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Confusioncius - I read, I forget, so I make notes. I research, I compose, but lazy to post. Bla.

Hunza x Hunza
Joined August 2018
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@Blabidin
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1 year
Hope this letter in a Thread🧵, reaches the tourists visiting Hunza & GilgitBaltistan. Dear people of Pakistan, you praise the place for its high literacy, but do you ever ask how they study without electricity. Do you ever notice that all you see are schools and no university?
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@Blabidin
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Then there is the Rock Scene from Everything Everywhere All At Once
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@LegendaryEnergy Andrew Schulz with a counter.
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@ReheSamay Andrew Schulz on abortion:
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@Blabidin
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Visited Jamatkhana at night. There was a gathering on arzoq and chai. Told me I can have a handful. This is my handful!
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@Blabidin
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1 year
@covertroserisin This useless thread could have been over after the first one. Good on her. And I legit think you are a guy.
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2 years
Hunza matters
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@NoContextHumans That's just standard jungle tax.
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Thousands from all over Hunza have finally reached Gilgit. Time: 6 10 PM. They (we) merged with the Nagar sit in at Harespo Daas, Chalt, and then continued towards Gilgit.
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بارش نہ ہو پہاڑ پہ پھر آپ بھی نہیں گلگت نہ ہو تو سمجھو کہ پنجاب بھی نہیں ✊✊ #GBWantAutonomy
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@Blabidin
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Here are somethings that I realized watching how some of the different regions within GilgitBaltistan register their protests. First: No one protests like the people of Nagar (probably Skardu too) do. They have leaders, followers, & most importantly... 1/3 #GBWantsAutonomy
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@Blabidin
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2 years
Mountains, fields of green Hunza Hunza, the tourist glee People in custody in the Noose of subsidy Hunza Hunza, the locals weep Paradise on earth, Plastic free! Hunza Hunza, the tourist glee ATA above their heads Khakis, Babus, colonizers undead Hunza Hunza, the locals scream
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Hunza, Hunza, land of my dreams, Where the mountains rise high, the rivers flow clean. With apricot orchards and fields of green, It's a paradise on earth, or so it seems. So come and visit this land divine, Let #Hunza 's charm be forever thine. #GilgitBaltistan @DepttTourism
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Let's confuse mainland Pakistan. ~Halal sweet.
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To the GBian photographers, videographers, and others with media presence especially on Instagram and Tiktok, covering the upcoming Winter Fests, I hope that you'll take some time out to cover the protests going on all around Gilgit Baltistan if you haven't already.🙏
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@Blabidin
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KKH DOESN'T HAVE FOOTPATHS when it passes through various villages of Hunza. Never occurred to FWO babas. Leaves students, who flock the highway in 100s when school ends, prone to traffic accidents. Esp with rise in traffic due to tourism. (Picture taken early in the morning)
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@Blabidin
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1 year
I ask you to ask the working women if they're paid enough. I ask you not to drive and step in the locals' shoes & walk. I ask you to realize that a generator powers your rooms, that elsewhere it's dark. I ask you to turn off your tourist mode at times & speak up for the locals.
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@Blabidin
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10 months
Salgirah Mubarak to the Ismaili Community and beyond. We made sharbat at our Jamatkhana. Sharbat is a melody of grinded wheat, butter, and a grating boiled for hours on a thousand embers.
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@Blabidin
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2 years
My CV had 'ex-shepherd' in it. Employers liked that. Shame.
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She let go of the oars as she placed herself between a pair of churning waves. Like the big-horned mountain goats ready to strike each other, the waters rose in a #maelstrom upon their hind legs and eyed each other. "Smithereens!" She yelled out, her fingers crossed. #vss365
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11 months
No fancy breakfast can top this. Period.
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1 year
You gape at the splendor of mountains & rivers, cruising in your vehicles, but do you notice that the roads don't have footpaths, that there are kids you have to dodge past. These roads were once walkways and now they walk as if walking the plank.
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@Blabidin
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Perseverance Harsh realities. Fire to thaw out the frozen tap_the sole water outlet during winters. #GilgitBaltistan
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This made me happy. CDA, take notes. Danyore, Gilgit-Baltistan.
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@Blabidin
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I❤️Nagar
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@Blabidin
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You praise women's empowerment & you're surprised to see women on the streets, but do you see that what you speak has an orientalism sheen? Because this is how it should be, so please go home and ponder upon why with the same empowerment women in cities can't roam free.
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@Blabidin
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2 years
Join @aleema_karim & me for the first #bookhour in Hunza on "Another Sort of Learning" by James Schall. 35 years on, the book still appeals to those who neglected serious thought in school or in life and to those who, though well-read, have yet to see how it all fits together.
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@thespursweb Dier is fluent in Wolves
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@postcardofexile Weird that I did not come across Zlibrary. I have always been using libgen.
