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Retired businessman, Non-Executive Director, history/biography reader, sports lover and avid golfer.

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4 years
And now a white supremacist attacks a Pakistani American Iโ€™m told. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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Such a rare pleasure and a privilege to have an evening of music and poetry with our brothers and sisters from across the border. The master Javed Akhtar Sahib in Lahore-it doesnโ€™t get better than this.
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3 years
Unbelievable!!
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6 years
Second best news today: Hafiz Saeedโ€™s party put up 265 candidates including his son. Every one of them lost. Pak public still have their minds intact
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3 years
Maestro Seiji Ozawa now an Alzheimerโ€™s sufferer is taken to a concert by fellow maestro Zubin Mehta. Apparently you donโ€™t forget music in Alzheimerโ€™s. Sheer joy and fellowship unconfined โค๏ธ
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Sir Ganga Ram-architect, engineer, polymath, philanthropist and a revered benefactor of #Lahore . Today is his 92nd death anniversary
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3 years
George Floyd makes it to Pakistani truck art
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4 years
#Overheard โ€œPakistanis are people who search for an American School in Pakistan and an Islamic school in America.โ€ Would have been funny if it wasnโ€™t so true!
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2 years
Hahaha ๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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3 years
A cousin and his wife in Lahore tested positive and a govt health team arrived at their home to test domestic staff. Cook had been to his village and turned out positive so a team was despatched to his village to test his contacts. Much impressed #NCOC #COVIDEmergency
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4 years
Sir Ganga Ram, father of modern #Lahore . Great engineer and generous philanthropist. In the words of Sir Malcolm Hailey, Governor of Punjab, "he won like a hero and gave like a Saint". He built Ganga Ram Hospital, Lady Mclagan School & Renala Khurd Power House with his own money.
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3 years
Stunning view of Masjid Wazir Khan in the old walled city #Lahore
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3 years
Bad news for all the haters! #india #Pakistan
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6 years
Muslims care more about halal food than halal income: Malaysian deputy minister
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4 years
"Attested copy of CNIC" is about the most ridiculous requirement in this day & age. CNIC number is all thats needed to verify online from NADRA. Thats genuine authentication but no they still prefer a stamp from a guy on the roadside who'll stamp anything for a hundred bucks
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3 years
Iโ€™m glad that the Pakistan public & press also is big enough to give such complimentary and deserving headlines to India when theyโ€™re due. Somehow I very much doubt that the Indian press, which seems to have turned itself into Modiโ€™s political mouthpiece, would ever reciprocate
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3 years
An ex-employee of mine,left 8 yrs ago has recovered an old bad debt of the company worth several lakhs, written off yrs ago, & delivered it to me down to the last Rupee. It was weighing on him as the fraud happened on his watch. Acts like these restore oneโ€™s faith in humanity.
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5 years
Islam being taught in Pakistan!
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4 years
Ladies & Gentlemen, the new Interior Minister presents his deep analysis of what ails the country!
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3 years
Demonstrations in London as orthodox jews join in to protest against Israeli atrocities! #IStandWithPalestine
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4 years
Badshahi Masjid in background, Gurdwara Dera Sahib in the middle and Shahi Qila in the foreground. #Lahore
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3 years
Grandson Issa(7) fell asleep during the match so elder brother Faiz(8) left this note for him to see first thing on waking up in the morning ๐Ÿ˜‚โค๏ธ #PakvsAfg
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2 years
Well worth a listen #PakPolitics
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3 years
Used to love these as a kid. Younger followers wonโ€™t have a clue what this is ๐Ÿคช
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5 years
If Fawad Chowdhury can be Min of Science & Technology why canโ€™t I be Chairman of Council of Islamic Ideology?! Just asking
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2 years
Go Girls! Prouda ya.
