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Swat Swag

2 years

THREAD OF 🧵s: Wherein I have compiled some writings. Mostly t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶t̶-̶p̶i̶e̶c̶e̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶s̶o̶c̶i̶o̶-̶p̶o̶l̶i̶t̶i̶c̶a̶l̶ ̶m̶a̶t̶t̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶.̶.̶.̶(alright..I admit, rants), life as a MPM and some book reviews. ...

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Swat Swag

@Napoha_

2 years

YeS bUT wHy DiD alL tHeSe PolticIaNs uNite agAinSt IK 1. yes it's dirty politics but that is what oppositions do in a democracy:crack the numbers game to topple the treasury. 2. Because IK made politics personal with vendettas, political witchhunts via NAB, FIA and other LEAs.

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Shireen Mazari is a clinical example of a Western-educated born-again ideologically-conservative yet 'life-style liberal' (who wont be arsed to observe rituals of religion), a walking Munafiqat, and has absolutely zero qualms in weaponizing the religious card for personal gain.

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2 years

Podcast but with Shahzeb Khanzada as the host. A concept.

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IK says Farah Gogi made her fortune during his tenure through haq-halal means like everyone else in the real estate industry. He is right: his real estate amnesty scheme is the greatest black-money whitening scheme in the region since the invention of feudalism & gaddi nasheeni.

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A few days ago I tweeted that IK pulling out a new 35 puncture American conspiracy theory (the diplomatic memo/letter)in the wake of an impending defeat in Parliamentary VONC was a stroke of Machiavellian genius and I was told I was giving him too much credit. That IK is being..

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Shahzeb Khanzada is the Khabib Nurmagomedov of TV Journalism in Pakistan. Not many can go into the octagon with him in a battle of facts and come out unscathed. PTI'll be better advised to stick to its character-assassination "lifafa" technique. Hard to win on facts vs the man.

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2 years

Probably too much to ask, but will all of you apologize for the persecution, character-assassination, witch-hunt and suffering you put a good man and his ailing wife through? Koi sharam? Koi haya?

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2 years

Bad judgement by IK to come out so vociferously in defense of Gogi. Could have just denied knowing her. Still early days and full details are yet to come out but it seems Gogi made her fortune taking 'easyloads' by putting 'tyres on files' and getting deals done. Which is what..

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@Napoha_

2 years

Alhamdullilah, my twin girls are four months old today.

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Iqtidaar pyari cheez hai. When people in Peshawar were getting blown up left,right and centre,the man never showed up at a single janaza,fateha,or hujra to offer condolences. Security concerns,granted,but now that his Kursi is gone & he wants it back,he is jeopardizing his life.

PTI

@PTIofficial

2 years

عوام کا لیڈر عوام کے درمیان! چئیرمن عمران خان پشاور میں عوام کے درمیان موجود #حقیقی_آزادی_مارچ میں شرکت کرنے کی دعوت-

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Shahzeb Khanzada giving the Law Minister an intense grilling over the hounding of Imran Riaz Khan (who he says is far from a perfect journalist and has done despicable things like maligning Noor Muqaddam,mocking attacks on Absar A,Toor, Matiullah) but still deserves fair process.

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For all his religiously-inspired rhetoric of Riyasat e Madina and macho anti-imperialist grandstanding, it is quite evident from these Jalsa that IK is no Imam Khomeini or Gamal Abdul Nasir. He is not attempting to subvert or bring down the old order using a charged-up popular..

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2 years

Truth be told, IK is a bit of a Mufta. For all his talk about about integrity and anti-corruption, IK has never really had any qualms about free-loading his way through life, all the way from the party days of 80s in London to politics using ATMs (rich friends and benefactors).

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@Napoha_

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Imran Riaz was given a great opportunity by life to become a better person. You mend your ways. You learn. Granted it wasn't the ideal life-changing experience. But our dude beat death only to return to what he always was: a lying fake-news-peddling munafiq scum bag.

