So this is how it plays out. At 195 in the interbank, Dar boards a plane headed to Islamabad. By the time he lands it's at 196.3.
His motorcade whisks him to the finance ministry and Bloomberg starts a live split screen focusing on him on one side and a counter on the other.
He's in the conference room when it edges over 200, giving directions to his flunkies. Camera breaks away to anchor announcing further 27 rupees subsidy on petroleum. The counter reads 208.4.
May 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A massive sugar tax to curtail demand, ban on using more than 7% arable land in a district for sugarcane cultivation, water tax on landowners cultivating sugarcane and 65% custom duty on imported tea is my joint health, climate, water scarcity and fiscal policy.
You save water, clear ground for more efficient and profitable crops, save untold billions on healthcare, increase tax collection, and get the sugar boys out of parliament.
Every single one of these things is essential for the country's survival.
Feb 22, 2022 • 97 tweets • 14 min read
In the year 1996, Man had been on this planet for at least 300,000 years. He was not the first to come on this planet from the skies and this is not the first planet he came upon. Centuries passed, he learned, he adapted, he evolved.
Every life that was lived had an infinite number of experiences, an incalculable amount of learning, each one of those amounting to the flutter of a butterfly’s wings and collectively forming the hurricane that shapes the human consciousness today.
Jan 23, 2022 • 81 tweets • 11 min read
Now that most of you are safely asleep, I think it's a good time to drop the first chapter of a new story and then faux outrage tomorrow at the lack of retweets. Strap in, you're in for a ride.
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Many Karachiites might not be able to recollect its exact location off hand, but the vast majority are familiar with the name of Fauji Qabristan, the military cemetery next to the much more well-known Gora Qabristan...
Nov 12, 2021 • 327 tweets • >60 min read
Muzaffar Tunio walked back to his desk even more confused than he had left it. He had waited in the corridor for 2 hours to express a total cluelessness about why the weather was so cold and during the two hours he had waited, the cold wave seemed to have dissipated entirely.
Even worse, his boss had chewed him out about failing to put together a plausible explanation for the goings on at the Karachi University campus – and he was totally unaware that there had been anything unusual going on at the Karachi University campus...
Nov 3, 2021 • 90 tweets • 13 min read
Well, ready or not, here comes Episode 1 of Season 2 of Muwakkils of Mehmoodabad. If you haven't read Season 1 yet, you can read the thread here:
Faizan Qadri had stayed the night at the hut in Hawkes Bay. It wasn’t something he liked to do – the TV reception was poor and cigarettes were hard to come by – but it was 1994, Operation Blue Fox was going on, and the Abyssinia Lines area where he lived wasn’t exactly the...
Aug 27, 2021 • 271 tweets • >60 min read
Since it's been a year and I've got 15 minutes till my zoom meeting starts and jinn stories are back in style....
Majid Ajmeri was a rebel. Inasmuch as anyone with a side parting and a mustache can be called a rebel but there are degrees of everything, even rebellion. Majid’s grandfather Mirza Hafeez Ajmeri, had been a Pir, a holy man of sorts who’s father and grandfather had also been Pirs.
