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For almost all occupations women earn less than men not be a small % but sweeping numbers
Even service sector jobs as well.
For example a female in a manager level job is likely to be paid almost 50% of a man in same category
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Pakistan vaccinated 200,000 people in one single day !
Good work !
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This website gives you CNIC , name , address if you enter a phone number
This is the state of affair of Pakistani telecom service providers and we keep building up eco system on phone numbers including bank accounts
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Some good steps by the IK govt in 3.5 years ( thread)
1/ cabinet meetings: they were held regularly unlike NS govt . Cabinet govt is central to Westminster democracy
2/ appraisal system of ministers: good step in right direction
3/ stress on poorest : panahgah and langar
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PTI boycotted 2008 election
PTI gave resignations from 2013 election seats
PTI now planning to resign
PTI only stays in parliament when it is in power .
It does opposition only on roads ?
Imran khan gives nation annecdotes of West. Is that democratic ethos at play?
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Federal Party in Centre taking seats in GB
2009 PPP 14 out of 24 ( 58%)
2015 PMLN 16 out 24 ( 66%)
2020 PTI 8 out of 24 ( 33%)
Elections getting tougher and more idea and agenda based or poor show by PTI despite having a natural upper hand ?
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Would CNN appoint Tom cruise to interview Bill Clinton or Barrack Obama?
Hum News finds it ok to do through Shan
This is the standard that even the newest channel in the industry set up by a respected media group with deep pockets
Journalism needs to return to professionals
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More than 4 crore riders have used Peshawar BRT till now
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Close to 45% of adult population has received either one or both Covid 19 vaccine in Pakistan
Spectacular performance
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As India runs out of oxygen should Pakistan step in ?
We have relatively better supplies for now
Delhi is say 3 hour drive for oxygen trucks
I suggest for humanity sake .
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Senator Sherry Rehman confirms in Senate that Billion Tree Tsunami trees planted have had 80 to 90% success according to external audits by like of IUCN
Good that opposition of yesterday, government of today acknowledges success of previous govt
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Ministry of Health event supported by
@GallupPak
and facilitated through
@CDCgov
happening here in Islamabad
Detailed and deliberated discussion on mortality registration and overall CRVS
Only 5% deaths are registered
Cause of death reported are usually misreported
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Nadra issued over 25 million Covid certificates
At 100 Rs
2.5 billion PKR earned out of ppls pockets
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Kia motors did a sale of 100 billion in first year of operation in Pakistan
That's how big Pakistani potential is
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Food panda did sales of 40 billion Pkr
Considering 1000 PKR order size these are 40 million orders
Around 110,000 orders every day
7000 orders an hour
115 orders a minute
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51% of all overseas Pakistanis proceeded to Saudia, another 30% to UAE , another 8% to Oman
Why do the US , UK , Canada overseas Pakistanis become Spokesperson for the entire group despite being very very small proportion of the group ?
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More than 8 million people have used the Zu Peshawar BRT system in the first 3 months of operation.
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According to
@GallupPak
survey in June 2019 , Imran Khan approval rating shows slow decline from a high of 62 percent in August 18 to 45% in June 2019. This may be aftermath of tough Budget , yet to see how long lasting it wd b
@BBCUrdu
@jang_akhbar
@newsonepk
@geonews_urdu
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Anger at Imran Khan govt removal increasing in Pakistan
Majority now angry at removal of PTI govt
The trend is fast changing as the opposite was true before and on the eve of No Confidence motion being passed
Recent
@GallupPak
report on political weather in Pakistan
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Isn't it ironic that rich elite ( I claim no personal innocence) are sharing pictures and videos of homes in tourist areas while they advocate continuation of lockdown of these areas for commoners
Murree- Bhurban , Lahore ki garmi sey kuchh ghantey key fasley par
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BRT Peshawar
First hand experience
Wonderful experience
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Invested in this Takaful product 9 years ago
Every year paid 100k
Total paid 900k in 9 years
Today's nominal value is 850k
In this period banks pocketed thousands of billions in profit but products with common people money lost money frantically
Game is RIGGED
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Why is it that Pakistan can't be celebrated as a success case ?
