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Raza Mohsin needed motor testing equipment for the @VLEKTRA factory. China was too expensive. A local engineer took an advance and delivered something that never worked. Then someone walked in with a different offer. No degree. No English. No CV. His only credential was 15 years of working alongside his electrician father. What happened next is the best argument I've heard for where Pakistan's real talent actually lives.

WOW! @Theintercept reviewed more than 12000 print articles and 5000 TV segments to check for biases on Israel-Palestine. I thought it would be bad. I had no idea it was THIS bad. No wonder Gaza killed what little credibility mianstream media had. In NYT, Israel's right to defend itself was invoked 99 times. Only once for Palestine. On CNN and MSNBC, it was invoked 755 times for Israel. But only 8 times for Palestine. Emotive words such as slaughter and massacre were used frequently when Israelis had been killed. They were NEVER used in print when Palestinians were killed. In Ukraine, 262 children were killed in the war, and it was mentioned 4223 times. In Palestine, more than 10,000 children were killed, but it was mentioned only 3632. The full article is in the subtweet. It's a MUST READ:

“People-to-people relations can ease India-Pakistan tensions because we have cultural links and we were once one nation. I strongly believe civil society contacts will ultimately help normalize ties with Pakistan; that should be tried more now." timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-sh…

Pakistan’s grid is doing something rare. Fossil has fallen from 66% to 44%. Nuclear is scaling. Solar is breaking out, wind is joining in & decentralised rooftop solar is scaling at an unprecedented pace. Meanwhile, hydro holds the system together as the generational shift begins. For two decades, Pakistan’s power mix barely moved. Fossil sat around 60–70%, hydro carried ~30%, and everything else was marginal. Then the energy transition began, and it didn’t follow the usual script. Nuclear moved first. From ~2% in 2000 to ~17% by 2025, it’s one of the few systems globally where nuclear share is clearly rising. That growth is deliberate, built, and running at high capacity, quietly strengthening the backbone of the grid. Wind edged in gradually. But the real disruption came from solar. From effectively zero to ~8% in a short window, driven less by policy and more by economics. High tariffs, unreliable supply, and cheap panels triggered a massive surge in behind-the-meter installs. That’s the key nuance. A large share of Pakistan’s solar boom sits off-grid and isn’t fully captured in official generation data. It makes the system look slower to change than it actually is, and makes building a clean dataset far more challenging than in most countries. Two very different forces are now moving together. Nuclear is scaling from the top down, engineered and centralised. Solar is spreading from the bottom up, reactive and decentralised. They’re not competing. They’re stacking. Hydro sits in the middle, doing what it has always done, balancing and stabilising the system. Fossil is still large and still necessary, but it’s no longer growing. From ~66% down to ~44%, it’s clearly losing ground. Pakistan hasn’t followed a clean transition pathway. It’s been pushed into change by cost, constraints, and demand. The result isn’t one technology replacing another. It’s a system being reshaped from multiple directions at once. Hydro anchors. Nuclear scales. Solar breaks out. Wind warms up. Fossil fills what’s left. Not merely a transition. A system under pressure, starting to bend.

Pakistan may be accidentally building one of the world’s first decentralised #solar economies. The craziest part? Real scale barely shows in official stats. Imported 51.5 GW solar panels by late 2025—nearly = entire grid. Yet registered net-metered rooftop solar just 5.3–6.8 GW. What makes this story so extraordinary is the speed. In only a few years, Pakistan appears to have gone from a relatively minor solar market to potentially sourcing around a quarter of its electricity from solar once distributed generation is included. 👉 ~16.6–17 GW solar imports in 2024 👉 ~18 GW solar imports in 2025 👉 ~51.5 GW cumulative imports by late 2025 👉 Rooftop solar: ~1.3 GW → 4.1 GW in 2024 👉 ~5.3–6.8 GW registered rooftop solar in 2025 👉 24+ GW estimated behind-the-meter/off-grid 👉 Solar potentially ~25% of actual electricity use The massive gap between imported panels and officially registered systems strongly suggests tens of gigawatts are now operating quietly on homes, farms, factories and businesses across the country. This increasingly looks less like a normal energy transition and more like large-scale consumer-led grid defection. And economics is driving nearly all of it. Electricity tariffs surged. Diesel prices climbed. Blackouts remained common. Meanwhile ultra-cheap Chinese solar panels and falling battery prices made self-generation economically irresistible. So millions effectively made the same calculation: Generate your own power, or remain trapped inside an expensive and unstable system. Once solar becomes cheaper than the grid itself, adoption can move faster than governments, utilities and even official statistics can keep up with. This isn’t gradual transition by any stretch. It may ultimately become a blueprint for how energy-poor nations break free from legacy old-world energy systems dominated by fossil fuels and increasingly expensive centralised power. It’s decentralisation at escape velocity. This is #Bettrification.

The biggest problem with the NFC award (which once you include AJK and GB and other payments comes to 62% of the divisible pool) is that as you try to address the federal deficit, who enrich the provinces and impoverish the people even more. For example, to finance a deficit of Rs 10, the federal government has to impose additional taxes on citizens of Rs 25, and give extra Rs 15 (or 60% of taxes) to the provinces, which are already in surplus. This extra Rs 15 then enables provinces to buy private jets, escalate the price of pipeline and road projects and have their leaders build palaces outside Pakistan. And the people of Pakistan have to pay 18% tax on soap, packaged milk, clothing, pencils and edible oil and are getting poorer due to heavy taxation.

