Noor

𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭 — 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

Every major economic opportunity in Pakistan was turned into a rent-seeking scheme for the elite. 1. Pakistan borrows billions. Instead of building exports, industry, and skilled human capital, the money disappears into mega-projects loaded with commissions. Result: Every few years, Pakistan returns to the IMF with a begging bowl — while the elite parks wealth offshore. 2. Pakistan’s industry needed cheap electricity to compete globally. Instead, the system rewarded IPPs and guaranteed capacity payments for a connected few. Result: IPP owners got richer. Industry got crushed under expensive power. Exports stagnated. 3. Farmers needed affordable fertiliser. Gas subsidies were supposed to support agriculture. Instead, subsidies became a pipeline for elite profits. Result: Fertiliser cartels thrived. Agricultural productivity and exports barely moved. 4. Pakistan could have become a regional trade corridor linking Afghanistan and Central Asia. Instead, transit trade became a smuggling and money-laundering racket. Result: Dollar flight, black markets, trade deficits, and a stagnant economy. 5. Pakistan needed world-class education and employable skills. Instead, degree factories multiplied while public universities decayed. Result: Over 75,000 IT graduates every year — fewer than 5,000 employable. The tragedy of Pakistan is not lack of opportunity. It is that every opportunity became a business model for extraction instead of national growth. We now have another opportunity with Pakistan's new found place at the center of world diplomacy and importance -- let's not squander this!

Incentives explain outcomes

I wish they showed me stuff like this in school.

How do you find peace ✨

Do not search for the meaning of life, create it. The world has no plan for you; you must become your own purpose.

Loving the Pakistani Spirit here 😘🇵🇰❤️

A claim circulates periodically that FBR’s 25,000+ workforce is unjustified because “96% of taxes are collected automatically.” This deserves a serious, evidence-based response. Because the answer matters for how Pakistanis understand their tax system and shapes their subsequent compliance behaviors. A thread. 🧵 #Pakistan #TaxPolicy #TaxAdministration #PublicFinance

Your parents are getting older at 75 and they haven’t told you how scared they are. They are not dying, or becoming a problem, or of being the reason you’re stressed, the reason your money is tight, the reason your patience runs out. They watch you build your life and they quietly pray they are not in the way of it. That silence you mistake for peace, it isn’t always peace. Sometimes it’s a 70-year-old man swallowing his needs because he doesn’t want to be a burden to the child he suffered to raise, sometimes it’s a 68-year-old woman who once moved mountains for her family, now unable to move without help, smiling so you don’t worry. They have already grieved the version of themselves that was strong, they did that alone, quietly, at night. What they have left is you. Not your money, not your success, you. Your voice on the phone, your presence in the room, the way you look at them like they still matter, like they are not just a responsibility to manage but a person to love. One day there will be no one left to call you by the name they gave you, in the voice that first said it, no one who remembers who you were before the world got to you. That day is coming, you don’t know when. So before it arrives, go home, sit down, put the phone away, let them talk. The chair will empty, make sure you left nothing unsaid. Goodnight

i need to walk again. i need to take photos again. i need to read again. i need to journal again. i need to watch movies again. but most importantly i need to stop losing myself.

@Mishi_2210 95

Tell me the Number 99.9% Will fail

@ghadaa231 .

Let’s break the algorithm — reply with a dot. Just a dot

Watching an old man sketch by the riverbank in Japan. Almost forgot this is the whole point.

@yousef_ki1 .

If you see this video, put a dot to break the algorithm.

@xmubashir Noooooooo Shoot me with an arrow but not with thisss

@NMallik_ Please speak

" DFA is therefore submitted for your kind perusal and approval as deemed appropriate"

@saadahsan Just the thought of it makes me want to dig a pit and disappear in it Once I had a boss who wouldn’t let me write a note sheet without getting it approved prior, the approval would happen after 20 redrafts PTSD striking in 3,2,1

@NMallik_ This gives me horrible flashbacks. There's an Ambassador Sb who used to make us reprint DFA's after making corrections word by word.

Having to say "as per my previous email" instead of challenging them to a duel.

Working Saturdays On top of a 55hr workweek mon-fri

Taking the office home with you in WhatsApp. Entertaining entitledness at ever single am and pm.