Karachi ranked 170/173 on this week's EIU liveability index. Worse than Kyiv. Worse than Tehran.
I traced part of why in a paper published yesterday: a single 2021 clause lets Sindh's government reassign Karachi's municipal functions by gazette notice — no vote required.
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Six years ago, I helped write a policy to protect minor girls from forced conversion & child marriage. It was ignored — until a court validated a 13-year-old's marriage this March. Being right and being ignored isn't a success story. Wrote more for @TFT_:
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3/ We're stuck in the 182k-190k zone right now. Break above 190k on real volume and we're off again. Get rejected here and it's a few weeks of sideways chop probably.
2/ Rating upgrades, back in the international debt markets, inflation cooling, SBP rate cut expected soon. IMF programme is actually translating into real confidence now, not just talk.
This is what humanity looks like. 🤍 Free checkups, free medicines, free smiles — for every single person who walked through that door. No one was turned away. Not one. 🇵🇰 #AbbottabadCares#HealthForAll
Policy reform tip: the document is the easy part. Embed ownership, build the relationships, and never stop advocating. Consensus fades. Priorities shift. The policy that keeps being championed is the one that survives.