Junaid Niazi

Digital Entrepreneur. Born in #Pakistan, living in the #UAE.

[Junaid Niazi @niazijun]

In #Pakistan, 94% of youth lack library access, 93% lack sports facilities, and 71% lack access to any surveyed facility. Yet we talk endlessly about our youth being our future.
How can they build tomorrow when we deny them the spaces to grow today?
https://t.co/8xhy7a4nzt

[Mehreen Zahra-Malik @mehreenzahra]

Pakistan has set new tax rules for social media creators: monetized YouTube content is valued at Rs195 ($0.71) per 1,000 views, creators can deduct up to 30% in expenses and free products or gifts count as income. Quarterly advance tax payments are also required. https://t.co/rWZW1HE08e

[Yar Muhammad Khan Niazi @YarMKNiazi]

بالقسط لانگ مارچ - پانچواں دن!

وزیراعلیٰ خیبرپختونخوا محمد سہیل خان آفریدی کی قیادت میں عظیم الشان لانگ مارچ کا قافلہ پشاور کی جانب رواں دواں ہے۔ قافلہ پشاور کے مختلف مقامات سے ہوتا ہوا آج رات چارسدہ پہنچے گا۔

لانگ مارچ میں ہزاروں کی تعداد میں عوام اور کارکنان شریک ہیں، جن میں بچے، نوجوان، بزرگ اور خواتین بھی شامل ہیں۔ پاکستان کے مختلف علاقوں سے تعلق رکھنے والے عوام ایک ہی عزم، ایک ہی جذبے اور ایک ہی مطالبے کے ساتھ اس تاریخی قافلے کا حصہ بن رہے ہیں

رہا کرو، رہا کرو — عمران خان کو رہا کرو!

[Maleeha Lodhi @LodhiMaleeha]

This qoutes a senior Pakistani military official as saying " Pakistan Air Force fighter jets were being used in strikes against the Houthis." Another said Pakistan’s role will focus on degrading Houthi drone and missile threats through air support https://t.co/q09GEompdM

[Zafar Ullah @Zafaro07_]

لانگ مارچ خیبر سے نکل پڑا، عوام کی بڑی تعداد میں شرکت!!

[Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar @mustafa_nawazk]

A decade of political crisis has eaten away people’s incomes .. Root cause that no one is bothered to address

[Yousuf Nazar @YousufNazar]

Pakistan is home to "about 48 percent" of the extreme poor in a region stretching from Morocco to Afghanistan. That is the World Bank's verdict in its October 2026 MENAAP Economic Update, and it indicts every government Pakistan has had since 2018.

Between 2018/19 and 2024/25, Pakistan's $3-a-day poverty rate rose by 6.4 percentage points. Of all the World Bank's regions, the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan is "the only region in which poverty remains above pre-pandemic levels." The Bank says the increase "was driven primarily by a rise in poverty in Pakistan."

This happened while the economy grew. The Bank expects real GDP per capita to "rise further above 2019 levels." When output grows and poverty rises anyway, that is not bad luck. The system is rigged. The gains go to the top, and the bottom pays for the adjustment: inflation reached "about 11 percent by midyear" and petrol prices rose "40 percent or higher."

The protected business class barely innovates. Only 3 percent of Pakistani firms report product innovation and 1 percent process innovation, "against a lower-middle-income peer average of 23 percent and 14 percent." Firms that profit from protection and patronage don't need to.

Islamabad talks of "AI sovereignty," yet "only half of grade 5 students in Pakistan can read a simple story in Pashto, Sindhi, or Urdu."

Three governments and successive IMF programmes later, the verdict stands. Pakistan does not lack resources. It lacks a state that works for its people. https://t.co/4bNSG3NUyf

[Junaid Niazi @niazijun]

When “fake news” and “anti-state propaganda” lack clear legal definitions, a cybercrime agency policing speech risks becoming an instrument of state power. NCCIA must explain its legal basis, oversight and safeguards.
#SavePakistan
https://t.co/LaloPvnGYR

[farrukh saleem @SaleemFarrukh]

CM challenges Centre’s counterterrorism doctrine:
1. If KP can reject a national counterterrorism framework and substitute its own, what happens when Balochistan wants another?
2. Sindh a third?
3. Punjab a fourth?
My column: https://t.co/NdYr2aTCzO

[Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor]

🚨🚨#BREAKInG: In bail matter of #Pakistan’s most devoted human rights defenders @ImaanZHazir and @AdvHadiali, ATC judge Abul Hasnaat Zulqarnain shows displeasure on DSP legal @ICT_Police for not presenting record and warned the DSP that I will send you jail for six months if not present the record, it’s a matter of somebody’s life & liberty and you are playing with the courts like this.