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2 years

Massive outpouring of dissent (and it is quite nasty in that it is taking the shape of a giant fcuk you!) coming from kids of the middle and upper urban class of urban centres (DHA, Bahria type youth, offsprings of service & ex servicemen, civil servants, remittance-sending

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@Napoha_

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Dear Youthiyas. It is not 1971, please. 1971 was a massacre (half a million deaths, 1000s of rapes, two and half decades of economic depravation, hunger, discrimination, and just plain zulm. 2022 is a juvenile tantrum over 'un-selection'. Over not being the Chosen One anymore.

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@Napoha_

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All too easy to pile on the Taliban and call for female education in Afghanistan. No one loves them (except some of our right wing clowns). It is hip activism. Sells with a Western audience well. But Malala's activism on Palestine has been slightly...how do I say it..weak-ass!

Malala Yousafzai

@Malala

10 months

It was an honour to deliver the @NelsonMandela Annual Lecture and call out what is happening in Afghanistan for what it is: gender apartheid. Please watch and share. The world must wake up to what’s happening and support women and girls in Afghanistan.

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1 year

Yeah right. Leave out the one true goat who took a team of cheats and crooks and made something out of it. Day in, day out, from 20-3 and 50-4.

Pakistan Cricket

@TheRealPCB

1 year

5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ ODI wins recorded 🇵🇰💚 #PAKvNZ | #CricketMubarak

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2 years

Dear Insafis. Now is the time to redeem yourself. Prove that you care about the country more than you care about anything else. Do not defend this. Do not spin this. Do not defend this like a cult. This is indefensible. Unconscionable.

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Mob in Bahrain (Swat) has lynched to death a tourist who allegedly burnt the scripture.Reports suggest it was probably some papers with Arabic-looking text. It seems that the Pakistani state has completely surrendered to the very monster that it once created:religious extremism.

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7 months

So let this sink in. Some woman puts on a dress (or likely a local replica of some middle eastern brand) with random middle eastern pop culture references jotted down in Arabic in classic font, and a mob wants to kill her for desecrating the Quran? It's a scary Dystopia.

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@Napoha_

2 years

Ayaz Amir is so right about IK selling the country to the property dealers. The much touted PTI amnesty to the real estate sector which was hailed as a master-stroke is one of the worst things thats happened to the dream of the middle class dream of owning a small house.

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2 years

My brother went on a HEC scholarship to Europe where he got his phd from. Had an offer to work and stay there. But my father told him to come back because his study had been funded on taxpayers' money. As per the Affidavit you sign with HEC, you have to teach for some 4 years

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شہبازگِل کی اہلیہ سرکاری خرچ پر 2011ء میں پی ایچ ڈی کرنےامریکاگئی تھیں اور 11سال بعد بھی واپس نہیں آئیں، یونیورسٹی کی جانب سے 99 ہزارڈالرزکےسرکاری اخراجات کی واپسی کا مطالبہ کیاگیاہے۔ شہبازگل اہلیہ کےخلاف کارروائی رکوانےکےلیے یونیورسٹی پر اثر انداز ہوتےرہے

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Khaki account uploads pictures of a Shaheed Captain martyred today. Handsome youth who had all his life ahead of him. Comments: "Suar" "Vote-chor" "Koi shaheed nahi yeh" "Kuttay ki maut marra" "Acha hai ek kutta km hua" _ How do you even cure this diseased degenerate mindset?

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Now where do I order this "upper" jersey from? Just take my money. This needs to be a thing! This should be available in every sports and clothes store in the country. Iconic symbol! Right up there with the 92 world cup jerseys.

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Blasphemy is more of a Barelvi cause and less of a Deobandi cause. Anti-Blasphemy sentiment has been the primary vehicle used by Barelvis to wrestle back control of the religious landscape of the country after Deobandis shoved them out of the game by forging an alliance..

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2 years

The Bajwa interviews and the post-retirement insights we get into his personality and mindset, just confirm the one belief I have had: that this country has a monumental NA-LAIQI CRISIS. We should talk about "Qaumi Na-laiqi" more. The na-laiqi of public office holders.

