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Ayaz
@khayazahmed
Generalist | Serial Reporter | Pattern Analyst
Feb 7, 2024 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
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TRUTH BEHIND PTI GOVT's "performance" during COVID‼️‼️

Exhibit A:

In a Bloomberg study of 53 countries, Pakistan ranked 50/53 in Covid Resilience ranking.

The data shows that Pakistan had hit rock-bottom by February 2022 (PTI Govt), and was ranked the worst country to perform in this study of 53 countries.

By June 2022 (PDM), it had recovered 3 spots to end at 50th rank.Image
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Image Exhibit B:

In a study of 122 countries, the Covid Economic Recovery Index (CERI) has Pakistan placed at 96th Rank.

The title of the index should suffice to explain what this measures.
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Jan 23, 2024 • 7 tweets • 7 min read
Here's a list of achievements of PMLN (in no particular order) during 2013-2018 🧵

I have a feeling there's more, so feel free to add to the list. Sorry for the long read though. No fault of mine, that PMLN did so much work in so little time:

1. Greatly enhancing power generation capacity (projects listed below)

2. Major Infrastructure projects including airports, motorways, ports and public mass transit systems like Orange Line Train (complete list below)

3. FATA Merger

4. Financing War on Terror (Two full-blown operations: Zarb-e-Azab, Radd-ul-Fasaad)

5. Swiftly undertaking Karachi operation, drastically improving the law and order situation in the business hub.

6. Merit-based Laptop Schemes and scholarships

7. Achieved EU GSP+ Status

8. Auctioning of 3G/4G Licenses, IT Sector reforms, Telecom Policy and Digital Pakistan Policy

9. Removed from FATF grey list in 2015

10.Robust and consistent GDP growth of over 4%, handing over the country at 6% growth, increasing GDP per capita from $1,126 in 2013 to a record peak of $1,621 in 2018. Five years on, and we're still hovering around the same level.

11. Tax reforms which lead to continuous growth in tax collection, from Rs. 1.9 Trillion in 2013 to Rs. 4 Trillion by 2018. Tax to GDP ratio increased from 9% in 2013 to a record peak of 11.4% in 2018. It has only declined ever since.

12.Drastically brought down inflation from double-digits witnessed during PPP tenure to hardly 2-3%. Handed over government at 5% inflation.

13.Drastically reduced poverty headcount by lifting millions of people ABOVE the poverty line.

14. Clear improvement in the GINI Coefficient which is a measure of income inequality.

15. Reduced prevalence of undernourishment from around 14.5% of the population in 2013 to 12% by 2018. It has only worsened ever since.

16.Drastically reduced corruption, improving our corruption score from 28 to 33 and improving rank of Pakistan TEN notches from 127th in 2013 to 117th in 2018. It has only worsened ever since, slipping to 140th by 2021!

17.Bringing the railway system back on track, drastically increasing ridership and freight kms, including upgradation of carriages.

18. Effectively clamped down on deadly Dengue outbreaks through awareness campaigns and large-scale sanitation programs.

19. Record capital formation in PSX

20. Increased Government expenditure on education to 12.2% of total government expenditure. This percentage fell to 7.8% by 2021.

(Complete list of new educational institutes below)

21. Improved school enrollment rates. Established Danish Schools.

22. Health sector reforms, upgradation of DHQs/THQ as well as multiple new state-of-the-art hospitals including RIC and PKLI, children hospitals, burn and trauma centres. (Complete list of new hospitals below)

23. Substantially increased social safety net by increasing allocations for BISP.

24. Established e-Khidmat markaz all over Punjab.

25. Return of International Cricket to Pakistan

26. Kickstarting Pakistan Super League (PSL)

27. ICC Men's ODI Champions Trophy 2017

28. ICC Men's Number One ranking Test Team in 2016

29. ICC Men's Number One ranking T20i Team in 2017

30. Establishment of Narowal Sports City

31. Cleared circular debt.

32. Completed IMF program

Not to forget, all of this happened while we were fighting the War on Terror, operations Zarb-e-Azab and Radd-ul-Fasaad, flushing out terrorists from this soil, restoring stability and confidence in what was being declared as a "failed state" embroiled in a severe energy crisis in 2013, achieving all of this despite facing hostile opposition in the form of engineered protests and delaying tactics to slow down projects, as well as threatening to bring life to a standstill in major cities over non-issues since 2014.

All under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif. PMLN is, without doubt, the name of development.