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7 months
โฆ @odysseuslahori โฉ I love London ๐Ÿ˜‚
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6 years
Crack a joke about IK and multiple wives and Insafians accuse you of being Tasteless, Indecent, Personal, Shameless, Umar dekho apny etc! Substitute IK with SS and the same people Like,RT, applaud enthusiastically. All shamelessness, tastelessness etc miraculously transformed
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4 years
A rare sight spotted this morning. Way to go #Lahore
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6 years
#Overheard My wife apologised for the first time ever today. She said she's sorry she ever married me
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4 years
Trump responds to debt forgiveness requests!
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3 years
Now thats its over I can report that on arrival in UK, wife and I both caught Covid, from terribly crowded and protracted delays at Heathrow. Dreadful arrangements. The good news-both of us were fully vaccinated & experienced v mild symptoms for about 3 days. Sinopharm Zindabad
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6 years
Errrr..... No comment! #AtifMian
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11 months
What an athlete!! โค๏ธ
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2 years
Bought in Hong Kong circa 1987. Wife insisting they need to be retired now. Breaks me lil heart ๐Ÿ˜ฐ
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3 years
How to do business in Pakistan 101 ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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2 years
Punjabi wisdom, on either side of the border
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4 years
Garden Town Lahore at 6pm today. All Plumbers and Welders no doubt! This is what happens when you bring out a confused and confusing notification! โฆ @ImranKhanPTI โฉ
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5 years
Call me old fashioned or an old fuddy duddy but in my book it is inappropriate for the PM to be receiving official visitors in a leather bomber jacket. If the universal suit/tie is out then our local dress requires an achkan on top not a variety of western casual wear!
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Syed Babar Ali-one of the most distinguished and admirable men in Pakistanโ€™s 75 year history. Of course a distinguished Aitchisonian as well โฆ @odysseuslahori โฉ โฆ @DTHAPAR โฉ
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3 years
Gwadar Cricket Stadium. Love the landscape #Pakistan
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2 years
โ€œ17 British prime ministers since 1742 lost vote of no confidence and had to leave. Three Indian prime ministers VP Singh, Gowda and Vajpayee lost the vote of no confidence.โ€ Thatโ€™s democracy or all foreign conspiracies?!
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2 years
I have now checked out all the #AamirLiaquat videos. Canโ€™t understand why such a big fuss over such a small thing!
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6 years
I humbly apologise to all my flwers for suggesting that PTI had finally grown a pair & that we must stand behind them in the fight for upholding the constitution and law. I now realise that I was unforgivably under some delusion and should have known better at my age. #AasiaBibi
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6 years
After one evening of watching Geo News I feel the ban should be extended to all parts of the country not just cantonments. Far too trashy & filmy for any even half serious viewer! In fact more channels can be banned to improve the nations mental health
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3 years
I doff my cap to this lady. Far gutsier than our PM and his entire cabinet combined
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Sadiq Ali ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ
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4 years
My driver Afzal, a man of over thirty years standing with us and fatherlike figure to my children, passed away today of a sudden heart attack. A good, honest, upright citizen lost. May he rest in eternal peace ๐Ÿ˜ข
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4 years
Sh Rasheed as Interior Minister โ€œordersโ€ reduction of ticket price of CDAโ€™s drive-in cinema-Rs1000 per car to Rs50. Without going into the merits of the pricing, it is precisely this sort of illegal meddling & political grandstanding that brought eg #PIA #PSM etc to their knees
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6 years
A lady friend asks me: "If I claim that I met a jinn last night, practically the whole nation will believe me. But if I got raped last night, everyone will dismiss it, humiliate me and demand 4 witnesses. Why?" I have no answer.
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1 year
Had a haircut today and the wife didn't even notice. Had this happened in the reverse it would have been a non-bailable offence.
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4 years
Built a $70 million business on $70k equity! Should be made into a Business School case study as I know of no other parallel in global business! #AsimBajwa
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5 years
"My Muslim brothers and sisters: Please stop inviting #JacindaArdern to embrace Islam. She has obviously turned out okay without it. Instead consider embracing humanism yourself." Shaan Taseer
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Haroun Rashid
5 years
After many years started wearing my fathers nearly 80 year old Rolex again. Works perfectly as long as you remember to wind it every night.
