Noor Ul Hassan

@KhizarKahloon That's great...looking forward to its launch

Portfolio360 update: Apologies for the delay in the launch of (web) application. Obtaining the PSX license and integrating data from authorized vendors took some time. In the meantime, I’ve also enhanced the scope of platform’s functionality. Launching soon in February!

اس وقت پی ٹی آئی کے اس سونگ نے دھوم مچائی ہوئی ہے،ویڈیو آڈیو اور میوزک اے آئی ہے لیکن یہ لکھا کس نے ہے؟ گانے کا نام ہے "یہ لازمی ہے سوال ہوگا جواب ہوگا کبھی تو پورا خواب ہوگا" کس نے لکھا ہے یہ؟

The Oligarchs Who Ate Pakistan From PIA and Steel Mills to banks, power, media and land, how the same families captured everything If you really want to understand who runs Pakistan, it is not enough to look at who sits in cabinet or who appears on talk shows. You have to follow the money. Over the past few weeks two things have laid the truth bare. One is the IMF’s new report, which quietly admits that a small circle of “privileged entities” is draining away up to six and a half percent of our GDP every single year. The other is the so called sale of PIA that the government has been celebrating on television. On paper the PIA story looks like a win. A consortium led by Arif Habib has won a televised auction for 75 percent of the national airline with a bid of 135 billion rupees. Officials and friendly anchors are calling it a landmark reform, proof that Pakistan can finally get rid of “loss making” state companies. Many headlines repeat the same line. PIA sold for Rs135 billion after competitive bidding. When you look at the structure of the deal, the 135 billion rupee figure starts to fall apart. In any normal privatisation there are two separate numbers. One is the price the buyer pays the government for the shares. The other is the money the buyer then chooses to invest into the company it has just acquired. Here those two things have been lumped together and advertised as if they are the same. Only a very small slice of the 135 billion rupees actually goes to the state. Roughly 10 billion rupees is the equity cheque the government will receive in exchange for handing over 75 percent of PIA. The remaining 125 billion rupees is money the new owners will put into PIA itself for new planes, working capital and balance sheet repairs. Once they own the airline, that money belongs to them. It increases the value of their own asset. It does not compensate the public for decades of mismanagement or for the billions poured into PIA over the years. At the same time most of PIA’s old debt has been shifted into a separate holding company. That vehicle is still on the state’s books. Ordinary Pakistanis will continue to service that old debt through their taxes, through higher prices and through cuts to other spending. So what does the deal really do? It gives majority control of a cleaned up airline to an already powerful group, for a relatively tiny payment to the treasury, while the public keeps the bad loans. That is the first reason this sale matters. It exposes the formula that has been quietly used again and again. Losses are socialised. Profits and future upside are privatised. The second reason is that PIA is not an isolated case. It sits inside a pattern that stretches across almost every strategic sector. Take Pakistan Steel Mills. This was once a symbol of industrial ambition. Built with Soviet assistance on the outskirts of Karachi, it produced over a million tonnes of steel in good years. When the government tried to sell it cheaply in 2006, the Supreme Court blocked the transaction. After that, the mill was never really allowed to recover. Gas supply was reduced and eventually cut. Production fell to zero. Recruitment continued on political grounds even as losses piled up. In 2024 the government finally declared that PSM would be closed and that its land would be “repurposed.” Today officials and investors speak openly about using that land for new industrial zones and export projects. The workers have been pushed out. The location and the infrastructure remain. Once again the message is the same. If an asset cannot be grabbed outright at a bargain price, it can be run into the ground and cleared out to make room for something new under different ownership. Look at the banking sector. A small group of conglomerates controls most of the big private banks. That means they decide who gets loans and on what terms. If you are part of that club, capital is available. If you are not, you stay small or you never get started. Look at electricity. Private power producers, many of them connected to the same families, sit on long term contracts that guarantee them “capacity payments” even when their plants are producing more power than the system needs. The result is a huge circular debt, power bills that crush households and small businesses and a flow of guaranteed money to a few producers who carry far less risk than they should. Look at exports. Textiles are the backbone of Pakistan’s foreign earnings. Here again a handful of groups sit at the centre. They own spinning mills, weaving units, garment factories, banks, insurance companies and real estate. Their control over dollars earned and dollars held gives them leverage over macroeconomic policy itself in a country that constantly runs short of foreign exchange. Look at the media. Many of the biggest television channels and newspapers are embedded inside wider business empires. They sell toothpaste, run ISP networks, operate fast food franchises, manufacture packaging and more. When those same outlets cover privatisations or IMF programmes, they do so from within that web of interests. Some topics become taboo. Some angles are softened. Government advertising money is used to reward friendly coverage and punish dissent. The public rarely gets a clear explanation of who benefits and who pays. Then look at the military’s commercial footprint. Housing schemes in every major city. Fertiliser plants, cement factories, cereal brands, banks, power projects. Officially these are “welfare” organisations. In reality they are some of the largest business players in the country, enjoying privileged access to land and contracts and enjoying a level of protection from scrutiny that no private firm can dream of. Set all of this beside the IMF’s estimate that elite capture and governance failures are costing Pakistan five to six and a half percent of GDP a year. It becomes very hard to keep pretending that we are dealing with random bad luck. The PIA sale and the slow killing of Pakistan Steel Mills are not accidents that happened in a vacuum. They are what happens when a system is designed to protect the incomes of a narrow class and to send the bill to everyone else. That is why PIA is such a powerful symbol right now. For older Pakistanis it carries memories of a time when the country could run a serious airline, one that trained Emirates and opened routes to China. For younger Pakistanis it has become a byword for dysfunction. In the space of a few days it has also become a live example of how “reform” is used to finish a job that politics and patronage began. You are being told that PIA was sold for 135 billion rupees. You are not being told that only about 10 billion of that reaches the treasury. You are being told that decades of bleeding the airline are finally over. You are not being told that the old debts will still sit on the public’s shoulders. You are being told that private ownership will make everything efficient. You are not being asked whether it matters that the new owners are not some neutral outside investor but one more node in the same small network that already dominates finance, industry and media. “The Oligarchs Who Ate Pakistan” is not just a provocative title. It is a description of how the country is being run. They ate PIA and left the bones. They starved Steel Mills and kept the land. They sit in the boardrooms that decide who gets loans, who gets contracts and who gets bailed out. They shape the power contracts that show up in your monthly bill. They own many of the microphones that tell you there was “no alternative.” There are alternatives. Other countries with state airlines, utilities and mills manage them without turning them into personal piggy banks. Pakistan itself did so in earlier decades. The point of laying all this out is not to induce despair but to clear away excuses. Once you see who has been eating and at whose expense, it becomes harder for anyone to sell the next PIA or the next Steel Mills as an act of national salvation. Research article available below👇

