1/ Is Sindh’s $154.7M education project really delivering?* The SELECT project’s new digital attendance system rehashes old tech costly foreign loans fund. Let’s unpack key audit findings and why this matters. #EducationReform #Accountability @WorldBank @Dawn_News @kaiserbengali @Asad_Ashah @etribune 2/ Attendance monitoring isn’t new in Sindh. Past attempts like SSDMS and biometric apps failed to stick or show impact. Repeating the same expensive approach risks wasting valuable funds and time. #DigitalGovernance

Karachi is drowning, the countdown has begun

We fooled ourselves into thinking climate change would drown Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit Baltistan but never reach Karachi. So we stayed silent. We told ourselves the political chaos would punish the north while Sindh would be spared. Then we watched bodies float past in the floods and still clung to the delusion that we will not float. That lie will drown us. It’s a matter of time. #karachirain #Karachi


For decades, Jamaat-e-Islami, MQM, and PPP have sold us hate at election time, only to shake hands afterward and split Karachi like spoils of war. Local bodies became nothing more than a profit-sharing pact. Roads, water, garbage, transport, housing all reduced to excuses to mint money.

Warnings Were Funded. Warnings Were Known. Warnings Never Reached.

Entire valleys in Gilgit Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were swallowed in minutes, families torn apart as rivers rose with a fury long foretold. Mothers clutched their children against walls of water. Fathers dug bare-handed through mud where their homes once stood. This was not a surprise of nature. It was a disaster foretold, funded, and ignored. And that truth is more chilling than the floodwaters themselves: the State knew, and still let its people die. Can we dare to ask the State what is the worth of its people’s lives in its ledger of priorities? #flooding
Over the last fifteen years, Pakistan has taken in hundreds of millions of dollars for disaster preparedness.
•The World Bank gave $188 million for the Hydromet and Resilience Project.
•The UNDP Green Climate Fund pumped $37 million into GLOF-II for GB and KPK.
•Japan funded radars in Karachi, Islamabad, and Multan, the Karachi Doppler alone worth $18 million.
•The ADB financed flood resilience across Sindh and Punjab.

With this scale of investment, Pakistan should have a modern, responsive early warning system. Instead, we have a graveyard of projects polished in reports, dead in reality.

•PMD runs the radars but cannot deliver timely, localized alerts.
•NDMA, empowered under the 2010 Act, should command in crisis. It behaves like a post office.
•PDMAs remain starved, politically ignored.
•Deputy Commissioners treat warnings as memos, not life or death orders.

The result? Forecasts exist in Islamabad. Villages drown in Swat and Hunza.