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3 years
Punjabi nationalism! Even English spellings have been Punjabised ๐Ÿ’ช #Lahore
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1 year
Todayโ€™s news. Get the hint #Pakistan ??
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1 year
Love him or hate him, there is absolutely no justification for a state funeral for Gen Parvez Musharraf. Period
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Haroun Rashid
3 years
โฆ @iShaheenAfridi โฉ โฆ @babarazam258 โฉ Your portraits by my 9 yr old grandson, a great fan of yours
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Aitzaz Ahsan says putting AAZ on ECL is โ€œan extreme step.... hurting the feelings of millions of supporters.โ€ Well who would have thought his supporters were such sensitive and easily hurt souls. May Allah give them the strength to bear this terrible shock & setback. Ameen
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Shehla Raza unable to find any fault in Atif Mian's qualifications as an economist, has chosen to attack his religion. Shame on her & PPP. This is not constructive opposition-in fact its the kind of shameful low blow that has brought Pak to a sorry pass #EconomicAdvisoryCouncil
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5 years
Old Laal Topi is off to war. May he embrace shahadat and fulfill his lifelong dream.
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3 years
When @CMShehbaz first started MetroBus in Lahore every opponent criticised its concept, cost and derisively referred to it as โ€œjangla bus.โ€ I find it endlessly amusing how every party incl his worst opponents are now tripping over each other to inaugurate their own jangla buses
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2 years
Word!
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3 years
I wish ppl would stop being fixated about whether they summitted or not. For me, the moment they were reported missing, summit or no summit became totally irrelevant.The only concern has been to find them. I would happily trade no summit in exchange for their lives #K2winter2021
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#MajorLanglands who passed away today at age 101. Here in 1964 with me sitting on his left and three rows back, dead centre โฆ @ImranKhanPTI โฉ. All of us proud to be associated with this great man and reflect in his glory
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3 years
You forgot to mention, India also achieved a defeat by 10 wickets. No other team in this tournament managed to achieve such an overwhelming defeat. Congratulations! Sorry but you just walked right into that ๐Ÿ˜‚
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T 4088 - Irrespective of what the results of tomorrow's NZ v AFG game are in the T20 ICC World Cup .. remember this .. we have scored the highest total , till date , in the tournament ; KL Rahul made the fastest 50 ; and we defeated the opposing team, in a record 6+ overs ..๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ
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5 years
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern is an agnostic who took her oath of office without a Bible or mention of God. A living example that to be a humanitarian you need no dogma; just compassion, love, an open heart and an open mind.
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4 years
So this crass and vulgar wedding display said to have costed Rs 200 crores was graced by many performers including award winning actor Maulana Tariq Jameel who received Rs 1 million as โ€œnazranaโ€ and preached stirringly on the importance of simplicity. Pass the sick bag! ๐Ÿคข
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On the Peshawar to Rawalpindi train. Image captured by Steve McCurry in 1983. I remember these guys so well from train travel in the Sixties. They relayed whole feasts from the Dining Car to your personal compartment this way! #PakistanRailways
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(L-R) Moulana Abu Kalam Azad, Mian Iftikharuddin (my great uncle), Jawahar Lal Nehru and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Baacha Khan)
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7 years
Canadian PM now featured on Pakistani Truck Art
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2 years
"Shit is temporary, asshole is permanent." #AamirLiaquat
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5 years
My old teacher, Housemaster and intrepid leader of many treks up into our Norther Areas Maj GD Langlands has died aged 101. He served Pakistan from the day it was born, in Pak Army, then Aitchison College for 25 yrs, Razmak Cadet College & finally Langlands School/College Chitral
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2 years
Babe if Khan sees this you are screwed anyway!