Sakib Sherani: “I have been covering the economy for the past thirty years; I have never seen such distress before as I have seen in these three years. - The growth rate of 1.7% is the lowest growth rate in Pakistan’s history. Investment has reached its lowest level. - The poverty rate has reached 45%; this is the highest level in thirty years. - Unemployment has reached 22%.” Listen to Sakib give the numbers - they don’t lie. Yup, such is the stability.

@MeherBanoQ @ZainHQ Stay strong....this fascism must stop...

My sister in law @ZainHQ wife has been picked up from near our home by masked men in plain clothes and multiple cars. Two cars blocked her car and took her away forcefully. They have not been able to break us for the last year and half despite all kinds of threats and are now resorting to such low level tactics. Mine & my family’s faith in Allah is unbreakable. He will see us & Pakistan through this fascism.

@rayasatrung Totally agreed

@Bernadotte22 Stay strong

@eyesmithca stay safe

I am grateful to Allah for giving my people strength & courage to rise against tyranny. I want to thank all our people who came to our Islamabad jalsa overcoming all obstructions & impediments placed along the way. You have all broken the shackles of fear to stand up & fight for Haqeeqi Azadi. I am proud of each & everyone of you. We will succeed in our struggle inshaAllah as we keep our belief in “اِیَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَ اِیَّاكَ نَسْتَعِیْن”

"سانجھے بچے " یہ دو تصویریں پچھلے دو دن کی ہیں - ایک ہی ملک کے دو بچے ہیں - ایک سوشل میڈیا انفلوینسر ہے - دوسرا ریاست زدہ وکٹم ہے - ایک بچہ سوشل میڈیا پر وڈیوز اور ٹک ٹاک بناتا ہے - دوسرا بچہ سوشل میڈیا پر اپنے باپ کیلئے آواز اٹھانا چاہتا ہے - دونوں بچے ہمیں بڑے عزیز ہیں - لیکن ایک بچے کا عزیز اس کے قریب نہیں ہے - وہ یتیم ہے کہ نہیں ' یہ یقین نہیں ہے - اس کی کوئی تشفی کرے ' ایسا کوئی حکیم نہیں ہے - اس کا باپ چھے سال سے اس کے ہم نشیں نہیں ہے - وہ لاپتہ ہے اور کیا وہ وہ کبھی آئیگا ' اس کی اس بچے کو امید نہیں ہے - ایک بچے کیلئے یہ ریاست سایہ نما ہے اور دوسرے بچے کیلئے یہ ریاست سنڈریلا کی سوتیلی ماں ہے - بچے سب کے سانجھے ہیں ' اس بات کا بس گماں ہے - مدثر بابا کو رہا کرو' اس کم سن کی بس یہی توتلی زباں ہے - اتنا اندھیرا کیوں یہاں ہے ؟ کتنا مختلف دو بچوں کا جہاں ہے - "فلَک نے اُن کو عطا کی ہے خواجگی کہ جنھیں خبر نہیں روشِ بندہ پروری کیا ہے" "قلم کی جسارت وقاص نواز" #FindNaaruAlive @salmanAraja @ImaanZHazir @MoeedNj

Stop this fascism and release him. #ReleaseAunAliKhosa

اڈیالہ جیل میں عمران خان کو مہیا کیے گئے کمرے کی تصویر منظر عام پر آگئی۔ سابق وزیراعظم اس کمرے میں 300 سے زائد دنوں سے پابند سلاسل ہیں۔

Many lessons for Pakistani establishment that the Indian elections offered: - Democratic process is a self correcting medium, provided it’s allowed to run its course without interference. - One billion total voters in India yet elections held smoothly & on time. We could not hold the elections on time & through EVMs with just a fraction of total voters. - The wisdom of the masses is higher than the wisdom of 4 or 5 ppl. - There is no report of even a concept of form 45 or form 47 forgeries in India. - The people of India today feel empowered and their trust in their own democratic process has enhanced. Our ppl feel a sense of betrayal due to their stolen mandate.

@moodee_q MashaAllah.....congratulations and best wishes for many more successful years ahead for Momina

My lovely daughter Momina graduated her high school from one of the best high schools in the #USA. Having raised her as a single parent, this has been such an emotional moment. Couldn’t be more proud of her and couldn’t be more grateful to Allah, my family and my faith. #gratitude #Alhamdullillah

