# ![@nadeemhaque Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::23115658.png) @nadeemhaque Nadeem Haque

Nadeem Haque posts on X about pakistan, the world, money, agencies the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  22.94% [countries](/list/countries)  22.02% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  1.83% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  0.92% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  0.92% [currencies](/list/currencies)  0.92% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  0.92% [stocks](/list/stocks)  0.92%

**Social topic influence**
[pakistan](/topic/pakistan) #3401, [the world](/topic/the-world) 6.42%, [money](/topic/money) 4.59%, [agencies](/topic/agencies) 3.67%, [countries](/topic/countries) 2.75%, [accounting](/topic/accounting) 2.75%, [investment](/topic/investment) 2.75%, [what is](/topic/what-is) 1.83%, [we are](/topic/we-are) 1.83%, [ai](/topic/ai) 1.83%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"What is the story on that one constitution avenue. Building depreciated. Construction stopped. CDA running it Is that good solution or are we wasting Our capital"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2018572436661580003)  2026-02-03T06:29Z 57.3K followers, [---] engagements


"President Bangs should have cited Pakistani economists and demographers who have been saying this for [--] years. It is wrong to give the impression that the world bank does all analysis for Pakistan. [--]. It is disrespectful. [--]. @WB_Pakistan is then destroying local capacity by doing so. No public intellectuals can grow then [--]. By destroying public intellectuals @WB_Pakistan is not helping create local human capital and we know thats most important for growth. [--]. There has to be connection between government and local intellect and civil society. @worldbank should nurture it not try to distract"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2019663805144526883)  2026-02-06T06:45Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Our economic journalists have been trained by donors to do reports on what donors say or the powers that be announce and report data without question. They ignore iconic governance how all agencies are ruined by bosses and judicial arrogance and his merit is squandered on a daily basis. A deep inferiority has been cultivated in them on domestic research and intellect. They will not report on what domestic research until the donor agencies repeat it. And no one wants to attribute local research or cite it. @dawn_com @DunyaNews @Profitpk @brecordernews"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2019707898281213975)  2026-02-06T09:41Z 57.3K followers, [---] engagements


"It is amazing that we cannot make any system in this country and that we hope to develop. For an investor will come here to invest where there is no system. Every system is broken. Had to go to Hospital for a reminder thing today. At every step they would come and ask for money. They cant make a system where a patient comes in discharge at the beginning of the or the end. IV in your body and then wanted you to get up and make a payment Procedure has to be done upstairs. You have to go downstairs to make a payment and vice versa. For a sick patient to go up and down [--] or [--] step floors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2020069960601817528)  2026-02-07T09:39Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Sorry Zubair sb. Dont agree. [--]. You cant educate people who dont want education. [--]. Why should people get educated when they is no merit which is how education is valued. [--]. Politicians have to stop crying the education story. [--]. They never do anything for education in power [--]. Education is a political hot potato for politicians. [--]. Politicians use education system for employment. [--]. Teachers are appendages of admin to do vote counting DXC bidding filling Jalisas [--]. Thought leaders and intellectuals are treated as crazies and only cronies given medals and positions. [--] No merit in education"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2020154669847441638)  2026-02-07T15:16Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@ImranKhanPTI would have got basant going (he tried) but for buzdar. Bushra Bibi should take responsibility. But then no one does takes responsibility in pakistan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2021145588415516894)  2026-02-10T08:53Z 57.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Really sad cry from a woman who has contributed to Pakistan. State must be forgiving and big hearted to accept criticism. A harsh state hollows out. And people with achievers must be respected or there is no society. Stay strong my precious ones - you have the support & prayers of countless ppl with u bec you have always stood for justice for the downtrodden the marginalised the forcibly disappeared all the victims of injustice by the powerful. U are being made to pay the price for this. https://t.co/9s6AemSIPG Stay strong my precious ones - you have the support & prayers of countless ppl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2020034929107820848)  2026-02-07T07:20Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"And why should dynasty not be recognized with a role abd duke dom. We remain medieval                    [--]   https://t.co/2iMNnuTwwR                    [--]   https://t.co/2iMNnuTwwR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2021068637516464467)  2026-02-10T03:48Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The be all and end all off all intellectual debate in Pakistan is that there is elite capture and that the army did it. Problem solved. Lets go home. And then they take conference after conference to say the same thing. Tears spent repeating this litany Then you wonder why we are intellectually barren. No one can question this mantra"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2021938725241213241)  2026-02-12T13:25Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"They want you to pay taxes to privatize roads whenever they like build gated estates import luxury vehicles at state expense The party is on at your tax expense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1991055873024909550)  2025-11-19T08:08Z 57.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Collect taxes and screw the people. What medieval kings did. Still the philosophy in Pakistan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1991063572651323819)  2025-11-19T08:38Z 57.4K followers, [----] engagements