You are, MashaAllah, doing great research work. One must appreciate that. But Let’s have first complete picture, Miss Zehra. When NFC share of provinces was increased from 47 paisa to 57.5 paisa of every rupee in 2010, it had also been decided to increase FBR TAX TO GDP ratio from 10% in 2010 to 15% in 2015 to compensate the hit to federal exchequer. However, after 16 years it’s still around 10%. That’s why the whole nation is in pain. That’s why FBR is under scrutiny and that’s why petroleum levy rate today is Rs118 per litre on petrol.

🇺🇸🇪🇺 The food you eat every day is banned in Europe. Not some of it. Most of it. American strawberries are sprayed with pesticides linked to hormone disruption and cancer that are banned across Europe. Drop one in salt water and see what comes out. American white bread contains potassium bromate, a cancer-linked chemical banned in the EU, Canada, China, and India. The FDA hasn't reviewed it since 1973. Same products. Different standards. And Americans eat this every single day. Watch the video. Source: @CoryBOnChain

Mosques, Muslim Homes, and Meat Shops Targeted Across Multiple West Bengal Districts Following Election Results, Says APCR Read: theobserverpost.com/mosques-muslim…

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Israeli settlers forced a Palestinian family to exhume their father's body from a freshly dug grave in the occupied West Bank, claiming the cemetery land was part of their settlement reut.rs/4da35cR

Is this how you plan to drive “Bhoi” out? By setting Bengal on fire? What unfolded in Khejuri’s Nichkasba GP, Hijli Sharif is nothing short of barbaric. Over 60 shops were torched by BJP-backed miscreants, destroying the livelihoods of innocent people overnight. Hindu-owned shops, Muslim-owned shops, it made no difference. This was not an attack on any one community; it was a calculated assault on Bengal’s social harmony, democratic fabric and the ordinary citizens who simply want to live in peace. This is the true face of BJP’s politics: hatred, intimidation and destruction. Bengal will never surrender to such violence. Those responsible for this shameful act must be identified and brought to justice at the earliest. @WBPolice @HMOIndia @PMOIndia @narendramodi

Despite the war, Iran decides to send its men’s national team to the US to take part in the 2026 World Cup next month. But, Modi didn't let Indian cricket team travel to Pakistan to play the 2025 Asia Cup. Wars should be fought between militaries, Not between players and actors!

The Diplomat: Pakistan’s Rising Role in West Asia’s Shifting Geopolitical Landscape Irrespective of the outcomes of the U.S.-Iran talks, Pakistan’s expanded role in West Asia as a security stabilizer and an assertive diplomatic actor is here to stay. Link below

#RTI law is being weakened by #courts in #Pakistan. Here I explain the #IHC Judgment, whereby constitutional bodies have been wrongly excluded from the purview of Right of Access to Information Act 2017. |youtu.be/d4VM3p8UyOU?si… via @YouTube @CMShehbaz @TararAttaullah #RTI

🚨🇮🇱🇺🇸Israel just told Washington to bomb Iran's energy infrastructure into total destruction in 24 hours... Per Israeli Channel 12, Israel has conveyed a message to the U.S. advocating for a decisive shift in objective. Israeli officials are urging the U.S. to prioritize the complete destruction of Iran's energy infrastructure as the move that breaks the current stalemate. The Israeli position, as relayed by these sources, suggests the operation could be completed within a 24-hour window. The rationale is that rapid and total neutralization of Iran's energy sector would effectively cripple the economy, leaving Tehran with no choice but to enter negotiations in a submissive state. This is the maximum-pressure scenario Netanyahu's government has been pushing since the ceasefire began, and the timing is no accident. Iran has signaled it's moving toward accepting the U.S. memorandum of understanding with modifications. The diplomatic track is converging. Trump is six days from the China summit and racing to close a deal he can present to Xi as a foreign policy victory. Israel's intervention is designed to derail exactly that outcome. A 24-hour total destruction of Iranian energy infrastructure would be a strategic catastrophe that ends any possibility of Iran agreeing to anything close to a face-saving deal. It would also drive global oil to levels that crash economies worldwide. Source: Israeli Channel 12

WORLD MUST TAKE ACTION AGAINST INDIA 🚨🇮🇳 Indian forces are targeting Christians on a daily basis and supporting Hindutva goons who kill Muslims, Christians, and other minorities daily. A video also surfaced showing hindutva BJP member calling for no food be given to Muslims.

Remember the hostages who were shot to death by the IDF? One of the soldiers who killed them explained to the bereaved mother why it happened. He said, “Males, regardless of their age, we don’t mess around, we kill them right away. They even told us, if it’s a woman or a child, make the judgment call yourselves, because things happen.”

Suvendu Adhikari, who has been calling for ‘Gaza’ like genocide of Muslims in India, is Modi’s new Chief Minister of state of West Bengal.

This Indian politician is calling for the genocide of Muslims in India, just as Israel is genocide against Palestinians. He says: "Just as Israel taught a lesson (to Muslims), India's 1 billion Hindus should unite and teach a lesson to Muslims." Shame on such Hate. 💔

One of the many tragedies of this war is that before the war began the U.S. Intel Community, including CIA, was in agreement that Iran wasn't developing a nuclear weapon & that Iran would target U.S. bases in the region & shut down the Strait of Hormuz if they were attacked by Israel & the U.S. The IC also properly assessed that targeting the Iranian leadership would strengthen the regime and embolden the hardliners. Despite the professionalism & accuracy of the IC, the narrative & agenda spun by a foreign government- Israel, won the argument & forced us into this war. We need to understand exactly how this happened to ensure we are never put in this position again.