In 1947 the country had a hundred or so factories , 1 university , less than 50 megawatt of electricity , its assets had been withheld by India and survived on loan from princes
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When you can't get GDP growth rate high just change the base and get as high rate as you want
PTI Economics
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67 percent increase in electricity price in 2 years of PTI govt
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2.5 crore travellers have traveled on BRT Peshawar in 6 months
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Despite reputation of being a begging bowl , Pakistan received around 15 times less foreign aid 2018 (US$0.36 billion), than what was received
by India (US$5 billion) & Bangladesh (US$5.5
billion). Most importantly, foreign aid to India &
Bangladesh has been rising snce 2004
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British Pakistani youth significantly more likely than Indian or black ethnic young ppl to be neither studying not working . Essentially they top in doing nothing.
Unfortunate reality .
Many of this class is wasting their time being worried about Pakistan. Whereas they should…
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Close to 40%fully vaccinated
Close to 65% partially vaccinated
Clap for Pakistan
Clap for Govt
Rising Pakistan!
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Amazon has registered an office in Pakistan under the name Amazon Data Services Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd. According to records of the SECP (Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan), Amazon’s Pakistan office will be led by Paul Andrew Macpherson, who will be the CEO
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Pakistan's performance in procuring vaccines is poor even among poor countries
Here is excerpt from ADB report about confirmed orders and Pakistan ranks below Bangladesh
Who is responsible for this ?
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Foreign conspiracy was about making IK leave
IK himself left
How is conspiracy defeated ?
Asking for a friend
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There is much that went right in recent years
Recently completed 400 kilometers in phase 1 of 500 kilometer long Kachhi Canal is now the longest irrigation canal in Pakistan. It stretches from the plains of South Punjab to the heights of eastern Balochistan
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@Hammad_Azhar
represents qualified class of young politicians who present significant grip on subject matters of economy , energy . We need more of ppl like him to bring the best oversight over private and bureaucratic decision
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Pakistan Post network !
Over 10,000 and reaching almost every union council in Pakistan
Amazing opportunity to exploit this network for social good !
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Peshawar Metro catered to 8 million trips in 3 months
Islamabad international airport catered to 5.2 million in 12 months
We have issue with govt spending on Peshawar Metro
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Elite Pakistanis nightmare
Rising Pakistan where poorest ppl have respect
Respect for SS and PMLN to have delivered 1st Mass Transit Train
All those wishing to blurt hatred on this tweet may kindly refrain
یہ لندن نیو یارک یا دبئی نہیں ہے یہ لاہور ہے
شکریہ محمد نوازشریف شکریہ شہبازشریف
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Despite odds Orange Train has completed 10 million riders today !
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World Bank Report says
Sindh has a feudal political economy in rural areas: 76 percent of families are landless and work
as tenants, while less than one percent of rural Sindhi families own landholdings of 50 acres or
more.
Wonder how right is that
Its quite bleak
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Around 50% of PTI current MNAs joined party 6 months before 2018 election from other parties
How can such a party have a moral issue with deserters ?
Self righteous behaviour and sense of entitlement لاڈلا پن has no end
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Even though token ,it's a reminder that trickle down economics fails so safety net provision is needed
4/ Covid vaccination; Pakistan vaccinated 75% a rare feat in the world let alone for poor country . We begged and borrowed vaccines , without destroying livelihood
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"In 2019, Pakistan exported a total of $26.6B, making it the number 67 exporter in the world.
We are number 5 in population but no 67 in exporting
That is the single biggest problem for the economy
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Only
2000 companies pay 75% of total taxes in Pakistan
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5/ stress on environmental issues beyond lip service . Billion tree sunami , miwaki forests , national parks expansion
6/ free floating exchange rate so that external impulses are auto corrected
7/ exports have finally grown after almost decade of stagnation
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8/ health insurance through health card. Landmark in welfare state. Already the largest health insurance scheme by govt
9/ iT sector served well , visible by rise in exports of IT services
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Metro bus in lahore was inaugurated on February 10, 2013 and has achieved highest ridership of 179,104 per day.
Till May 01, 2017 the system has transported 210 million passengers.
Going by this ridership would be total around 0.5 billion passengers now in 2023
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In a snap exit poll
@GallupPak
did with Voters in NA 249 today PPP and PML N were close to a tie and in at least one provincial assembly seat PPP ahead.
Given error margin we can't predict who won
The Pushto speaking voters left PTI to vote for PPP candidate (an ethnic pashtun)
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"DHA Karachi was originally made for military personnel and spread over 76.2 acres only.
Today, this society is spread across approximately 8,797 acres of land and continue to grow at a steady pace."
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roughly 40% of all soccer balls in the world are made in one Pakistani city: Sialkot.