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Bro, I am no surkha but listening to Fawad Chaudhary chant, 'hum le k rahain gay...azadi', I do not know why I feel insulted on behalf of all freedom and rights campaigners.

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He is just a kid. Granted what he said was disrespectful and insulting to the families of the deceased, but he should have been couselled or slapped with a minor fine or some community work or something...FIVE YEARS?! THIS IS DRACONIAN. THIS IS A DYSTOPIA.

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If Arshad Nadeem doesnt get atleast a 100 crore in gifts, prizes, sponsorships and deals from the government and other sectors out of this medal, so his parents and kids never have to worry about anything in life again, then "thoon lanat" on all of them. Make up for it now!

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Also it is time we have a serious national conversation about our Overseas Expatiyas: something is not right with them. From mob-lynching in the Holy Masjid, to burning of the national flags and passports in Gulf, to embarrassing rallies in UK. They are an embarrasment.

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Here is the scary part: You can't just create a state based on religion, then go on to weaponise religion to force an ideology of religious "nationhood" against its diverse ethnic groups for almost 8 decades, and then one fine morning decide in a dark conference room: "Alright!

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IK was the Establishment's greatest proudest creation. Brought in to clean the Aegean stables off its filth & corruption and usher in a new era of clean patriotic politics. Charismatic populist like no other in terms of mass appeal(ZAB maybe?) HE IS NOW THEIR GREATEST MISTAKE!

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@Napoha_

2 years

Yes, sir. If only you had got 10 years rule to equip KP Police to combat modern asymmetric- warfare terrorism.

Imran Khan

@ImranKhanPTI

2 years

Strongly condemn the terrorist suicide attack in police lines mosque Peshawar during prayers. My prayers & condolences go to victims families. It is imperative we improve our intelligence gathering & properly equip our police forces to combat the growing threat of terrorism.

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2 years

Insafis likening their recently emerged "panga" with the Deep State as some kind of heroic democratic "awakening" is kind of laughable. History did not begin in April 2022. Other demographics (from Bengalis to peripheries of West Pakistan) have had that awakening since 1950s.

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2 years

Dear KP. Hear me out on this. Bear with me. Without Zia, Pindi, Cold War, petro-dollar Salafiism,CIA,and Deobandiism, there would not have been any Taliban but they are here and a reality we have to live with—a monster we have to slay to survive, whether we're up for it or not.

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I think one of IK's lasting political legacies is convincing a whole generation of badly brought-up spoilt brats (especially overseas type) that it is "heroic" and "cool" to be douche bags, spew venom online, and heckle opponents in person. What goes around, comes around.

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@MurtazaViews

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Justice Ather Minallah heckled in London after ‘Future of Pakistan conference’ at the LSE

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1 year

5 years of salaries, GP funds, house-building & bank loans, and compromises on lifestyles later. I'd say the new Pind House, which I thought we didn't really need, is worth it.

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2 years

In a country where Hitler is portrayed as some kind of admirable anti-Zionist icon who, despite his violent ways, meant well for the world , I cant commend @shazbkhanzdaGEO enough for deconstructing Hitler's rise and the evil it ushered in asaan-fehm zuban for a mass audience.

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Miftah bhai taking the nation to task for not doing its duty when Ahmadis/minorities are persecuted & for giving in to ways Jahalat is the kind of difficult discourse more leaders needed to grow a pair for. This chooran of 'hum dunya ki behtareen qaum' hain is counter-productive

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2 years

Just heard the Anwar Maqsood and Mahira Khan clip, and I think the whole thing is very mean-spirited. The conversation, with crowds jeering on when two women are lampooned, panders to a cheaper, baser luccha-bazari popular awami instinct that modern Urdu humourists tend to do.

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2 years

So at a time when Peshawar is unable to pay salaries and keep its universities running, the cantonment is getting a multi-billion rupees makeover with giant anti-aircraft guns sticking out like hideous penises in key city squares, pointing at the sky.