"At barber shop everyone cursing the cricket situation. All saying stop this nonsense. Let us travel freely. All wanted cricket to be played without bothering people or be gone. Will the government listen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1991155304575483991)  2025-11-19T14:43Z 57.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Road closures and signal free corridors have increased our oil import bill by how mush. Would be a good question for our young researchers if they ever get to asking good questions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1991360576099074247)  2025-11-20T04:18Z 57.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Pakistan today feels like Nottingham: a Sheriff extracting rents rules bent for the powerful and the public left to survive like Robin Hoods outlaw economy. Until we fix the system heroism will remain informal and justice optional"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1991385759899873582)  2025-11-20T05:58Z 57.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@afahim @grok. Joe would you rate the work of economic policy in pakistan Are they making good policies for development Or are they the main impediment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1991390962015490327)  2025-11-20T06:19Z 57.3K followers, [--] engagements


"If more provinces is the solution then our politicians should be in the dock for wasting [--] years fighting each other for power They want to go back Ayub after [--] wasted years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1991509544367976902)  2025-11-20T14:10Z 57.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@brief_pk How much did it cost of [--] high cost people from these agencies worked on it for [--] months and visited Pakistan [--] times biz class and [--] star hotels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1991789554073018430)  2025-11-21T08:43Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"All the cars are running around Helter skelter breaking the one way crashing into each other because of the security of the cricket game. Millions rupees are lost an additional tax on the poor people of Pakistan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1991872375890252165)  2025-11-21T14:12Z 57.4K followers, [----] engagements


"People who want more provinces and point to other countries that are more provinces forget that we are a federation and that we fought hard to make a federation So if youre dismantling a Federation what do you want to replace it with and will we have concurrence of the federating units Do we want to make a union like India did and what Ayub Khan tried to do If so the federating unit must agree And if we wont more promises they should be a study on what it means especially for local government and the many urban areas of Pakistan It seems to me this is merely to avoid giving cities the freedom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1992114209036059030)  2025-11-22T06:13Z 57.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Everywhere I look I see bad research poor analysis but the same people sit in echo chambers and repeat the cliches that have become common. No new ideas Why are we scared of questions critiques and new ideas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1992157474481418735)  2025-11-22T09:05Z 57.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Approximately [--] times the gdp of Lahore standing here. But they have no protocol no vip pleasures. Wrong answers only Who are these guys https://t.co/YNhoJJPwCt Wrong answers only Who are these guys https://t.co/YNhoJJPwCt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1992452511031296413)  2025-11-23T04:37Z 57.3K followers, 57.4K engagements


"@techfinpolitics So what. Pint remains valid. It had nothing to do with AI or not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1992537273745948796)  2025-11-23T10:14Z 57.4K followers, [----] engagements


