Erica Brown

🚨CPEC— China Pakistan Exploitation Corridor. All-weather & deep-rooted Pakistan-China ties have increased Pak’s dependency on China—the only long-term outcome. The economy crumbles as Chinese influence only grows with no potential long-term benefits. 1/3 @Solomony

The rural economy is bleeding while leaders stay obsessed with geopolitics and strategic games instead of protecting the people feeding the country. 2/2

#Pakistan keeps trying to prove itself indispensable to #US, Saudis but when will it become indispensable to its own farmers? Crops have ripened, farmers are forced to sell below production cost because exports collapsed after border closures with #Afghanistan. 1/2 @Taimur_Laal

Hospitals remain broken, electricity is unaffordable, jobs disappear, and inflation keeps rising. The public is treated like an ATM machine to fund corruption, debt repayments, and the luxurious lifestyles of a ruling class disconnected from the people. 2/2

The biggest lie in #Pakistan is that more taxes will improve people’s lives. Under the #Shehbaz govt, record taxes were collected, yet the first promise made to the #IMF was more fuel and gas hikes. 1/2 @abbasnasir59 @Asad_Ashah

EXCLUSIVE: Exiled Afghan MP @Mariamistan tells me that "Pakistan is an insecure country. They steal Indian & Afghan culture, and that Pakistan's history is so weak that they name their missiles after Afghans." Full interview on my YT channel -youtube.com/watch?v=79BtUA…

Pak is already encircled by four risky internal and external conflicts 360 degrees: TTP in the north, BLA in the south, India in the east and AFG in west. But that is not enuf for our wonky warriors and they are inserting us smack into the middle of deadlier middle-east conflicts: Israeli-Arab, Iran-Arab and intra-Arab ones. The rhetoric by regime lackeys: middle-power, net security, stability and peace provider. The reality: a nuke-armed state of 250 million with a huge youth bulge facing collapsing security, economy and politics trying to hide these failure behind the allure of risky external ties which will further bust its security, economy and politics.

Sustainable Development Goal 6 calls for universal access to clean water. Pakistan signed onto these commitments, but ordinary citizens are still forced into daily humiliation for something that should already be guaranteed. 2/2

people waiting for hours around water tankers has become one of the symbols of governance failure in #Pakistan govt promised water infrastructure reforms, urban planning, public welfare, entire communities still depend on tanker mafia. 1/2 @nadeemhaque @husainhaqqani

#Khadija Baloch’s child needs to travel to Karachi every two months for treatment, yet now her medical care is disrupted while her mother remains in detention. At such a young age, being forced to fight illness, fear, and the cruelty of the system all at once. 2/2 @Terror_Alarm

innocent little girl battling an autoimmune disorder should be receiving treatment and care, not suffering because her mother has allegedly become another victim of #Pakistan’s growing crisis of enforced disappearances involving Baloch women. 1/2 @baloch_ambreen @JasimBaloch1988

That means per capita income has fallen in real terms. when an economy grows slower than its people, is it actually growing at all? Behind the statistics are rising prices, shrinking purchasing power, and households struggling just to keep pace with inflation. 2/2

🚨Government data shows #Pakistan’s average economic growth after the regime change has hovered around 2.3% annually over four years — below population growth. That means per capita income has fallen in real terms. 1/2 @AFGDefense @husainhaqqani

Many now argue that instead of improving conditions, the post–#Imran Khan period has seen continued stagnation where growth remains weak, and household pressure has intensified Ultimately, people are asking a simple question: where is the promised economic turnaround? 3/3

Instead, the same structural problems remain—a narrow tax base, rising burden on salaried workers, weak export competitiveness, and delayed reforms in agriculture and property taxation. 2/3

🚨#Pakistan’s economy was already under pressure, but the promise of the #Shehbaz government’s manifesto was reform, stability, and relief. 1/3 @Khalil_a_hassan @awais_hameed @Ahsan_Kheshgi

In today’s #Pakistan, punishment often seems harsher for those who challenge the establishment than for those who cooperate with it. 2/2 @faizannriaz

Some politicians return from exile and recover fortunes. Others sit in prison cells because they refused to become compliant. That contrast alone explains why millions of #Pakistanis believe the issue is not accountability, but loyalty to power. 1/2 @oulosP

@AFGDefense That is the painful reality many people see today: those demanding peace are treated as threats, while those who picked up weapons are eventually accommodated. 3/3 @hzomlot

#PTM voices calling for rights and accountability face arrests, pressure, and disappearances, while armed groups that once fought the state later return through negotiations and peace deals.2/3 @AFGDefense

Today in #KPK and especially in the tribal areas, innocent people who reject militancy and ask for dialogue, peace, and justice often end up behind bars. 1/3 @husainhaqqani @asimjaan