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Bear in mind that when the tide turns and it is Shahzeb's turn to be persecuted, none of the touts like Ch Ghulam Hussain, Imran Riaz, Sabir Shakir, Saddiq Jan etc will stick out for him. Yeh zindagi mai asoolon wala dhanda bhi mushkil dhanda hai.

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2 years

Watching small-time minions of the Deep State like Geela Teetar, Angoota P,Bol,ARY types who minted millions with state patronage,take on the very Umpire that made them what they are,is an absolute joy. Next time plz invest in scientists, innovators,artists & creators.Not touts

Azam Khan

@azamshaam

2 years

Imran Khan to Imran Khan

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The more I read up on it, Karachi's urban infrastructure crisis is what happens when u mess with nature, take natural water passages, naalas,reclaim marshes and takeover tributaries for greedy real estate adventures. The same will happen to Peshawar & Islamabad in 10 years max.

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2 years

Just read Dawn's story about the retired Maj Gen's civilian son who was court-martialled for 5 years for writing a bunch of angry letters in 2020,and it makes for disturbing,unnerving reading. Old parents were never shown the verdict or the charge sheet. Scary Orwellian stuff!

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1 year

Wajbro has gone from embedded heli joyrides to Waziristan, exclusive access to Pindi and PM's tub in Islamabad to interview the Adil Raja nut job. A very consistent career trajectory of stupidity and buffoonery.

Wajahat S. Khan

@WajSKhan

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This the one a lot of folks have been waiting for... @soldierspeaks is coming up on my Vlog See you in 5 mins on

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3.Because PTI alienated its own allies & its own legislators by letting incompetent persons run federal ministries and provincial governments.Democracy requires reconciliation and accomodations. Not bullying and muscling your way through the system. It just doesnt work like that.

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2 years

Reassuring that people are coming out in big numbers as force of terror regroup across the land. The last time it snuck upon us,we were fooled in the name of shariat,war on the infidels,a righteous jihad,the need to have strategic depth & a friendly regime in Kabul. Not again.

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2 years

For those who are interested, here is a list of the best Kabaap places according to prends in Peshawar based on the poll I did: 1. Rambel, Taru Jabba 2. Misri Khan, charsadda road 3. Umer kabaapi, Bara Gate 4. Sheen, Hayatabad Toll Plaza 5. Bakhshu pull 6. Taj Mahal, Yaqatoot

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2 years

Look at the fear in their eyes. They are this close to getting lynched and dying a brutal death. It is scary AF. I recently read Ellier Wiesel's Night, and this is exactly how he described life under Nazis. This feels like living in a giant Nazi concentration camp.

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He then proceeds to further grilling him as to why Farah Gogi is being targeted for getting a plot in Faisalabad Industrial Estate at the same rate as Ayaz Sadiq. Ethical journalism is hard work. Takes a lot of moral strength to still stand up for scum bags like Imran Riaz,Gogi.

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Today,our main man Noam Chomsky, who has spent a lifetime critiquing/attacking expansionist American foreign policies,regime-changes & capitalist appropriation of world economy is under attack for defending..for..defending..the Empire. Chomsky jee, Lal Salam. hum sharminda hain.

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4. PTI took the one-page for granted & mistook themselves as the chosen one. Hamaray ilawa koi option nahi was a misconception that should never have been harboured. The establishment giveth, they taketh away. Some lessons are learned the hard way. PMLN knows this. PTI did not.

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Maria B is everything that is wrong with this country's (life-style-liberal but-regressive-and-conservative under-the-surface) elite: low IQ, inability to empathize with marginalized communities, holier-than-thou morality code, inability to stay in sync with a changing world.

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Way to go MNS. Casaully promoting casaul racism and xenophobia. Good luck getting votes in KP and Baluchistan.

Maryam Nawaz Sharif

@MaryamNSharif

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ضمانت پارک میں دہشت گردوں کے ستائے ہوئے لوگ! گیدڑ کی بزدلی کی قیمت بیچارے عوام کو چکانی پڑ رہی ہے!

