Sumra

Economist |Policy Enthusiast | Altruist |Civil Servant|

[Sumra @sumraAbbas1]

Since 2009, BISP funding rised from Rs 34bn to over Rs 700bn, completely outpacing PSDP. Massive spending on short-term safety nets, yet poverty & unemployment remain stuck. Are we just treating the symptoms of economic distress instead of curing the disease?What needs to change?

[Kashif Mateen Ansari @kashifmateenpk]

Pakistan doesn’t have a tax system. It has a punishment system.

It punishes the salaried, the documented, the consumer, the electricity user and the petrol buyer; while privilege negotiates, litigates and escapes.

That is not revenue mobilisation.
That is fiscal injustice.

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[Republic Policy @republicpolicy]

Pakistan's middle class isn't shrinking — it's vanishing.

Petrol hikes, governance failure, and relentless inflation are finishing what decades of elite capture began. This is no longer a country of three classes. It is a country of the privileged and the desperate.

[Sumra @sumraAbbas1]

@Xanibrehman Lol jbh

[Arifa Noor @arifanoor72]

Hard to remember the last time any govt (including military dictatorships) has been this cruel to the poor and vulnerable in Isb

[m.🇵🇸 @warrashot]

More than 13K houses demolished, 40K+ ppl homeless in Bari Imam, Saidpur, Nurpur but nobody's speaking up, nobody's voicing for the voiceless. Visuals are heartbreaking and what's more concerning is how stone hearted we've become.💔

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When 12 people were killed in Charlie Hebdo attacks, World Leaders thronged to Paris for a Solidarity March

But no world leader has organised a march to protest killing 2000 civilians, ~200 children, ~300 women, 7 journalists, 178 health workers, and 3 UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

[The Protagonist @protagonist_xi]

Just letting you know that there hasn’t been a SINGLE day since October 7 2023 when Israel didn’t murder anyone.

Not ONE.

[Sumra @sumraAbbas1]

@mehreenzahra Sitting on the same table is a breakthrough. That's the 'News' that's it. Diplomacy isn't about sensational stories. It's slow and takes time. Have patience and let officials professionally do the stuff.

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics (the Nobel of mathematics), studied at Sharif University of Technology - which was just bombed by US-Israel. No US woman has ever win a Fields medal. The moral descent of USA continues lower and lower.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

When a "superpower" begins bombing schools, hospitals, bridges, universities, and residential buildings, it indicates that they have been defeated. In their frustration over this defeat, they are resorting to war crimes to vent their anger.

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

You know you live in a fucked up world when an attack on four empty ambulances in London makes more noise than strikes on 100 medical facilities in Lebanon and over 700 attacks on health care in Gaza.

[Sumra @sumraAbbas1]

What about international laws and humanity now? 😢 😢

[Sameh Ahmed 𓂆 🇵🇸 @PalPress24]

These are the pants of the child, #Jawad Abu Nasser — a small piece of fabric that stands as powerful evidence of the crime.

They bear traces of his blood, reflecting the abuse he endured. A visible hole can also be seen, indicating the insertion of a sharp object, resembling a metal rod, into his foot, with a clear exit point through both the foot and the fabric.

The evidence does not end there; there are also marks that appear to be burns, likely caused by cigarettes being extinguished on them.

The pants of a child not yet a year and a half old… yet they tell a story that cannot be justified.

[David Abdulrazak Atta @the_davidatta]

Kurt Zuoma kicked a cat, and the West caught fire...

IDF soldiers tortured a baby with a lighted cigarette, and the West fell asleep..

That's all you need to know about the West.

[Sumra @sumraAbbas1]

Beyond map lines, Pakistan is the essential stabilizer in a world of volatile friction. #pakistanemergingpower #diplomacy #Iran

[Financial Times @FT]

Pakistan steps up as go-between in Trump’s Iran crisis https://t.co/ErMrl8gKwi

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

Block the straight of Hormuz for a week and the world goes mad but block the Rafah crossing for years, preventing the entry of food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and nobody bats an eye. It’s not hard to see that this world values markets, profit and capitalism over human lives.

[Sumra @sumraAbbas1]

@EmmanuelMacron Replace "Iran" with "Israel and US" and it will make more sense! Otherwise your whole written essay is just bullshit

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is how media lies to you in real time.

[Sumra @sumraAbbas1]

@Xanibrehman Hahaha wohi to! System sytem

[Sumra @sumraAbbas1]

When truth becomes a crime and silence becomes survival, the system itself is the murderer.
#SystemFailure #CORRUPTION #Justice