"I am sick of hearing the term Structural reform but no one identifies what these structural reforms are When pushed they say more taxes more loans and FDi. This is on the one side squeezing the economy and on the other preparing for future external Payments. Is this structural reforms To me NO Does anyone know what structural reforms we need"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1992816495697813694)  2025-11-24T04:44Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"We have chased corruption for the last [--] years and got nowhere All the years of chasing corruption ruined our governance systems as well as encouraged a brain drain. Now our government systems are a full of people who compete for legal gains but those that lowers productivity eg good postings compliant judgements lucrative board memberships etc So to lament corruption without fixing systems and attracting the best talent into key positions will not do much. It will encourage those in power to continue to look for gains that kill productivity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1993193642576523355)  2025-11-25T05:42Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@Asad_Ashah Let us be clear all funds made available to bureaucracy will be wasted. And TDAP has never done much for exports. See https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/tdap-and-the-mirage-of-export-promotionr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/tdap-and-the-mirage-of-export-promotionr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1993253209767657818)  2025-11-25T09:39Z 57.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Good points add to it bsburaj the deep rot of regulation attestations nocs inspections and permissions. Without fixing our two biggest structural flaws distorted energy pricing and an unfair inefficient tax system Pakistan will remain stuck in a cycle of stagnation. No country can grow when businesses are crushed under the weight of unpredictable energy costs and a punitive Without fixing our two biggest structural flaws distorted energy pricing and an unfair inefficient tax system Pakistan will remain stuck in a cycle of stagnation. No country can grow when businesses are crushed under the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1993638888166838297)  2025-11-26T11:12Z 57.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Got this message. Good thinking. The madness is compounded by complete lack of direction We have [--] officially approved plans in Pakistan [--]. IMF [--] years [--]. Uran [--] years [--]. Prime Minister Economic Transformation Plan [--] years [--]. Workd Bank 10years [--]. SIFC time frame indefinite All have the same variables FDI Inflation Tax to GDP ratio unemployment. . . Etc etc None of them match Amazingly if all these plans by some act of god were actually implemented (not possible at totally conflicting targets) Pakistan would still be right where it is today But we dont talk about this madness What is planning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1994275721095860489)  2025-11-28T05:22Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Politics in pakistan Thank Mian Sab @NawazSharifMNS for sending this beautiful gift after agreeing me to resume the office of PMLN Australia under your leadership. https://t.co/N8GpdpbOUj Thank Mian Sab @NawazSharifMNS for sending this beautiful gift after agreeing me to resume the office of PMLN Australia under your leadership. https://t.co/N8GpdpbOUj"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1994638322086617522)  2025-11-29T05:23Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Part of democratic ministers taking up positions with protocol and power is that they should have some responsibility. Not in pakistan. They criticize their policies as if they are ghosts. Ghosts who love power protocol and perks but no responsibility. So who is responsible for this bad tax policy https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1994992007966855302 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1994992007966855302"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1994992007966855302)  2025-11-30T04:48Z 57.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Anything to keep the system of plots protocol and perks going. Get rid of [----] rs note and even [----] rs. But not their fancy government cars houses and plots and cars.       :" [--]      [--]   "( ):"   "(  )  "   https://t.co/8zZZhkpPhU       :" [--]      [--]   "( ):"   "(  )  "   https://t.co/8zZZhkpPhU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1994996917802340675)  2025-11-30T05:08Z 57.1K followers, 27.6K engagements


"Do we need more provinces or more city governments. City governments is what we should strive for. And no NFC distribution without pfc distribution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1995359456868372725)  2025-12-01T05:09Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Everyone is a dmg. Got my car insured as required Minor claim has taken me days to get going. Surveyor wants documentation of registration is card birth certificate etc. Everyone wants all documentation. Where is my data security. And do I do anything where but documentation all day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1995403998682050734)  2025-12-01T08:06Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@elonmusk What nonsense ELon. Migration is a status that you cocky reverse by fiat. And what kind of a world do we want where people are locked up in a cages of countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1997969704410107993)  2025-12-08T10:01Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"All agree our economy is choked by high taxes. Who is to blame No one Bad luck FM. No one Bad luck FM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1998637380081950907)  2025-12-10T06:14Z 57.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Wrong. Poverty is a meaningless number game. It is certainly not 45% today. https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/counting-poverty-without-reformr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios 🚨numbers dont lie: almost half of Pakistan nearly 4445% now lives under the poverty threshold according to the latest assessments. over 85% of jobs remain informal with no security no benefits no future for workers and their families. 1/3 @nadeemhaque @Razarumi https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/counting-poverty-without-reformr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios 🚨numbers dont lie: almost half of Pakistan nearly 4445% now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1998969023082758331)  2025-12-11T04:12Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"I dont know about you but personally Im sick of hearing about Faiz hamid and about the imran khan and pmln. Our economic and many other problems are never discussed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1999560224735215987)  2025-12-12T19:21Z 57.1K followers, 26.6K engagements