Vote wisely. 🐅

Read below for a exhaustive list of projects. Credits: @SaudSami 👇🏼 List of Power Projects initiated and mostly completed ⚡️

1.Neelum Jhelum Hydro Power Project (969 MW)
2.Nalta V Hydropower (14 MW)
3.Harpo Hydropower (35 MW)
4.Golan Gol Hydropower (108 MW)
5.Duber Khawar Hydropower (130 MW)
6.Suki Kinari Hydropower (870 MW)
7.Tarbela 4th Extension hydropower (1410 MW)
8.Kohala Hydropower (1100 MW) (contract awarded)
9.Gulpur Hydropower (102 MW)
10.Upgradation of Mangla Power Station (320 MW) (in progress)
11.Gomal Zam Dam (17 MW) (in progress)
12.Diamer Bhasha (4500 MW) (in progress)
13.Dasu Hydropower (4320 MW) (in progress)

14.Guddu Power Plant (747 MW)
15.Uch II Power Project IPP (404 MW)
16.Sahiwal Coal Power (1320 MW)
17.Jamshoro Coal power plant (660 MW)
18.Port Qasim coal fired power plants (1320 MW)
19.Engro coal mines Thar, Block II (330 MW)
20.Engro Powergen Thar (660 MW)

21.Balloki RLNG Plant (1223 MW)
22.Bhiki RLNG Plant (1180 MW)
23.Nandipur Thermal/LNG Plant (525 MW)
24.Haveli Bahadurshah RLNG Power Plant (1230 MW)
25.Jhang LNG Power Plant (1263 MW) -
26.Pakistan LNG Terminal (capacity 600 mmcfd)

27.Metro Wind Power Project, Jhimpir Thatta (50 MW)
28.Gul Ahmed Wind Power Project, (50 MW)
29.Yunis Wind Power Project (40 MW)
30.Three Gorges First Wind Farm, (49.5 MW)
31.Sachal Wind Power Project (49.5 MW)
32.ACT Wind Power (30 MW)
33. Sapphire Wind Power (50 MW) -
34. UEP Wind Farm (99 MW)
35. Master Wind Farm (52.8 MW)

36.Chashma Nuclear Power Plant 3 (340 MW)
37.Chashma Nuclear Power Plant 4 (342 MW)
38. Karachi Nuclear Power Plants K2 & K3 (2117 MW)

39. Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park (1000 MW)
Jun 25, 2023 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Thread 🧵

Remember this?

Now check out the next tweet. 'Prevalence of undernourishment' was on a steady decline. 'Prevalence of stunting' had actually reduced ⬇️ from 45% in 2013 to 37.6% in 2018.

Enter PTI.

Undernourishment shoots up ⬆️ from a low of 12% in 2017/2018 to a 15-year record high of 17% of population by 2020!

👇🏼





Jun 2, 2023 • 71 tweets • 31 min read
THREAD🧵

The FARA e-Files: Debunking the "Haqqani-Bajwa Files"

This is based on publicly available information. I did not meet anyone. I did not pay a single cent to retrieve this information. It is not based on any leaks or conversations that I had. These are cold hard facts. This is going to be a long read.

There are more than 75 tweets in this thread, which I will be rolling out in three (or four) different phases, this being the first one.

Please do not unroll using thread readers till we have reached the very end.
May 20, 2023 • 30 tweets • 17 min read
THREAD🧵

Actually it was Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth who authored the landmark judgement. Justice Karim concurred.

Justice Seth died a year later due to "Covid".

Despite being a legend, he was denied promotion to the SC THRICE despite being fully eligible as CJ of PHC. ImageImageImage Is that how you treated judges who stood up against the establishment of the time? Is that how you treated your legends?

He was superceded by many, including the notorious Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi.

We'll soon learn why. Image
May 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Brief Election History for dummies:

1988: Benazir v Nawaz
1990: Nawaz v Benazir
1993: Benazir v Nawaz
1997: Nawaz v Benazir
Nawaz/Benazir Exiled
2002: Musharraf v ____
Benazir assassinated.
2008: Zardari v Nawaz
2013: Nawaz v Imran Khan
Nawaz disqualified
2018: Imran Khan v ____ Barring 2002, there were always two bigwigs who fought it out for a shot at the top slot.

2018 was an exception. The rival candidate was disqualified from the race!

Imagine Kemal getting Erdogan disqualified (or vice versa) before the run-off.

Who do you think will win? 🤔
May 18, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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It's not everyday that Nawaz Sharif gives a statement. It carries far more weight than Imran Khan's daily tirade.

He is not using the religion card as is being portrayed by some people. In fact, it is quite the opposite that he hopes to achieve from this statement. He's laying the ground for debate, which could possibly lead to constitutional amendments.

Firstly, his target is not Imran Khan and neither is he addressing him.

"Humen saza sunaane walay"

He is addressing the people who gave Imran Khan those esteemed titles of Sadiq & Ameen.
May 14, 2023 • 25 tweets • 11 min read
THREAD 🧵

Who's ready to hand the facts to him on a platter?

