca]

@MiftahIsmail Last 10 years comapartives growth would be more interesting to analyse

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@asadnasir2000 Financial Year or Calendar Year

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@asadnasir2000 Chief Economist of YouTube republic of Pakistan

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@SaleemFarrukh This has to be seen in conjunction with investment to GDP, Savings to GDP. Fiscal Balace to GDP. Current A/C Balance

[Nauman Iqbal @naumanfca]

@StockCompounder M more interested in how much will be the growth in taxes from those persons so that the resources be available for those who r not millionaires

[Nauman Iqbal @naumanfca]

@Rana_Atif101 @Hammad_Azhar The only IPP having annual capacity of more than 100 billion is a nuclear power plant

[Nauman Iqbal @naumanfca]

@welawaqeel689 Poster is misleading but the massage is right one : slabe for max tax slab should not be applied on monthly salary of less than 1 million per month

[farrukh saleem @SaleemFarrukh]

The tide is turning

Twenty years. That is how long Pakistan went without opening its offshore frontier to new bids. On Wednesday, May 20, the government awarded 23 exploration blocks covering approximately 54,600 square kilometres of the country’s maritime waters. Initial investment into phase one: $82 million. Projected investment into phase two: $1 billion.

Now consider this. Since its independence, 78 years ago, Pakistan has drilled exactly 18 exploratory wells in its entire offshore territory. Eighteen. In 78 years. In May 2026 alone, it awarded 23 blocks.

Plain fact: Pakistan’s offshore sits wedged between two proven hydrocarbon giants – Oman and Iran to the west, India’s Bombay High to the east.

Look eastwards. India’s Bombay High – discovered in 1974, just across the Arabian Sea – has produced over two billion barrels of oil. It once accounted for 38 per cent of India’s domestic production. It transformed India’s energy balance. It still produces today.

The reality: Pakistan sits on the same geological shelf. The same Arabian Sea. The same limestone formations that made Bombay High a giant have also been identified in the offshore Indus basin. Geologists call it an “anomalous gap in a prolific petroliferous belt”. Translation: everything around Pakistan has oil. Pakistan alone has not looked hard enough.

The signs are there. Along the entire Makran coastline, there are gas seepages, oil seepages and mud volcanoes that bubble methane to the surface. In 2013, an earthquake off Gwadar pushed a new island out of the sea. Methane. Hydrocarbons. The earth trying to tell us something.

Yes, one well drilled in the Indus offshore tested gas at 3.7 million cubic feet per day. Encouraging. Not enough to celebrate. But enough to keep looking.

Here is the brutal arithmetic: 18 wells drilled in 78 years works out to one well every four years. Norway, which discovered its offshore oil in 1969, has drilled over 5,000 exploration wells since. The comparison is almost unfair. Almost.

The $82 million committed in phase one is a start. But let us be honest: $82 million across 23 blocks is thin. One deepwater well alone can cost $50–100 million. This is not yet a drilling programme. It is a signal. A declaration of intent.

The intent is welcome. The execution is everything.

Pakistan spends $20 billion a year importing energy it may well be sitting on. Twenty-three blocks have been awarded. The drills have not yet turned. When they do – and they must – the Arabian Sea may yet write a different story for this country. The tide, at last, is turning.

Remember: Norway found oil in 1969. Remember: Norway drilled 5,000 wells. Pakistan found courage in 2026. It awarded 23 blocks. The arithmetic of ambition is simple: you only find what you are willing to look for.

The good news is not discovery. The good news is movement. Pakistan has not found offshore oil yet. But Pakistan has reopened the door it kept shut for two decades. For once, policy is moving in the same direction as geology. The tide is turning.
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[Nauman Iqbal @naumanfca]

@BaigShayan1234 Hmmm: need to have complete knowledge of this model: if u can give some sort of insight

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@adeel_azhar He must be retailer/ whole seller considering salary paid to employee as charity

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@daniel86cricket Wasim, Saqlain, Saeed Ajmal, Waqar

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@SaleemFarrukh What was petrol price in India on 2022 in pkr parity

[Nauman Iqbal @naumanfca]

@SaleemFarrukh @ansukhera Today's price include Rs. 80 PDL on average, rest of the items are same except for some sort of subsidy in 2022. But then u also need to look at the number of Fiscal deficit or Primary deficit of both the period. Can't single out analysis of one item while ignoring others.