اڈیالہ جیل میں ناحق قید بانی چئیرمین تحریک انصاف عمران خان کا خصوصی پیغام (29 مئی 2024) غلامی لوگوں کو چھوٹا کر دیتی ہے اور چھوٹے لوگ کبھی بڑا کام نہیں کر سکتے ۔ انسان کی غیرت اور آزادی مل کر اسے ایک بڑا انسان بناتے ہیں ۔ نبیِ محترم ﷺ دنیا کے سب سے بڑے انسان اور سب سے بڑے Achiever ہیں ۔ انہوں نے لَآ اِلٰہَ اِلَّا اللہُ کا کلمہ پڑھوا کر اپنے لوگوں کو آزاد کر دیااور اس آزادی نے ان لوگوں کو جنہیں دنیا اَن پڑھ اور بَدُو کہہ کر پکارا کرتی تھی انہیں دنیا کی سب سے عظیم اور طاقتور ترین قوم بنا دیا ۔ اس وقت رسالت مآب ﷺ کی قیادت میں قائم ہونے والی مدینہ کی ریاست اور اس میں آنے والے انقلاب کو صحیح طرح سے سمجھنے کی ضرورت ہے ۔ اسی طرح رسول محترم ﷺ کے دنیا کی امامت کے فلسفے کا مطالعہ کریں تو وہ سارے عوامل کھل کر سامنے آجاتے ہیں جن کے باعث مسلمانوں نے 636 عیسوی میں یرموک کے مقام پر دنیا کی ایک سُپر طاقت رومن امپائر کو شکست دی جبکہ اس سے ایک سال بعد 637 عیسوی میں دوسری عالمی طاقت سلطنتِ فارس (Persian Empire) کو پچھاڑا ۔ حمود الرحمٰن کمیشن رپورٹ 1971 کےالمناک سانحے کا نہایت جامعیت سے احاطہ کرتی ہے۔ حمود الرحمٰن کمیشن رپورٹ کے مطابق فردِ واحد یحییٰ خان نے اپنی طاقت بڑھانے کی خاطر فوج کو ناقابلِ تلافی نقصان پہنچایا۔ اس شخص نے اپنی ضد اور انا کی وجہ سے فوج سے ہتھیار ڈلوائے ، رپورٹ کے مطابق ہماری فوج نے جنگ کے میدان میں تو خوب مقابلہ کیا لیکن فردِواحد یحییٰ خان نے فوج کی ساری کوشش پر پانی پھیر دیا۔ ہنری کسنجر نے اپنی کتاب میں ذکر کیا ہے کہ فردِواحد یحییٰ خان پانچ سال کیلئے فوج اور ملک دونوں کا سربراہ بننا چاہتا تھا جس کیلئے اس نے اپنا علیحدہ آئین بھی تیار کروا رکھا تھا ۔ فردِواحد یحییٰ خان نے فوج کو اس قدر نقصان پہنچایا کہ فوج کو خود اسے ہٹانا پڑا. جمہوریت کی بنیاد اخلاقیات پر ہوتی ہے ۔ جب کسی معاشرے میں اخلاقیات نہ رہیں تو وہاں جمہوریت کا تصور نہیں کیا جا سکتا۔جمہوریت میں عوام کو اپنے نمائندے خود چننے کا حق سب سے بنیادی ترین حق ہے ۔ پاکستان میں جس طرح سے جمہوریت اور اخلاقیات کی دھجیاں اڑائی گئیں اس کی تفصیلات قوم کے سامنے ہیں جبکہ نگران وزیر اعظم انوار الحق کاکڑ کے 8 فروری کے انتخابات کے حوالے سے خیالات اور اس سے پہلے راولپنڈی کے کمشنر کا اعترافی بیان پاکستان میں جمہوریت کی حقیقت بیان کرنے کیلئےکافی ہے ۔