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بلوچ نیشنل موومنٹ کے راہنما ڈاکٹر نسیم بلوچ کے ساتھ بیٹھے قاسم خان (عمران خان کے بیٹے) نے پاکستان میں مبینہ ’’انسانی حقوق کی خلاف ورزیوں‘‘ کا حوالہ دیتے ہوئے یورپی یونین سے پاکستان کی GSP پلس حیثیت ختم کرنے کا مطالبہ کر دیا۔ تاہم بطور مثال وہ صرف اپنے والد عمران خان (سابق وزیراعظم) کی قید ہی پیش کر سکے۔

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Your brain might say 300, but it isn’t. So what is it?

Mike Hesson in the Press conference, "We rested few first choice players in this series like Babar Azam to give Youngsters a chance. And we've been able to give 6 youngsters a chance. The motive of this series was to build some new ones."

@hdrnssr Fake news I live in Dubai since 2002 Been a broker since 2006 Owner of a major brokerage firm Brn# 23272 Ohana developer launched and sold out 6b worth of inventory Emaar launched Emaar south apartments 55% sold out Yes situation is unusual but no panic

My friend who works in real estate in Dubai told me there are distress sales everywhere. Prices are down ~20%, and developers, even the big ones, are desperate for buyers to the point of offering unbelievable payment plans, and still almost no takers.

@ayeshaijazkhan Fake news I live in Dubai No panic No massive layoffs

Spoke to a friend who arrived from Dubai this morning. She says it's like living in a war zone, and can't say anything there. Also told me about a hotel in Deira where she knew a lot of Pakistani workers -- they've all been laid off and are going back to Pakistan because hotel occupancy is currently at 12% and all bookings for April have been cancelled. You won't hear this from the Dubai Media Office. So, you're welcome.

Mian Shehbaz Sharif’s government decided to increase petrol and diesel prices by Rs 55 per litre each. This is both the highest single increase ever and the highest price level for both petrol and diesel. And it will of course bring in huge increase in inflation. In Pakistan petrol and diesel prices are set every 15 days. The last price increase came on February 28 for the period of March 1 to March 15. The prices are set according to the prices in Singapore’s Platt index. The government took the average Platt price for petrol and diesel from Feb 15 to Feb 28 and added petroleum levy and other incidentals and came up with a price. It does it because the inventory cost of petrol and diesel in Pakistan sold by oil companies in the first fortnight of March is based on international prices that existed before Feb 28 when companies bought the products from international markets. Now because of the heavy increase in international oil prices, there was an expectation in the market of a large increase in prices for the period of March 15 to March 31. So consumers started filling their tanks, and petrol pumps and oil companies also started hoarding in the expectation of price increases and windfall profits. The government felt compelled to increase prices now to stave off a shortage. (The other option would have been to credibly announce that they would reduce petroleum levy from March 15 onwards so that the final consumer price will not increase. This would also have staved off hoarding but fiscal prudence and IMF wouldn’t have allowed this. A final option would have been better monitoring of oil companies and petrol pumps, but the government doesn’t have faith in its own monitoring apparatus ). So the government decided to raise prices. However instead of just increasing Petroleum Levy by Rs 55 per litre for this week and committing to reduce it back to the original rate from March 15, so that the expectation about a price increase on March 15 ended, it raised the prices for oil companies and gave them windfall profits. This is beyond comprehension. The government raised petroleum levy by Rs 20 per litre on petrol and gave Rs 35 extra profit to oil companies, but in the case of diesel it reduced the levy by Rs 20 per litre and gave the oil companies extra profit of Rs 70 per litre. This is really just giving huge profits to oil companies at the cost of consumers and government. The oil companies had already bought the petrol and diesel being sold today before Feb 28 at lower prices. And their costs plus profits were already being covered by the prices set originally for March 1 to March 15. There was absolutely no reason to increase their prices and allow them excessive profits. This is just taking advantage of a crisis and allowing them excessive profits. This is similar to last year’s allowing of sugar millers to export sugar and increase sugar mills’ profit at the cost of the public. This time the government allowed excessive profit to oil companies. It’s always large companies over the people. To stave off shortages it should have either increased petroleum levy for a week or done better monitoring of oil companies and petrol pumps. But it chose to do a favour to oil companies. The second point I want to make is about joint sacrifice. Due to this war the price of oil has risen and the increase in cost of petrol and other things is inevitable. If not now, prices had to increase by March 15. The government has again asked the people to tighten their belt and sacrifice. Pakistani people have already gotten poorer by 12% over the last 6 years. But what about the government’s own belt tightening? How about cutting fuel allowance of senior bureaucrats by 10%. How about asking ministers (who have unlimited fuel allowance) to also pay just 10% of their own fuel. This would suggest some shared sacrifice. But when the government only asks people to sacrifice, and continues its spendthrift ways, it just shows it’s own بے حسی

@ThePakistanExp1 55 Increase apologisers

Imran Khan's fuel subsidy was not a good thing

@iqrarulhassan Exactly .. so who's the problem nawaz imran or general ? They couldn't control neither nawaz or imran.. currently controlling SS then they will topple him as well .. Focus on the problem

@junaid_ary The generals had also toppled Nawaz Sharif’s government three times… if this is the criteria

جو آدمی وزیراعظم ہوتے ہوئے ایک کرپٹ جرنیل کے سامنے لیٹ گیا تھا وہ دنیا کے سامنے کیا کھڑا ہو گا۔ رمضان کے مہینے میں اللہ کو گواہ بنا کر بتائیں کہ جب جنرل عاصم (پاپا جونز والے) کی کرپشن کے ثبوت عمران خان کے سامنے آئے تو پانچ منٹ کی میٹنگ کے بعد عمران خان نے انہیں کلین چٹ کیوں دی؟

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Pakistan's generals are now facing the fallout of their flawed Taliban strategy, writes @mihirssharma (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@asmashirazi Fake news

Saudi officials abandoned us and redirected its air defense to protect Israel .

@BRICSinfo @grok is it true

@SouthAsiaIndex @grok is it true ?

Just IN:— Pakistan's leading news channel Geo News has been hacked, is currently displaying messages from "Mossad".

@caelnar11617 @grok which movie is this?

@spectatorindex @grok is it true ?

BREAKING: IRAN CONFIRMS SUPREME LEADER HAS BEEN KILLED

@iihtishamm @grok is this true ?

Breaking News 🚨 Iran strikes renowned Burj Al-Arab hotel in Dubai, UAE.

@NiohBerg Is it latest now @grok

Shiraz tonight. EVERYONE IS OUT.

اے آر وائی اینڈ ماز ڈیولپمنٹس کا دبئی میں شاندار منصوبے براری پیلس کی تعمیرات کا آغاز #ARYNews