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@Blabidin
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Who's interested in conducting a BookHour-ish Book Review with me here in Hunza, in the coming weeks? (Hoping Twitter grants this maximum visibility🙏) This will be our view in The Loop at Digital Hub Hunza🔽
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@Blabidin
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2 years
The real juxtaposition is this: Alberta has 177 hospital establishments, 26 Universities, and none of the babus and the fwos. Above all, it has ministers who live in the region all year round, and don't flee to warmer areas in winter. So Raja saab, they "ain't" close enough.
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Raja Nasir Ali Khan
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The juxtaposition of Alberta 🇨🇦 and Gilgit-Baltistan 🇵🇰. Ain’t they close enough? 😍 @gilmour_wendy @PakinCanada_ @CanHCPakistan
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@Blabidin
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Need Fakhar Zaman to hit a dozen sixes in the final ODI and win some scholarships for Pakistani students. SIXES to resuscitate higher education in Pakistan.
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@Blabidin
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2 years
Hello, World!
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@Blabidin
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Let the perpetrators ROT! Imagine if couple of men from Gilgit-Baltistan who want to swim in pool/lake despite the prohibition there, imagine on being told not to, they bring out their pistols and M4s and open fire on the locals. What would be their fate? Imagine.
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@Blabidin
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Hunzukuc becomes Lahoris when tourists ask them the Qibla direction.
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@Blabidin
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9 months
Ittehad Chok near Gari Bagh. Thousands from Yasin and Hunza joined their peers in Gilgit to stage a massive protest. The demands for autonomy reverberated through the air. This isn't about subsidy anymore. #GBWantAutonomy
@Blabidin
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Thousands from all over Hunza have finally reached Gilgit. Time: 6 10 PM. They (we) merged with the Nagar sit in at Harespo Daas, Chalt, and then continued towards Gilgit.
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The Snow Leopard 🫴:
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HOLY SHEET! Saw a frigging snow leopard while on a track nearby my village in Hunza.🫨 Will upload the media soon.
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@Blabidin
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WhatsApp got nothing on this village crier announcing a meeting to be held the next day. Somewhere in Hunza. #GilgitBaltistanMatters
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Autumn is a name, she comes after Summer.
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@MichaelVaughan Close second?
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@Blabidin
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2 years
Amidst the inflation, the Ismaili Councils in Hunza and Gilgit-Baltistan have ordered its Jamaat to cut short the formal 5 days of mourning to 3 days. However, the council should start first by economizing marriages and celebrations. After all, losses loom larger than gains.
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@Blabidin
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1 year
I took your advice. Thanks.
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@Blabidin Get a life, maybe?
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@Blabidin
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Protest recorded at Press Club Islamabad. The only way forward is for the Indigenous moment of the indigenous people to bring into power an indigenous political force. #GB_strike
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@Blabidin
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No living things were hurt in the making of this video. I checked.
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@Blabidin
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2 years
Qibla only makes sense if you believe the Earth is flat or think your prayer is gravity-bound and won't shoot into space.
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@Blabidin
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The 'brilliant minds of Pakistan' need to word their replies better. "Ismailion ko baqsh diya tha." Baqsh? Surely, Aga Khan III would've scoffed at that. Also, I don't get why you dragged another sect to make a loose point, giving the lazy listener a chance to interpret it wrong
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@Blabidin
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2 years
As you can see, I don't do so well at weddings. #NewProfilePic
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@Blabidin
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Some charities and philanthropists, choose Hunza when there are other places across Gilgit Baltistan that deserve their attention. Hunza is a brand for many before it's a place. Stories and images are sold here, like nowhere else in GB.
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Army Chief Qamar Bajwa's family became billionaires within last six years. Aassets & businesses within Pakistan and outside accumulated by the Bajwa family (other than given by the army) during last six years: Rs12.7 billion (minimum) WTH! #Bajwaleaks
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Private cars: Drivers almost always drive on no sleep. Flight: Unaffordable for most. Buses: Clanky old things that aren't retired unless flattened in an accident. What's left... #UpgradeGBTransport
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@Blabidin
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Balochistan GilgitBaltistan
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@Blabidin
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This isn't morning mist, but are toxic fumes from dump & burn site on KHH that then cover the valley near Ahmedabad, during temperature inversions at morning & night. Let us breath. Remove this dump site. This isn't solid waste management, it's just relocation. @deputy_hunza
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Elites don't have a community but only connections; don't have friends but only acquaintances. They don't know their neighbours: they never had to knock on their door for they never run out of things. Don't confuse this cold cold dry convenience as a "msg of SIMPLICITY."