[Reema Omer @reema_omer]

Extremely troubling how courts have turned the right to a fair trial on its head by shifting due process entitlements from the accused to the prosecution/state

Fair trial guarantees, including the right not to be condemned unheard, are designed as a shield for the accused against state power - not the other way around

Adjourning the case for bail until 13 October clearly prolongs the deprivation of liberty of Imaan and Hadi for another 8 days due to no fault of their own, and rewards the state for deliberately obstructing the administration of justice

[Junaid Niazi @niazijun]

The contrast is stark: #Islamabad is deepening defence commitments to protect Saudi Arabia while three Pakistani sailors died after months in captivity off Somalia.
Why do Pakistani lives seem to matter so little to our leaders?
@HamidMirPAK

https://t.co/62ylZDg3so

[Shahid Mehmood @ShahidMohmand79]

In today's article, I argue that Pakistan's power halls have actually a vague idea of what 'China model's is about. Once they understand what it is and how it works, they would discard it altogether https://t.co/Szpf9YW5fc

[Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor]

🚨🚨#BREAKING: International Statements Calling for the Release of #Pakistan’s most devoted human rights defenders @ImaanZHazir and @AdvHadiali.
#ReleaseImaanAndHadi

[Nadeem Haque @nadeemhaque]

The sovereign-bank nexus isn’t an accident — it keeps finance shallow.
• Banks’ govt exposure ~60% of assets by 2023 — 3x EM average, 3x private lending.
• Treasuries became easy profit centers. Why hunt SMEs or small savers?
• 113 million adults (73%) unbanked. Cash fills the gap the formal system left open.
• Stop repeating “check the cash economy.” We are forced to hold cash.
• Govt uses banks to restrict financial development: licenses tightly rationed, little new competition.
• FX and fund management stay inside the same circle.
• Why privatize banks only to hand new owners a protected monopoly — poor service, few choices, lazy banking?
• Result: recycle deposits into sovereign paper, skip real risk intermediation.
• Killing the Rs 5,000 note changes nothing. Develop finance, not captive banks.
https://t.co/nF5tAuIhRX

[Azaz Syed @AzazSyed]

حیدر شیرازی چھوٹے بھائی اور بہت اچھے صحافی ہیں ۔ انہوں نے تہذیب کے ساتھ چیف سیکرٹری آزادکشمیر سے بات چیت کی تو انہوں نے اچھے انداز سے جواب دئیے مگر آئی جی آزادکشمیر کیپٹن رئٹائرڈ لیاقت کا رویہ دیکھیے پہلے وہ غصے میں آئے پھر مائیک چھیننے کی کوشش کی ۔ حیدر شیرازی نے ضبط اور پیشہ وارانہ انداز کا دامن نہ چھوڑا ۔ کون قابل مذمت ہے فیصلہ آپ کر لیجیے

[Junaid Niazi @niazijun]

Functions remain duplicated, responsibilities overlap & local governments remain dependent on provincial governments. Power was transferred, but too often stopped at another elite layer instead of reaching citizens. 2/
@MiftahIsmail

[Junaid Niazi @niazijun]

The 18th Amendment promised a major reconfiguration of Pakistan’s governance, but devolution from the centre to provinces was not followed by meaningful devolution from provinces to districts. 1/
@MiftahIsmail https://t.co/bLpY1kTalG

[Hasnaat Malik @HasnaatMalik]

احسن بھون کے حق میں وکلاء کی سب بڑی تنظیم پاکستان بار کونسل کے سربراہ مسعود چشتی بھی سامنے آگئے ۔۔۔ تاہم پروفیشنل گروپ کی سارے معاملے میں خاموشی معنی خیز ھے۔

[Junaid Niazi @niazijun]

Water is too precious to be managed according to political convenience. A country facing climate uncertainty needs planning, not improvisation. 2/
@Taimur_Laal
https://t.co/NLovUlVZ4Z

[Junaid Niazi @niazijun]

If reservoir releases are being shaped by political pressure rather than transparent rules based on water availability, crop needs, environmental requirements, & future risks, Pakistan is effectively gambling with its food security. 1/
@Taimur_Laal