"@MiftahIsmail Well then will the government allow the exchange rate to move They want exchange rate to appreciate so perhaps interest rate should moved up by 200bp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1999705289638195250)  2025-12-13T04:57Z 57.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Can someone tell us how the random closure of roads helps security What about the security of ordinary people who are sitting dichs in traffic when road blocked Or how about risk of random road closure when traffic suddenly disrupted without carefully planned alternate routes and people are forced to break one way But the hard state only cares for VIPs not the rest of us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1999778573503381513)  2025-12-13T09:49Z 57.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Why are people not incensed over these random barriers Because they are used to VIP slavery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/1999793889147027523)  2025-12-13T10:49Z 57.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Yesterday a young academic told me that he wanted the permanent job and therefore accepted inferior job that will teach him less. My response I dont need somebody like you. You are not a risk taker. You elect the fire in your belly to excel. You prefer laziness to ambition With the young generation that is tied to security Candice country progress Love your opinions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2001519471048167627)  2025-12-18T05:06Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@Fizaalam_93 Progress and economic growth depends on heroic youth. If the youth does not want to stay for heroism that society dies. Society of easy-going Insurance lovers remains a lazy slave society like ours Your opinion is welcome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2001540639989862694)  2025-12-18T06:30Z 57.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Im amazed at the number of people who are saying that there is nothing with trying to live a risk free life Many are advocating we should not take risks That risk is only for heroes Do you remember heroes make the world and not lazy people are hiding in corners Imagine the world without Alexander Columbus or chengez khan . Where are our heroes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2001543135915307423)  2025-12-18T06:40Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@haider_mehtab So he should resign. He has been planning minister for [--] terms and could not develop a growth model. You should have questioned him on what model he has given"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2001879421121347666)  2025-12-19T04:57Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Correct me if I am wrong first bid by Lucky at rs [---] billion ie [--] million dollars of which only [--] or [--] million will come to government. Rest they will invest in company. After paying off Ernst and young and including cost of privatization commission taxpayers are losing money. Please tell me I am wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2003436260330000577)  2025-12-23T12:03Z 57.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Correct me if I am wrong first round ended at [---] billion ie [---] million dollars of which only [--] million usd will come to government. Rest they will invest in company. After paying off Ernst and young and including cost of privatization commission taxpayers are losing money. Please tell me I am wrong. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2003443331620307078 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2003443331620307078"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2003443331620307078)  2025-12-23T12:31Z 57.2K followers, 36.4K engagements


"Miftah is right the government will save money by getting rid of a bankrupt asset even though it is giving it with cash in the till and additional assets. However no one mentions the secretaries who were the principal accounting officers and on the board of PiA and the ministers who ran PIA into the ground. Or the number of times PIA ran special flights free of cost for VIPs PM CM etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2003555145406386206)  2025-12-23T19:55Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@Asad_Ashah Love the way you accountants reinvent the past. All privatizations leave all liabilities for the tax payer. Nothing new here. How did we create our nomenklatura"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2003719713092960352)  2025-12-24T06:49Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@nadeemmalik @nadeemmalik since you know how lucrative refining isget into that business or stop advising government. You are anchor not an investment adviser. Please dont use your position for policy advice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2003735329052963280)  2025-12-24T07:51Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Repeatedly the bureaucracy accumulates losses and then says forget the loss let us sell the asset. Pia should have been privatized in the 80s or 90s when the rest of the world did so. Is anyone going to ask why have tax payers been royally screwed to keep the bureaucrats happy in board positions and as principal accounting officers. And why did they not allow the enterprise to be privatized at an early date And when politicians want to stuff agencies with their constituents where are the BODs and the principal accounting officers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2004115897318101415)  2025-12-25T09:03Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Repeatedly the bureaucracy accumulates losses and then says forget the loss let us sell the asset. Pia should have been privatized in the 80s or 90s when the rest of the world did so. Is anyone going to ask why have tax payers been royally screwed to keep the bureaucrats happy in board positions and as principal accounting officers. And why did they not allow the enterprise to be privatized at an early date And when politicians want to stuff agencies with their constituents where are the BODs and the principal accounting officers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2004144874736763046)  2025-12-25T10:59Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Are you not sick of seeing ads of CM Punjab on TV using our taxes for personal political campaign"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2004188746758213789)  2025-12-25T13:53Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Every day I hear politicians and TV anchor say that all problems must be studied in solved by politicians As they say massalay siasat Danone hal karat hein We give them too much attention and importance. We cant clear our concepts. Most issues are beyond mere baith ke baat kar lain. Most issues require serious through and research. Politicians are merely required to oversee through the lens of public interest. They have neither the knowledge nor the mandate to do so. For example cancer patient canny be treated by a politician. Building laboratories and roads and education cannot be done by"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2004408200087720348)  2025-12-26T04:25Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Strange people. We dont Like nuances or deep debates. Everyone claims I am against PIA privatization. Or that I said that the transaction was badly structured or we could have sold it for more Let me repeat [--]. I am glad Pia privatized. [--]. It should have been done a long time ago. [--]. The auction was great [--]. nothing wrong with price or transaction. I am also glad FFC is in the deal. They should have done it up front. But does not matter. All I saying is [--]. Why did it take [--] years. [--]. Why the delay which cost over a trillion rupees to taxpayer. [--] if we had given it free [--] years ago taxpayers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2004859408275345901)  2025-12-27T10:18Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Taxing Without Thinking I Pakistans Budget Leaves No Room for Growth I. via @YouTube https://youtu.be/a--iCxOq79Qsi=8Jp35vlut7_vGYyr https://youtu.be/a--iCxOq79Qsi=8Jp35vlut7_vGYyr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2005186344243671236)  2025-12-28T07:57Z 57.2K followers, [---] engagements