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Arshad Nadeem joins a league of extraordinary gentlemen: the greatest individuals athletes this land has produced. Jahangir Khan. The Great Gama. Jansher. Who am I missing?

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Some Pashtun nationalists here are blathering on about how the lynching is somehow a "conspiracy" to disrupt the resurgent tourism industry in Swat. Bullshit! How's it a conspiracy when the hotel management itself led the mob? The mob was as much Pashtun as Mashal's. The..

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A few months ago, district administration in Bannu had to save the life of a Assistant Professor teaching Darwin's theory. The Professor had to tender a similar "maafi" to a shura of Maulvis and reaffirm his iman. Just like the woman in Ichra Police Station today. 1/3

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Again: Crazy time to be alive. Where Shabaz Sharif sings Jalib's Mai Nahi Maanta,DJ plays Faiz's Hum Dekhen Gay at PTI jalsas, Faiz's kids sell rights of Hum Dekhangay to Vivek Agnihotri who then uses it to make Kashmir Files for a Hindutva crazed India,& Faraz sires Shibli.

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The ANP faces a serious existential crisis in the 21st century. It just doesnt have a meta-narrative that resonates with Gen-Z or the millennials -whose worldview is shaped by their Pak studies, Islamiat textbooks, post 9/11 anti westernism, internet, cable tv & globalization. 🧵

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I dont know how things were like in times of Bhutto, Mujib, Wali Khan, & co, but modern siyasi Jalsa crowds are a bit like the punjabi stage-drama crowd: they want a bit of lacchar-pana, vulgarity, obscenity and sexual innuendo. As to who is responsible for it, the crowd itself..

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Of all the Frankensteins that Fauj has created, IK has been its most effective, and dangerous. As things stand, he is their biggest mistake and worst nightmare. Others pale in comparison. If they have any sense now, they should back off and let politics take its organic course.

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Instead PTI doubled up with dirty as fuck youtubers, influencers and PR focal persons who GASLIGHTED the unhappy aam awaam voicing their concerns. A man with a CD 70 who can only afford a litre petrol should not be told how the price of gosoline in UK is much higher than in Pak.

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When Bajwa was made the COAS, rumours made the rounds, like they typically do, insinuating that he and some members of the family were Ahmadis, and the all-powerful Chief had to hold a Milad, inviting senior Pen Di Siri affiliated Barelvi clerics to dispel that image. At his..

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One of the good and unexpected things coming out of 2022 is erstwhile minions - embedded journalists flown around in sarkari helicopters, paid and supported from public funds- turning against the establishment, like a badly brought spoilt brat against a parent.

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PTI, despite the dent in grassroot popular appeal, is absolutely trouncing PMLN, PPP, ANP in social media wars, like it has over the last decade. What is happening to these grand old parties of 20th cen is what happened to I.N Congress at the hands of a tech-savvy 21st cen BJP.

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Kids are having a blast. Looks like a fun day. Zahid bhai aap chamoono ka ilaaj karayen.

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@ZahidNabiGill

2 years

Bollywood (Kanjarkhana) day @ Lums Pakistan 🇵🇰 #BegairatNation

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Pashtun little tiddas and tiddis flexing "Ramzan janay tay Pathan janay" and shaming others for not fasting. You might want to go out to any bazar after Asr prayer in KP and witness how ppl beat each other up over minor verbal altercations. You might also want to look at..

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@Napoha_

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What happened in Swat today is terribly alarming. No terror is more menacing that the fear of your child getting gunned down on their way to school. Never again. Those dark days of terror cant be allowed to return. Whatever the cost it takes.

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Urooj is a true super star. Ian Smith level of passion for the Big Moments of the game. Finally a truly iconic indigenous voice in the comm box. Hope they give her the big moments to call in ICC events and not let incoherent Ramiz, Waqar, Wasim et al soil these moments.