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Fatima Bhutto & Gibran’s marriage is an important msg of SIMPLICITY for the entire nation. The example set in ZAB’s historic library at 70 Clifton must become the new trend. 🤲Ameen
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@Blabidin
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A beautiful 22° halo around the moon adorned the Hunza night sky today. (With Pictures)
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@Blabidin
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Darabi (Tug of War) is to Hunzukuc what Polo is to Gilgit and Chitral. But Darabi as a sport is far better.
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@Blabidin
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1 year
One such Marium with a beard asked an Altit Fort guide here in Hunza: "Are there Muslims here too?" "No," he replied, "we follow Islam here."
Today's example of Pakistani mainstream sect entitlement:
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@Blabidin
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This is a "let's confuse Pakistans" post.
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Gilgit-Baltistan Matters
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@Blabidin
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9 months
GB ka Qoumi Mashgala: Toopi karanay waloon ko asal topi taufay may dena.
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Raja Nasir Ali Khan
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Held a progressive meeting in Islamabad with the Caretaker Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar with the cabinet of the Royal Foundation Gilgit Baltistan, aiming to highlight the various important issues of the region. 1/2
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@Blabidin
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2 years
DJ Schools in Hunza and Gilgit-Baltistan are stuck in their sorry state for a long time now. Just to give you an example. Ask any school kid, "What is a cell?“ They will answer robotically, "the basic unit of life." Ask them to explain their answer and they go blank.
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Some of Geleetos will now busy themselves for a few days using a cloth bag to carry home their Lays packets, Sting bottles, and Nestle juice boxes. This plastic-free green washing comes and goes like a flu. There is no cure.
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Ismailis if Daswan didn't exist.
@marinaanikolee
NNINNA 🫧
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me if alcohol didn’t exist
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@Blabidin
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Passu community should verbally and legally lynch this #DiscountAC straight. They have suffered enough at the hands of FWO and government babus. They should have made him take a dip in the sewage-ridden water of Attabad for perspective, alas it's frozen.
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Sakhi Asif
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Assistant Commisioner Gojal, Hunza sealed a local restaurant (Yak Grill) for not getting discounts. When the management raised the issue on social media he starts threatening them. This is GB where public servants become the master of local community.
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@Blabidin
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Nestle's business model: Pump out water, bottle it, and sell it back to the people. Especially in water-stressed third-world. In Pakistan alone, without payment Nestle extracted 4.43 billion liters from 2013 to 2017 (2 billion of which was wasted).
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@deangloster Interested in knowing what did you make of Zia Ul Haq at that time? What was the perception of him?
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Stop romanticising hardships! It's the 21st century. Stop burdening children, adults, and elders with century old fate and expectation of resilience.
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عزم ہو بلند تو چھوٹی چھوٹی رکاوٹیں آپ کا راستہ نہیں روک سکتی
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Of Skewed Priorities in Gilgit-Batistan A respondent in HRCP's report: Area of 04 Districts = 01 hospital. Same Area = 12 ACs and 04 DCs "No doubt, Pakistan is more interested in spreading a network of bureaucrats than laying down a network of services." #GBWantsAutonomy
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The barren mountain swooning over the verdant one across the river forgot it's essence to forever descend It's upon that infatuation that my people settled on
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Nawaz Khan Naji and the protest march he is heading will be arriving at Gadi Bagh Gilgit at around 4:00 PM. The call for autonomy is anything but muffled. #GBWantsAutonomy
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Pakistan at partition inherited a colonial administrative setup that led to its decay. Nowhere is this more prominent and the match unfit than in Gilgit Baltistan. The present system, of viceroys of ACs, DCs, and CSs, borrows its imperatives from the colonial setup which are...
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"Salmaa, ye dekho mere nayi gadi," sai laikr "I give up. Can't. Feel. My. Legs." ka suffer.
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"When will I meet you again?" "At #eventide ," the air fogged around her plump lips. She swooped closed, her eyes gleaming, to let him drown--a silent goodbye. New in town, how'd he know that the Midnight Sun doesn't set for another two months. #vss365
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انتخابی نشان: ریڑھی (ریڈھا) NA (ATA) 04 #NewProfilePic
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Made Phiti (local bread) When ever someone hears/sees me working in the kitchen, I hear: "itay schum goshaban garan ai" (if you'd get married you wouldn't have to). Though mostly said in jest, it hides a mindset that is damaging to generational progress. Here and elsewhere too.
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Visual pollution is like slow poison. Each area, each village should kick them down while they have the chance. GB bureaucracy is interested in making the rural the new urban in all the vile ways: Instead of better hospitals, schools, and roads, we are getting what? billboards?!
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People from down country need to understand: THERE'S MORE THAN 20 HOURS OF LOAD SHEDDING IN HUNZA AND OTHER PARTS OF GILGITBALTISTAN. That it is a WTUnderdevelopmentF- situation.