"In [----]. I advise all you economics students to switch subjects or start a business. Your professors sre no professors. They know no economics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2006682536194486543)  2026-01-01T11:02Z 57.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@SaleemFarrukh Here is the link to the review of growth https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/pakistans-growth-trap-is-not-a-mysteryr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/pakistans-growth-trap-is-not-a-mysteryr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2006755472720933369)  2026-01-01T15:52Z 57.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@NajamAli2020 @KhaleeqN If only the sharifs had the decency to exit like george Washington thatcher Reagan and many other great leaders. This lust for power is also in our generation. And we should recognize it. Sharif could have been an ended statesman run a university or something made this country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2007302065228525871)  2026-01-03T04:04Z 57.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@NajamAli2020 Whose job is it to plan for growth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2008024433567641995)  2026-01-05T03:55Z 57.2K followers, [---] engagements


"The boom bust cycle in Pakistan is a result of bad policy and no reform. https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/pakistans-boombust-cycle-is-a-policyr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/pakistans-boombust-cycle-is-a-policyr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2008595757700698621)  2026-01-06T17:45Z 57.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Reform fails because the system is designed to resist it. Bureaucratic gatekeeping Colonial logic Input-based planning Ignored public research No performance culture Follow that lender for policy https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/my-agenda-for-reform-colonial-continuitiesutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/my-agenda-for-reform-colonial-continuitiesutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2009857570908057711)  2026-01-10T05:19Z 57.2K followers, [---] engagements


"My reform framework dissects the problem and offers [--] key ideas. Bureaucratic reform Urban planning Donor accountability Rethinking democracy Decentralization https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/my-agenda-for-reform-colonial-continuitiesutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/my-agenda-for-reform-colonial-continuitiesutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2009888363818762541)  2026-01-10T07:21Z 57.2K followers, [----] engagements


"In my view missing bullet is Lack of thought research and debate Hasty action Follow that donor. We do a lot of things. Much hasty ill thought out projects and agencies created. Examples Roads flyovers etc IPPs Tax upon tax Build new agencies whenever told. But all of it in haste w/o due diligence https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2010227818303545402 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2010227818303545402"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2010227818303545402)  2026-01-11T05:50Z 57.2K followers, [--] engagements


"I have recently been reviewing the thought leaders on economics and I find they have little to say except agree with taxing more or borrowing more. No one offers solutions for [--]. The deep seated energy mess of last [--] decades. [--]. No one presents an alternative to the reheat imf program. [--]. No one has clarity on the bad tax policy we have [--]. No one seems to evaluate or think about the proliferation of government giveaways smf new agencies. [--]. No one notices the absurd loans dog poor quality projects their terms and conditionalities. So in my view there is more of an intellectual deficit that a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2010238743807168809)  2026-01-11T06:33Z 57.2K followers, [--] engagements