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If you invested in stock market in 2017 100 Rs, today you would have around 60 in real terms
That's how disastrous the past 3 to 4 years have been for stock market
Disaster
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In a
@GallupPak
and PRIDE Pakistan
@drlubnashahnaz
joint report
37% of Pakistan's young generation are found to be neither working or in education.
The figure is 62% for women and 12% for men
Thats 21.8 million people untapped and a potential un-exploited
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Was shocked to see that a Toyota locally manufactured costing 2.5 million doesn't have
Automatic windows
Central locking
Shocking fleecing of consumers
How hard it is to regulate business
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"Both the Army Welfare Trust and Fauji Foundation have been exempted from the purview of the income tax law."
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As shared by
@ABMPildat
and printed in
@TheEconomist
Pakistan ranks 3rd top most in terms of normalcy with respect to Covid 19
A great success for
@ImranKhanPTI
Govt and for Pakistanis acknowledged world over.
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The absolute emptiness of Islamabad Airport makes one think that elite get away without criticism of infrastructure built for them regardless of economic pay offs associated with it.
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All the above are successes of Pakistan too . Why shy away from saying what went right in the country !
I only wished PTI had worked together with other stakeholders and treated them as partners not adversaries
Hoping for next govts to pick from here and take it fwd
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US & UK remittances were less than a quarter ( 25%)of all remittances sent this October
Canada represented another 1.5%
EU countries combined were less than 15%
45% remittances were sent by poor gulf migrants or those in Saudi Arabia
The more permanent the overseas…
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There are only 22k Pakistanis who have taxable income above 6mn
DHA Khi has 81k members.
Khi Gymkhana has 35000 members
Search on Pak wheels for 5million plus worth cars generates 3000 listings
In 2018 there were 8k SUV local made sold
7000 Paks own properties in dubai
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The so called extremely understaffed Ministry of Foreign Affairs has around 2500 employees
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If you invested in USD in Nov 2019 , 100 Rs you would have 113 Rs today
If you invested in Gold in Nov 2019 you would have 150 Rs
In stock market investment of 100 Rs in Nov 2019 , would have you now 119
If you had left without investing you would have in real terms 70 Rs now
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"The lower house of parliament approved income tax exemption for Fauji Foundation."
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Some people think they have time to do another job or business in addition to their current one. Others think they are busy all the time in their current occupation and cant think of taking an additional one.
Do you think you can take an additional job / employment
Yes I can take addl job
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No I am already busy
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I already do more than 1
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Pakistan constitutes Cambridge examinations largest school market in the world, with 150,000 candidates sitting their O Level and A Level examinations on an annual basis.
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10/ stress beyond brick and mortar. Attempting to bring systemic change. Stopping to do things just for heck of it, like building more schools or more roads. Pakistan needed some self correction in that regard
11/ cutting of media funding for channels . Media had become too
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75% Pakstanis do not read a book etc at all according to
@GallupPak
In the US 72% have read a book in past 12 months according to
@pewresearch
We need to support and encourage reading culture in Pakistan
This is esp so as technology makes reading easier and books accessible
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It's interesting that PTI Ajk got exactly same vote as PTI got in 2018
And so did PML Ajk
Interesting to see TLP got also the same proportion of votes as they did in 2018 Pakistan election.
It's also interesting that TLP got 400% more votes than JI
JI got 29k votes only
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In 2021 recent immigrants: Pakistan accounted for only 2.7% of immigrants .
India : 18.6% Nigeria 3%
Share of Pakistanis in immigrants to Canada actually fell from 3.4% to 2.7%
Exodus from Pakistan is a myth
But it's understandable because the elite think world revolves…
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Addicted to funding by the govt
Helped in consolidation of media
12/ Stress on austerity within govt . Pm travel etc showed govt should save
13/ stress on reducing foreign reliance for eg on reluctance to go to IMF or not being too cozy with US
14/ successful OIC conference
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198 firms contributing
50 percent of total exports
That's how small export culture in Pakistan is
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IK was made fun of but the current govt is going to spend 1.5 billion distributing chicken 🐔
Apparently close to 500,000 households have gotten these birds
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48% British Pakistanis are living on some sort of state support.
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SPI inflation on YoY increased by 19.7% in May 2021
Can the PTI defenders defend this ?