It's funny how they always start their lame explanations with "Although the facts of the case have been made clear multiple.."

No man. You don't have to write 5 different threads if it were so simple.

So here we go: ImageImageImage Let's start off with the admitted fact that Imran Khan's government really wanted the UK to probe the properties of Nawaz Sharif's children.

One of them was:

1 Hyde Park Place

Some claim that the Pakistani govt made a request after which the NCA UK had launched an inquiry. Image
May 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The brighter side 🧵

The whole world now knows that Imran Khan is facing several corruption cases. The way the courts have granted relief, he can no longer blame the same courts when the trials begin. No more delaying tactics. "Rule of Law" will prevail. He has been neutralized. He will have to appear before investigators. He will have to appear before the courts and get indicted. He will have to follow his hollow mantra of "Rule of Law" if he doesn't want to be called a hypocrite. The actions of his legal team will be torn apart by analysts worldwide.
May 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Status quo, status quo, status quo.

Everyone's using this term. How is Imran Khan not the "status quo" or far from it?

Status quo literally means existing state of affairs. Khan's politics spans almost THREE decades. His biggest political opponent started a decade earlier. If you hadn't noticed, all we are discussing for the past decade is Khan, his allegations and counter allegations. Isn't that what the status quo is? This perpetual cycle of allegations?

Status quo are not faces. Status quo are actions. Status quo is the state of affairs.
May 12, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Level!

The only program they can boast about is a program in which their contribution is no more than renaming an existing welfare scheme called BISP, named after Late Benazir Bhutto, the first female Prime Minister of an Islamic Country, assassinated by the Taliban. After renaming it, they brought all other parallel schemes, some run by charitable organizations under a centralized program, and took all credit of all the work done by charitable organizations as if they were the ones behind it. Nothing but optics and aesthetics.
May 11, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Relax guys. Hear me out.

Imran Khan will not be released till after he has completed his 8-day physical remand.

As you all know by now, Imran Khan is headed towards a guest house at Civil Lines, Islamabad.

He has not been allowed to return to his 300-canal estate in Islamabad. The SC has ordered him to be presented before the High Court, preferably in the morning. He will be taken there again under police custody. Maybe in the same Mercedes Benz or a newer model.
Apr 29, 2023 • 114 tweets • 46 min read
French mathematician Blaise Pascal wrote the following in a letter back in 1657:

"Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."

"I only made this letter longer because I had not the leisure to make it shorter."

🧵 This is a MEGA thread for those interested in the full story.

Call this a table of contents, if you may. The things I will be talking about.

1.The Who's who?
2.The Panama Papers
3.The "Revelations"
4. The Supreme Court proceedings
5.The JIT Report
6.The Aftermath
Apr 29, 2023 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
How can you claim that due process was followed when you cannot even prove the first act? A direction to take a vote of confidence under 91(7) has to be moved by the President.

The resolution in this case is replaced by the directives of the President. Where are the directives? Image Let me explain.

The vote of confidence mentioned in Article 91(7) is not a resolution per se. Resolutions are moved by members of the Assembly. No one else. The President cannot move a resolution in the assembly.
Apr 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
So a section on Twitter keeps bringing up Nawaz Sharif whenever Imran Khan's financial irregularities are highlighted.🧵

What I am just about to share will blow the lid off most propaganda. This is how the story goes:

In 1974, years before he entered politics...🚨 ImageImage A man called Nawaz Sharif approached the US on 31.01.1974 with a "request for increased ferrous scrap allocations." This was recorded in a US cable sent from Lahore, which was then, 31 years later, declassified/released on 30 July 2005. ImageImage
Apr 19, 2023 • 26 tweets • 9 min read
The story starts from here. 🧵

It was claimed that 300-Kanals in Islamabad was bought from selling a London Flat.

Yet both properties were declared as assets of Imran Khan in nomination papers in 2002. Mind blown? 🤯

This is how you have your cake, and eat it too: ImageImage So one side of the story goes:

Imran Khan wanted to buy a 300-kanal piece of land in Islamabad for 4.35 crores back in 2002. But, having exhausted his finances in campaigning for the 2002 Election, he didn't have the money. So he borrowed money from his wife.
Apr 17, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Foreign investment, trust in judiciary, everything eroded the day NS was disqualified and removed as PM. Who invested after that blunder? Did more countries come forward with $50 billion packages since Pakistan had apparently "cleansed the fountainhead"? Why cant PTI explain where all that money went, which they thought Pakistanis would invest if they came into power? How many billions of $, other than remittances and deposit accounts, were transfered to Pakistan by Pakistanis who wanted to "invest"?