"Flyovers have been a craze in pakistan. We always catch a fad when the rest of the world has given it up. Please stop flyover mania. Use parking charges instead. https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/free-parking-choked-cities-why-urbanr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay Op-Ed: "Karachi has built [--] flyovers in the last two decades . They have not solved Karachis problems and most of them were unnecessary even to the then head of the traffic engineering bureau of the KDA who was of the opinion that the decision to build the flyovers was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2010572973103804841)  2026-01-12T04:42Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Democracy has produced elected fascist kings. Surely there is a better system of management. Are there no political philosophers talking of this change"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2010649065554579715)  2026-01-12T09:44Z 57.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Why are we concerned only with elections. We need a system that allows fresh entry into politics as well as skilled managers. What this system is giving us s hunger for power and winner takes all. Why do we want such a system. And please dont say serve dynasties for [--] generations and hope for the best. This system is not working. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2010688758832857482 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2010688758832857482"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2010688758832857482)  2026-01-12T12:22Z 57.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Islamabad in smog. Thanks to the mad rush to build flyovers. Cant see margalla from Centaurus "  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2011718472775221706)  2026-01-15T08:33Z 57.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@ZorainNiz You are right. Here is actual survey data. https://file.pide.org.pk/pdfpdr/2022/693-698.pdf_gl=1*1tnlh7z*_ga*NTQwNjQ1Nzg1LjE3NjI1MjQ1ODM.*_ga_T5TLWHEVW9*czE3Njg1NTgyMjUkbzIwJGcwJHQxNzY4NTU4MjI1JGo2MCRsMCRoMTI5MDIxOTg5*_gcl_au*NzUxNTczNjE2LjE3NjI1MjQ1ODM https://file.pide.org.pk/pdfpdr/2022/693-698.pdf_gl=1*1tnlh7z*_ga*NTQwNjQ1Nzg1LjE3NjI1MjQ1ODM.*_ga_T5TLWHEVW9*czE3Njg1NTgyMjUkbzIwJGcwJHQxNzY4NTU4MjI1JGo2MCRsMCRoMTI5MDIxOTg5*_gcl_au*NzUxNTczNjE2LjE3NjI1MjQ1ODM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2012105453757763944)  2026-01-16T10:11Z 57.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Pakistan doesnt lack governance talk. It lacks governance consequences. Thats why investors stay awayand why codes alone wont fix it. https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/do-we-need-picg-at-allr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/do-we-need-picg-at-allr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2012117116280033369)  2026-01-16T10:57Z 57.2K followers, [---] engagements


"They (donors) make us build all manner of useless agencies and create hurdles for our development and a fiscal burden. But we (our government) is beholden to them. Snc then we claim independence and think that the country is secure. All it takes is one consultant to run out country. Thanks to our inferiority complex. https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/pakistans-kearney-expriment-big-promisesr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/international-growth-centre-an-evaluationr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2012744412447780964)  2026-01-18T04:30Z 57.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Add and every is cardholder has right to a bank account. What is this nonsense of income verification when the bank has a persons savings. At the CDC inauguration in [----] by PM Nawaz Sharif I asked Finance Minister Sartaj Aziz to announce on the spot the induction of all [--] ICP mutual funds in CDC. He did it instantly stunning the ICP chairman on stage. That single decision unlocked everything that followed. We At the CDC inauguration in [----] by PM Nawaz Sharif I asked Finance Minister Sartaj Aziz to announce on the spot the induction of all [--] ICP mutual funds in CDC. He did it instantly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2012812745981165946)  2026-01-18T09:02Z 57.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Had one of my zoom discussions with about seven or eight people some luminaries and some others. as always got a mix of ideas. [--]. But what was prominent is that policy policy making failure is foremost in this country PowerPoint meetings destroy everything [--]. The government produces no white papers no research to back up its claim just announce poorly conceived policies without even ownership or confidence of implantation. [--]. Most important to all there is no discussion of these things that have a heavy reliable reliance on the bureaucracy and consultant alliance [--]. Interesting point was that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2012825717130797200)  2026-01-18T09:53Z 57.2K followers, [----] engagements


"They have been tailing US for [--] years sending troops to massacre poor people. Helping Israel genocides. Perhaps Europe and Mr Carney can begin with an apology to the countries they invaded. And call Israel out. Mark Carney: The middle powers must act together. Because if we are not at the table we are on the menu. You wont hear a more important speech for some considerable time https://t.co/rTR8h7LsId Mark Carney: The middle powers must act together. Because if we are not at the table we are on the menu. You wont hear a more important speech for some considerable time https://t.co/rTR8h7LsId"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2013854710076264734)  2026-01-21T06:02Z 57.2K followers, [---] engagements


"The IMF does not run Pakistan. Pakistan signs IMF programs. Every line is negotiated. Every program is approved by Pakistans own finance minister and central bank governor. Blaming the IMF is political theatre not economics https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/ministers-must-own-imf-programsr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/ministers-must-own-imf-programsr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2013882768472842548)  2026-01-21T07:54Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"They meet [--] times a year at least and each meeting says the sane thing. People should ask where is the refirm Where is growth and investment Are your frequent flier programs helping us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2013921533664931985)  2026-01-21T10:28Z 57.3K followers, [---] engagements