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So today in village nobody shook hands or hugged after Eid prayers (something we have always done) because the young 20-something Maulana sb said its biddat (transgression from the righteous path). Ours is,like most Pashtun villages, a Deobandi maslak community and it is..THREAD

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@Napoha_

2 years

So refreshing, when there is finally an articulate and well-educated finance minister who has the ability to explain his decisions to citizens with calmness and humility, without resorting to cheap-shot trolling and gaslighting of those who question. Never change, Miftah Bhai.

Miftah Ismail

@MiftahIsmail

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Amir bhai I am not at all a hidden Marxist. I am a firm believer in markets and capitalism. Also in social justice. If our country was on the brink of default, what was the government supposed to do? If we want our poor people to bear the brunt of rising global oil prices 1/n

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@Napoha_

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6. Populism of the Islamo-nationalism anti-saamraj anti-US qaumi ghairat kind is all lit and sexy but only when you are in opposition. Not when you are in power with more than a dozen cabinet members with an American or UK nationality. Which explains why outside of the PTI ..

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@Napoha_

2 years

What was the point of all the Jail Bharo shenanigans and machismo if you are chickening out from what should be a shortish stay in jail? Plus a lucrative siyasi shahadat on the plate. Relief from judiciary won't take long. Why use kar-kunaan as human shield & escalate things?

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@Napoha_

7 months

"Maafi nahi mangwani chahiye thi." No. That's not how it works. See. The modern state is the "monopoly on violence" (use of legal force). In matters of religion, that monopoly is leased out to clergy in Pakistan. Pak is not a secular state. It is an ideological state. So...

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@Napoha_

7 months

I thought Barristor Gohar was doing a good job. A good rather cerebral yang to the whacky and Warr Gaya ying of Marwat and Co. But I guess if you are not TikTok worthy with a soft-spoken personality-type that doesnt appeal to a baser youth instinct, you arent really a "leader."

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@Napoha_

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"What were Punjabi Nai doing in Balochistan?" - The same thing mine workers from a district called Shangla do in the coal mines of B'stan. Even though there are enough mines in KP. Much of the mining work force in B'stan is from Shangla. And sometimes they die by the...

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@Napoha_

2 months

Always amazes me how it is always the stupidest people that are endowed with the most unbelievable self-confidence - to an extent where they are completely unaware of their own stupidity. While the good people struggle with self-doubt all their lives.

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@Ibraheeeeem92

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” نہ آپ کو دوبارہ بُلّے شاہ ملا، نہ آپ کو دوبارہ سعدت حسن منٹو ملا اور نہ اب آپ کو دوبارہ خلیل الرحمن قمر ملے گا “ - خلیل الرحمن قمر

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@Napoha_

2 years

It takes special kind of imaani taaqat to horse-trade at night and then show up the next day and sermonize about Riyasat e Medina and call those who do horse-trading Mushrikeen. Like if you believe in God,how do you even do this? Like how do you face the Lord 5 times a day then?

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@Napoha_

2 months

This is immense. Think of the millions of kids this will inspire. And to dream of glory beyond cricket.

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@Napoha_

2 years

Shahzeb Khanzada is to Youthia twitter what Rana Ayyub is to Bhakt twitter. Nobody quite inspires hatred in the Youthia universe like S.K. I did a couple of tweets about SK actually defending Farah Gogi and Imran Riaz and they still come out dissing the man.

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@Napoha_

2 years

5. With rising inflation, inadequate economic growth, rampant unemployment, and dodgy governance, the opposition has not had much trouble garnering popular support or breaking dissident PTI MNAs who know that they wont be able to face their voters come the next election cycle.

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@Napoha_

2 years

Shahzeb Khanzada's segment (check previous RT) on Bolsonaro's populism and the parallels drawn with Pakistan is spectacular. Masterclass in how to deconstruct conservative crusading populism.

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@Napoha_

7 months

Punjab Puls doesn't have many days where they can be proud of themselves. But today is not one of them. The female ASP (Shehrbano) and all of her squad that rescued the woman from the fanatic mob are NATIONAL HEROES.