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A sunny day and some tips while you're at it: - Always plan your reading, make a list. Live's short. - Don't just look to build on your previous knowledge. Diversify. - Never head into a chapter without scanning it. Preps your mind. - Take indexed notes. Synthesise. Bla
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Someone from Kyrgyzstan sent me a picture of these Juroti, I've to admit never seen them look so good. Central Asia and GB has so much in common, no doubt the center and the estb have it in their minds that we all wanna merge into a separate state.
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I have a Dream: To get rid of the menace of Ludo from Gilgit Baltistan and replace it with Chess, at least for the next-gen.
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Ustad Imtiaz hearding the Yaks, that came down to the village area, back towards the Baldiat meadows. The Baldiat meadows connect the villages of Ahmedabad, GhameSar, Garaiyat, and Sarat. Though Yaks prefer the mountains, they do move to lower altitudes with increased snowfall.
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The weather app said snow today.
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Mine...this's slowly turning into a desi food profile.
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@syedzaighum110 Read the FIR! It isn't for cursing Yazid l but for cursing Muawiyah and Abu Sufyan. There will come a time when they will have Yazid under that bracket too. But for now at least, no.
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@GorayaFatima Way to bring a germ-infested mobile phone to the operation ward. Kasai ki dukaan hai?
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For those suffering through the social pressures of "what are you doing" phase, wait, just wait till you get to the "when are you getting married" phase.
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Naad e Ali supremacy: Used Naad e Ali to 'Expecto Patronum' childhood fear of ghosts. And much later used it to find the courage to jump under cold showers. Effectiveness: 100%.
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Early morning, yesterday's morrow Bloody without #color , a monotone sorrow He must've slipped on a damp rot of a man in his dark brooding The brain a cavernous knot that mourns forever while protruding To rid himself, a scribe he sought alas the verses were colluding #vss365
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My take on KADO's initiative of plastic-alternative bags: Save the project. Remove the stickers. Seemed to have missed the obvious before. One can't promote a project as eco-friendly while at the same time advertising Nestle products that belong to a high-consumerist society.
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Today for the first time in my life, I walked out of the barber shop with a haircut I wanted.
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I stay away from Instagram because I don't have the appetite for reels. But in that sea of sensory overload, some old-Instagram-cultured folks remind us of the pleasure that lies in photography. @thehunzailad Bravo👏
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For the first minute I destroyed the almond kernels inside their shells. My mum then showed me how her mother (my grandmother) used to do it. Here is a slight demonstration of that.
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Beware my north, the bucolic rural They'll now come for your lands With their generational wealth at hand Your resources they'll plunder With their diabetic hunger they'll rev their V8's run over the pedestrians by "mistake" The 7 years they add Will snatch a thousand from you
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The detective barged in:"FBI here." The police officers were never more happy! "Sent samples for testing DNA yet?" He grimaced at the sight : the body had #vomit at the rear & sh*t at the mouth. "We left the good stuff for you detective," the officer mocked heading out. #vss365
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Told ya.
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I am going to talk a book on a walk today and read it. You wait and see.
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HOLY SHEET! Saw a frigging snow leopard while on a track nearby my village in Hunza.🫨 Will upload the media soon.
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Hello Twitter Islamabad. Help needed! Need help as I'm trying to get a mountain bike for Hunza. I'm near dumb on bike inspection or if it's worth the price or not A reputed shop (G-8) recommended a Giant(used). Any other recommendations? Thanks in advance RW for visibility 🙏
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'Gilgit Baltistan's first female hunte-' STOP! Report it as it should be and move on: "Woman from Hunza decides to join the pathetic current crop of men, as she too pumps up the flimsy ego through trophy-hunting." If ego-stroking is empowerment, then so is masterb-
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Co-education for all, get men of tomorrow used to coexisting with the other sex and an expanding/overlapping gender definition. Otherwise, they too will hold that women-led demonstrations are against the social system of Islam with their selective definition of "Haya aur Iman."
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"Ye gogio samba aitaya yaaran, humol bischan nusay asaan bim, afsooos damayovay thum nai basee laqq divsaan."
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Unfortunately, mainland journalists would cover a mainland politician's fart rather than covering the grievances of people of KPK, GilgiBaltistan, and AJK.
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عوامی ایکشن کمیٹی کی کال پر گلگت بلتستان بھر میں خالصہ سرکار کے خلاف احتجاجی مظاہرے
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2 years
My blood boils knowing these pricks with backpacks with 'mountains and nature as hashtags are the product of Education that costs around 12 lack.
@Kiranology
Billiyon ki Maa
2 years
Rafay & Mujtaba, students of NUST Islb clearly distressing a goat, pulling its legs & all others are also having a laugh on their trip to Kumrat Valley. I hope they will keep the grin as this act is now plastered all over the Internet. Retweet!!
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