"How many people in Davos at taxpayer expense. At Davos as part of @CMShehbazs delegation I had a chance to tell Jensen Huang of @nvidia about the great strides Pakistan seeks to take in AI and compute capacity inshaAllah. #Davos2026 https://t.co/bIIsRWBIP9 At Davos as part of @CMShehbazs delegation I had a chance to tell Jensen Huang of @nvidia about the great strides Pakistan seeks to take in AI and compute capacity inshaAllah. #Davos2026 https://t.co/bIIsRWBIP9"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2014047993432002595)  2026-01-21T18:50Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@MiftahIsmail The burden of growth in your analysis is purely on interest rates. But evidence shows investment is not very sensitive to growth in pakistan. Many factors important. https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/why-pakistan-does-not-invest-whatr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/why-pakistan-does-not-invest-whatr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2014194872757211410)  2026-01-22T04:34Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Include the free travel to Davos and other useless junketsministers and secretaries earn millions of rupees a month"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2014212786289557719)  2026-01-22T05:45Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"And growth requires a minimum reform agenda not merely forcing interest rate down. Follow @realDonaldTrump he has fired a few hundred federal workers closed ministries USAID given tax breaks to pensioners waited others and deregulated. We need goodness if policy. And we need our leaders to tell people of bold reforms required https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/exiting-the-imf-talk-is-cheap-canr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/exiting-the-imf-talk-is-cheap-canr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2014214855826498001)  2026-01-22T05:53Z 57.3K followers, [---] engagements


"It seems every minister wants to do diplomacy and not the hard work of reform or policy making. But then given the system no one really knows what to do The process of policy making and reform is so tightly held by a few that people in power. This leaves ministers floundering around. So the best thing is to make speeches and travel the world. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014586763646484987 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014586763646484987"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2014586763646484987)  2026-01-23T06:31Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"It seems every minister wants to do diplomacy and not the hard work of reform or policy making. But then given the system no one really knows what to do The process of policy making and reform is so tightly held by a few that people in Power. Good ministers keep floundering around looking to influence policy. So the best thing is to make speeches and travel the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2014591916206391299)  2026-01-23T06:51Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Who is responsible for the SOE mess. Why dont we discuss it https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/understanding-pakistans-soe-problemr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay https://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulhaque/p/understanding-pakistans-soe-problemr=1ykiy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2014716476054503477)  2026-01-23T15:06Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"I was told by a very respectable person dont call out the dmg they are not all bad. Did I ever say they are all bad Individually they are nice people great to talk to. I call out the system not individuals. It is system that is the problem at not the individuals. How hard is that to understand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2014781449896133092)  2026-01-23T19:25Z 57.3K followers, [---] engagements


"It seems universal thinking the only problem is the establishment. Criticize then much. But say nothing about other actors in the systempoliticians bureaucrats donors lobbies. So political economy is merely talking of establishment and never of another institution such as judges politicians and civil service"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2014972759798104190)  2026-01-24T08:05Z 57.3K followers, 28.8K engagements