اس وقت پاکستان میں صرف ایک جمہوری حکومت قائم ہے اور وہ خیبرپختونخوا کی حکومت ہے۔ پاکستان تحریک انصاف کی خیبرپختونخوا میں حکومت کے تحت پورے صوبے میں کسی بھی سیاسی جماعت پر کوئی بھی سیاسی سرگرمی کرنے پر کوئی پابندی نہیں۔ اس سے پہلے جب مرکز میں پاکستان تحریک انصاف کی جمہوری حکومت قائم تھی تو ہماری مخالف سیاسی جماعتوں کی جانب سےکیے جانے والے احتجاجی مظاہروں یا سیاسی اجتماعات کے موقع پر نہ تو ان کے راستے روکے گئے ،نہ ہی ان پر کسی قسم کا تشدد کیا گیااور نہ ہی ان کے خلاف کوئی مقدمہ قائم کیا گیا۔ خیبرپختونخوا کے علاوہ پاکستان بھر میں قائم فارم 47 کی حکومتیں تحریک انصاف کی ہر پُرامن جمہوری اور قانونی سیاسی سرگرمی کی راہ روکتی ہیں، ہمارے کارکنوں کو بدترین ہراسگی اور تشدد کا نشانہ بنایا جاتا ہے اور ان کے خلاف جھوٹے مقدمات کی بھرمار کی جاتی ہے۔ کرپٹ حکمران اشرافیہ کے مفادات کے تحفظ کیلئے ملک سے جمہوریت اور اخلاقیات کو تباہ کیا جاتا ہے چنانچہ یہی وجہ ہےکہ جو بھی پاکستان میں حکمرانی کے منصب پر پہنچا اس نے لوٹ کھسوٹ کر کے پیسہ باہر بھیجا ۔ اس کی تازہ ترین مثال وزیر داخلہ ہے۔ دبئی لیکس پر محسن نقوی کو جوابدہ ہونا ہو گا اور قوم کواپنی اہلیہ کی جائیداد کی منی ٹریل دینا ہو گی اور قوم کو بتانا ہو گا کہ جب محسن نقوی اور اس کی بیوی کا سارا کاروبار پاکستان میں ہے تو جائیداد کی خریداری کیلئے پیسہ باہر کیسے منتقل ہوا۔ اسی طرح اسے گندم اسکینڈل کا بھی جواب دینا ہو گا۔ جیل کے اندر انسان کو اپنے رَبّ سے قریب ہونے اور خالق سے تعلق قائم کرنے کا موقع ملتا ہے ۔ جیل میں میں نے اپنی ضروریات کو محدود کر لیا ہے جس سے جیل میں رہنا اب مشکل نہیں۔ میں یہ سمجھتا ہوں کہ جب آپ اپنی خواہشات کی غلامی چھوڑ دیتے ہیں تو آپ آزاد ہو جاتے ہیں اور آزاد لوگ آزاد فیصلے کرتے ہیں ۔ مشکل وقت میں سوشل میڈیا ٹیم کی خدمات بے مثال ہیں، جیل میں بند ہونے کی وجہ سے کمیونیکیشن کے مسائل ضرور آئے ہیں لیکن مجھے اپنی سوشل میڈیا ٹیم پر بھرپور اعتماد ہے اور میں اپنی ٹیم کے کے ساتھ کھڑا ہوں۔ تمام سوشل میڈیا ورکرز کو میرا سلام ہے۔