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All 5 major crops in past one year failed on all counts
Negative growth in
Area under cultivation
Total production
Yield
SBP says the performance has not been as bad in whole decade
Dont these numbers suggest a collapsed Rural economy
What are we doing to save Rural poor
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Turnout in Peshawar 1 was 72% for men , 50% for women
Highest overall turnout in KP
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The much awaited Green line in Karachi , the first metro for Pakistan largest city took , 7 years to complete.
It's cost 24 billion
This year alone CDA is spending more than this amount on building roads and interchanges
Fiscal accountability is extremely weak in Pakistan
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Govt enjoys support of a high 6 in 10 Pakistanis with respect to handling of
#COVID2019
Wonderful to see cross partisan support
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From 2005 to 2017
Indian export increase 217%
Bangladesh 250%
Vietnam 519%
Pakistan 50%
This is at the core of many economy and political economy problems for Pakistan
Less than needed attention paid on this
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PMLN gains massive 12% further votes as compared to 2018 election in by-election held today in
#NA75
Should be Food for thought for PTI and reason to celebrate for N
@MaryamNSharif
@MiftahIsmail
@Marriyum_A
@betterpakistan
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"“As an economic measure, we temporarily shut down our power generation systems” Sunday night, Dastgir said. When engineers tried to turn the systems back on, a “fluctuation in voltage” was observed, which “forced engineers to shut down the power grid” stations one by one."
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Just in one year electricity price for lowest economic strata has increased by 57.14%
LPG by 51%
Cooking oil 38%
Wheat 20%
That too when nominal per capita income declined for most
#PTIGovernment
unable to control inflation
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Myths we have been fed.
Quaid Azam took a salary of 10k PKR as governor general of Pakistan and not 1 Rs
Jinnah as pauper head of state image is wrong.
Head of state should be compensated according to his stature
Below is a National Archive Record cited by BBC Urdu.
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Many of Twitter class angry on mangoe trees chopping but will not talk about exploitation of farmer that benefits all of us A kilo mango sold in cities for 250 , farmer gets 50 Rs in most cases. That's the reason why mangoe farmers are preferring to sell and get out of business.
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Just for record 60% Pakistan does not get gas piped to their home
What many of us will experience is something that almost all Rural Pakistan experience every day for 70 years
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Religiosity on the rise in Covid Times in Pak
Could this be a long term shift in an already conservative society
Could this long term shift have implications for politics and society ?
Interesting poll findings from
@GallupPak
5th wave of perception tracker phone survey
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Some how these VIP cyclists are worth millions of lost revenue and inconvenience to thousands of men and women by shutting metro
Cycling is good exercise
But dont thrust your wisdom on ppl and claim benevolence
Dont play with lives of poor who have no way to stop you
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After 1 year Alhamdulilah net metering
Took 6 months to get solar ( chip shortage , supply chain global disruption )
6 months in net metering ( meter name issue , paper work , red tap despite having a very strong solar company using their muscle)
It should be easier than this
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With 4.2 million votes counted in Punjab ( for national assembly vote ) , PMLN now ahead of PTI in popular vote
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National Crimes Agency in UK was paid by Malik Riaz by selling Hyde Park 1
Hyde Park 1 was untill few years ago owned by none other than Nawaz Sharif son
The money that came from NSA was arranged by PTI Shahzad Akbar
The elite in the country are linked in infinite ways
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Pakistan at bottom in IMF growth projections
India highest
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Public is hands up against tyrinical CSS officers
Colonial masters worst crime is to leave us with these despots
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Dr Ashraf Ghani academic research was on state-building"
Clearly academics have no idea what they are saying
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Wonderful to see such on the ground work by young politicians
Those who are failing to find good reason why Pushtoons have voted twice in one go for same party breaking their electoral behaviour of 50 years may find some clues here
Politics is not stranded in Pakistan
6. Feedback passed on to the TransPeshawar team; I'm sure they will take action.
Again, worth recognising the personal interest of the CM
@IMMahmoodKhan
(his office has personally oversee completion & Secretary Shahab Ali Shah has burnt the midnight oil), PDA and TransPeshawar...
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While the UK government has a car pool of 45 for all ministries and departments, Sindh alone has around 25,000 official vehicles with generous petrol quotas.
Via Pervez Hodboy
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Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in Peshawar has achieved an impressive ridership of approximately 80 million people during the outgoing calendar year 2023, contributing to a total commuter of 215 million since its inception in August 2020
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Received 1200 USD
It's been 15 days , lots of documents sharing , emails, calls , whtsaps
No payment paid yet
Pakistani banking system is just an extension of govt red tape
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