"Why do Pakistanis love to celebrate an increase in poverty. The HIES needs proper analysis. People only see poverty increase. Why Will any economist rise to the occasion. When higher income fails to ease poverty https://t.co/Ark4xAVKb3 When higher income fails to ease poverty https://t.co/Ark4xAVKb3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2015315373978230893)  2026-01-25T06:46Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"They talk of tax effort Why is tax an effort Should it not be outcome of development and growth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2015359469983805450)  2026-01-25T09:41Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Another issue we dont talk about is nepotism that is rampant in pakistan. http://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulha http://open.substack.com/pub/nadeemulha"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/2015381693251862848)  2026-01-25T11:10Z 57.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@AdilNajam @PAKISTANIAT hope u linked your urban initiative to Planning Commission Framework for Economic growth-good tactics n intl honest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/241619643427594240)  2012-08-31T19:33Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Nice job @AdilNajam great interview. http://t.co/anES2OHZ3s http://demystifying.com.pk/p=651 http://demystifying.com.pk/p=651"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/357940981288534016)  2013-07-18T19:12Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@AdilNajam probably because our academics few that we have produced have not really engaged in developing a local community or vision.1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/442513217408212992)  2014-03-09T04:12Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@AdilNajam many years ago. Still true. http://t.co/ojoMzQ4WSO http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/Sad_Plight.pdf http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/Sad_Plight.pdf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/442515557301379072)  2014-03-09T04:21Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@AdilNajam analysis is neutral. I leave moods to politicians. What we need is more dispassionate analysis and discussion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/442518793219502080)  2014-03-09T04:34Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@AdilNajam it's a fallacy to think u can protect domestic products by mere legal action while stunting domestic markets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/442878138050428928)  2014-03-10T04:22Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@AdilNajam ppl have to do something DMG gives them no option for real entrepreneurship. So creative energies go there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/470598848306761728)  2014-05-25T16:14Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@AdilNajam when people have no room to breathe because of obscure bureaucratic regulations bandar Ka tamasha is v attractive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/470624997443395585)  2014-05-25T17:58Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Can anyone estimate the loss of a weeklong imperial Eid holiday (even banks closed) Don't think happened in any other country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/495057726460796929)  2014-08-01T04:05Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@AdilNajam what Adil u object to 'imperial' Ham would be angry. Just consorted with royalty fir [--] days ;)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/495074743960088576)  2014-08-01T05:13Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@AdilNajam this perception research always made me uneasy. @anticorruption corruption index perfectly correlated to race and GDP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/521012623119482882)  2014-10-11T19:01Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@AdilNajam how do we handle this http://t.co/N5Mryz1RqT. Should aid/NGOs be allowed to dump on our thought industry http://development20.blogspot.com/2015/03/who-protects-our-thought-industry.html http://development20.blogspot.com/2015/03/who-protects-our-thought-industry.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/605469006011711488)  2015-06-01T20:20Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@safridis @AdilNajam when aid money stops questioning I worry When aid money/not domestic thought defines agenda/policy we should worry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/605535887892586497)  2015-06-02T00:46Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@AdilNajam not asking for banning at all. But when we protect cars and let our intellect be preyed upon their is huge net loss"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/605548617085124609)  2015-06-02T01:36Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Have been to a few DC think tank events on Pakistan. Seriously badly informed. Don't want fresh views. Pander to officialdom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/630349778556162050)  2015-08-09T12:07Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Who But u r right. There were civilized days https://x.com/adilnajam/status/655412364192436224 #BB on #PTV Yes #TV used to be different. Very different. I know who the #anchor is. Tell me who the guests are http://t.co/rJk0iqipoD https://x.com/adilnajam/status/655412364192436224 #BB on #PTV Yes #TV used to be different. Very different. I know who the #anchor is. Tell me who the guests are http://t.co/rJk0iqipoD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/655422147733659649)  2015-10-17T16:36Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Youth and the Demographic Dividend () @AdilNajam on SOCH BICHAR @MAFundp http://ln.is/www.podbean.com/medi/0a0bR http://ln.is/www.podbean.com/medi/0a0bR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/736075194767282178)  2016-05-27T06:02Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"But @AdilNajam pls explain arrogance of LUMS. Is it deliberate What purpose does it seve https://x.com/salmanaraja/status/736386514087759872 https://x.com/salmanaraja/status/736386514087759872"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/736456790968303616)  2016-05-28T07:19Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"MOF bad budgetary policy and management by throwing to blame not taxpayer FBR provinces etc MOF needs restructuring/professionalization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/790573497928089600)  2016-10-24T15:19Z 57.2K followers, [--] engagements


"Solution: Buy 😀😁a kindle https://x.com/adilnajam/status/912031632282046469 For 3rd time in a row was just selected for detailed #BagCheck👜 after airport✈ electronic screening because I was carrying a large #book📖 https://x.com/adilnajam/status/912031632282046469 For 3rd time in a row was just selected for detailed #BagCheck👜 after airport✈ electronic screening because I was carrying a large #book📖"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/912032522279800834)  2017-09-24T19:14Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@puruesh @SR_Jamali In line with our weight in world of population"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/951694993969831936)  2018-01-12T05:59Z 57.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@AdilNajam Thanks. Now we have [--] golf courses [--] polo grounds in Lahore and only [--] public libraries. [--] public libraries if you include model town and DHA. This is for a Cory bigger than New York. And then we wonder why kids turning to fundamentalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nadeemhaque/status/994441286680764416)  2018-05-10T04:57Z 57.4K followers, [--] engagements

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