I am posting this video again. All the lies Israel had spread . The world believed the lies about decapitated babies but turning a blind eye away from the actual footage of decapitated babies from Rafah . Share this video again and again . Remind them with the lies that allowed this to happen

@MahaGaza Palestine will be free in sha Allah

If I ever get killed at some point, if any voice from Gaza you’re following gets silenced, please keep speaking up for those still enduring this genocide, those living under this illegal occupation. Do not stop until the whole of Palestine is free.

What a beautiful sight...

He should be suspended and never posted again at such places...doesn't know how to behave with humans...

27 years ago, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf started its struggle to assert the primacy of the rule of law & justice within the country. Central to establishing rule of law is the presence of an independent judiciary. Over the years we have seen a degeneration of rule of law, and in the last two years, the law & the Constitution has been blatantly violated, subverted and undermined - decimating what was left of the judiciary's credibility and authority. Therefore, we welcome the six brave judges of the Islamabad High Court who have highlighted the alarming state of affairs of the higher judiciary in a letter addressed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan and members of the Supreme Judicial Council. This letter with its 2 annexures, brings on the record the brazen and shameful interference of the intelligence agencies in judicial matters, which is a damning indictment against the independence of the judiciary in the country. The fact that the judges have been intimidated and coerced into giving judgements based on political expediency raises a lot of questions on the fairness of the courts and their judgements over the last 2 years. In addition, this also questions the credibility of the state narrative with results to 9th May, an event instigated within the Islamabad High Court when Chairman PTI Imran Khan was abducted & dragged from the court premises by paramilitary forces, who stormed the building of the IHC. Since then, a wave of political victimisation has been unleashed where abductions, followed by torture inflicted upon political workers & leaders has become the norm, and the Courts have been unable to assert their authority or dispense justice. More importantly, it is Islamabad High Court & its lower courts where most of the cases of PTI chairman Imran Khan, including his illegal arrest & conviction, are pending or underway. The fact that this court is under influence & pressure raises serious doubts on these cases as well. It is, therefore, imperative that the Supreme Judicial Council conducts an impartial inquiry into these serious allegations by the six honourable judges of the IHC, and ensure justice and relief to thousands of political prisoners languishing in jails without any crime.