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4 years
My letter to The Times yesterday, got published today. #London
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2 years
Miftah Ismail speaks the truth once again
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5 years
First he went for the Govt, then he went for the Ahmedis, then women, then IK, then Jemima Goldsmith and now PTM. Surprised it took some liberals so long to realise that the Maulana is only in it for himself, the rest is all humbug & hypocrisy #AzadiMarch
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I love a good military parade. Have done so since I was a child. But I am opposed to having THIS 23rd March Parade. With tens of millions in need of vaccine and the economy and employment suffering, the money has to be prioritised elsewhere. No question at all about it in my mind
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Gymkhana Cricket Ground #Lahore . One of the most beautiful in the subcontinent
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5 years
Canโ€™t believe this country! When Saqib Nisar was riding roughshod over the law, indulging his crass narcissism they all cheered. Wen the upright Justice Isa passes a judgement instructing institutions to operate within their constitutional limits, 7 petitions filed against it!
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2 years
Governor Sarwar and Aleem Khan were both close and senior members of PTI. If even 50% of their allegations are true it pretty much blows apart both the intellectual and financial integrity of IK. Another icon fallen? #AmrBilMaroof
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5 years
#Pinglish -Crash course in Punjabi English Mint - 1/60th of an hour Skint - 1/60th of a minute Seetan -many seats Tict - what you need to buy to watch a show alone Tictan - what you need to buy to watch a show with family Puls - law enforcement officers Skorty -what Puls provides
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We will ban your artists and tourists, we will not play sports with u, we wonโ€™t trade with u, we will try to ban u in every intl event: we will do everything & anything but we will not talk to u of the issues hampering peace- Modi School of Diplomacy
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6 years
Bahria Towns seem to specialise in building the largest mosques in Pak/Asia/World. But building a mosque on fraudulently acquired land, no matter how large, is surely a sin. Or is the act of mosque building meant to wash all sins off the land titles?!
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3 years
Rickshaw in #lahore preaches respect for all religions for peace. Way to go.
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Haroun Rashid
6 years
This is the second instance in two years that ARY has collapsed so hopelessly bereft of any defence whatsoever. In any civilised country their media licences would be revoked by now. But our PEMRA too busy nannying our morals, religion and political affiliations
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3 years
The Gurdwara and the Mandir at #AitchisonCollege . Sadly no worshippers since 1947 but still perfectly preserved. Photo credits @AzamJamil53
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6 months
Lahore Electricity Supply Company wishes all its customers a very Happy New Year!
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3 years
For the first time in history, Pakistan's PM, Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Defence Minister, and Governor State Bank are all Aitchisonians. I rest my case ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ‘
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4 years
My sister in Karachi who returned from abroad on 5th March got called based on info in her landing declaration by DC-South yesterday to enquire on her health and movements since then. Impressive #CoronavirusOutbreak
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7 years
"Muslims care more about halal food than halal income." Supposedly said by Malaysian PM.
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6 years
Constitution of Pakistan anyone? #AtifMian
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6 years
The News was arbitrarily banned in Cantonment several months ago. As from today DAWN has been arbitrarily banned in Cantt too. Is this what we call #BajwaDoctrine
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Haroun Rashid
2 years
Excellent! Thatโ€™s exactly half the age of IK when he got his first job! ๐Ÿคช
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Ariba Shahid
2 years
Congratulations everyone! @BBhuttoZardari got his first job at the age of 33.
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4 years
At the risk of being controversial, possibly even committing a cybercrime in the eyes of PEMRA & FIA, but Iโ€™ll say it anyway-Biryani is a grossly overrated dish and vastly inferior to a good mutton pulao. Period
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5 years
I know it is fashionable now to dream wistfully of BB as a martyr to democracy and enlightenment. Horrible, condemnable and foul as her murder was, lets not forget she was totally complicit in AAZ's money rackets and young BBZ for all his erudition seems shaped in the same mould.
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Haroun Rashid
3 years
Senate passes Bill to make Arabic in schools compulsory. With a screwed up Govt edu sector that imparts 3rd rate edu even in Urdu & English, this is the last thing they needed. Fix what you have instead of grandstanding on pseudo religious platforms. Chutiyas of the highest order
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Haroun Rashid
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To be used strictly with your lawfully wedded wife. It recognises and explodes if any adulterous relationship takes place on it.
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