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@Napoha_

2 years

Here is the thing: the anti-corruption chooran will no longer sells. Pak has slipped down in Transparency International Index under IK and all kinds of cartels (sugar, wheat, real estate, pharma) have made a fortune under IK. The aam aadmi knows IK failed on that front. Made..

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@Napoha_

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Miftah Bhai was right about Dar all along. What a petty dishonorable man. Has absolutely no shame. Can't fight elections. Can't win shit. Still wants the ministries. Still wants to be on all the Committees. Sharifs need to understand that ppl are tired of their Aqraba Parvari.

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@Napoha_

7 months

Punjab introducing Punjabi in schools and belatedly embracing Punjabi culture is great news for everyone, including the smaller provinces. Ironically,it has historically been the Punjab-based elite that considered its own Ma di Boli too paindu,too low-brow for its High Culture..

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@Napoha_

9 months

You can be a raging anti-war pacifist all you want, but sovereign states (however imperfect) have to maintain a modicum of Minimum Credible Deterrence. What Iran did was bonkers. Incredibly stupid. Especially at a time when the its conducting joint naval ops with Pak and..

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@Napoha_

2 years

I was in the village hujra for a fateha. An old rich retired man from an LEA (son of a farmer)who made his fortune in the 80s Afghan Jihad pulled up for fateha in a Toyota TZ(thats costs more than a crore). My grandfather also served in an LEA circa the Afghan Jihad when...

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@Napoha_

8 months

The argument that IK didnt shy away from exploiting religious rhetoric & even the blasphemy card for political gains,and that,this is just karma for him is predictable. But. The principle of separation of the state and the 'personal life' shd be dearer to u than ur hate for IK.

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@Napoha_

2 years

The 18th amendment is the greatest accomplishment of our democracy since the imperfect constitution itself.The system is glitchy but it can work if u put enough effort (shura & consensus) into it. Today, it is helping those who tried to sell us the 'Presidential system' chooran.

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@Napoha_

7 months

We've seen how it all starts. We've seen it in cases of Salman Taseer,Junaid,Mashal. The instigation starts with posts, forward sms/whatsapp msgs,tweets, journos doing primetime shows. Then some lunatic goes on a rampage. The primary instigators delete their tweets/posts/shows

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@Napoha_

2 years

Mazari sahiba's job as a human right minister was exceptionally challenging.Not easy to do the gig here,granted. But,boy,did she suck at her job.Failed to provide much relief to the missing. I hope she reflects on this & finds empathy for what others & their families go through.

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@Napoha_

7 months

I am no defender of Khakis. Quite the contrary if u follow my TL. But if your first emotion seeing a young man lay down his life bravely against savage terrorists is not solidarity and compassion for the deceased and the family,you are probably not human but a hate-filled zombie

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@Napoha_

2 years

Kids, here is why you should never let them shame you for being "parochial", "provincial" or for having "ilaqai taasub". For the last 12-18 months, Pashtuns along the Afpak from Waziristan to Upper Dir have been ringing the alarms about the return of Taliban in the wake of...

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@Napoha_

7 months

IK is in many ways Pakistan's first modern "Post-Truth" leader. In that,he invents his own "facts" and "truths," & not just sell em but also find millions defending his "Alt-truths." This Donald Lu story was a lie that he thought he could use to blindside the Army Chief & KO..

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@Napoha_

2 years

One thing is for sure,no man in PMLN -not even NS,SS, Hamza et al - rattles IK's cage like Maryam does. Fights him at his own game: crowd-pulling charisma,visceral speeches, abrasive twitter assaults, jalsa power-shows throughout the country. Hence the sexualization & innuendo.

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@Napoha_

8 months

The same way young idealist lawyers with dreams turn out to be touts for the powers that be, lackeys of political giants, purveyors of fabrications and lies, sabotagers of the constitution, and big-ticket Senior Wakeel for Malik Riaz, Rapists, and women killers types.

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@salmanAraja

8 months

I am often invited to lecture under-training officers at various state academies about law & ethics. They look so promising as young men & women. Yet in a few years so many of them turn out to be rascals & tormentors of law & ethics. How does this happen?

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