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I own a rusty bicycle. 2023 Fellow @AsiaSpeaks .

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Usman
5 years
I’ve been married to my wife for almost 13-years, we’ve travelled everywhere, watched 100s of shows, weaved through every emotion possible & had three kids & in all that time I haven’t drunk a drop of tea, and yet every time it is served anywhere, she asks me if I want some.
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I got tagged into an unfortunate discussion about Prof Abdus Salam today and I just want to say that I genuinely don’t care what any of you think, this man is a hero & source of pride for this country and nothing you say or do can change that. His memory will outlast your hatred.
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3 years
Overseas Pakistanis living abroad can now vote, but Ahmadis living in Pakistan still can’t. And that’s all you need to know about that.
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4 years
Ansar Abbasi.
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SwamiRumdev 🥃
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What's stopping you from doing this with your partner
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Thread: I left Pakistan when I was two years old, sitting on the lap of my mother, journeying from Punjab into Sindh and then Karachi and finally London, shortly after General Zia ul Haq passed his infamous Ordinance against Ahmadis in April 1984. /1
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3 years
Arshad Nadeem is nothing but an absolute hero. To fight it out alone to become the fifth best javelin thrower in the world with barely any funding, institutional support or facilities, is an absolutely incredible achievement.
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I mean the Germans do have a tendency to be on the wrong side of history so 🤷🏻‍♂️
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ian bremmer
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brandenburg gate, berlin right now quite a statement from the german government
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2 years
The state of present day Pakistan summed up in two tweets:
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2 years
Is it foreign hands who bully Shia kids in school? Is it foreign hands who refuse to drink or eat from the same utensils as Christians? Is it foreign hands that put up signs on shops prohibiting entry to Ahmadis? And is it foreign hands who forcibly convert minor Hindu girls?
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3 years
Pakistan is ranked among the worst ten countries in the world for minorities, among the five worst countries in the world for women, and 148th when it comes to ranking how countries treat their child population - this is our culture.
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This is how the Holocaust happened. This is how the Rwandan genocide happened. This is how Srebrenica happened. The world just calmly stood by and let the horrors unfold. We don't deserve anything, we really don't
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4 years
Every Ahmadi in this country has a story. Every Shia in this country has a story. Every Christian in this country has a story. Every Hindu in this country has a story. Every Sikh in this country has a story. Every Parsi in this country has a story - you all just refuse to listen.
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4 years
Recently a guy came into my mentions saying that Ahmadis were worse than pedophiles. I asked him, in that case, would he be happy to swap the 500,000 or so Ahmadis who live in Pakistan with 500,000 child abusers and he said yes, which really summed up present day Pakistan for me.
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1 year
I mean New York only has 275 mosques in the city, and Islam clearly emphasises praying in congregation rather than alone, and numerous hadith speak about the rights of pedestrians and not obstructing public pathways, but hey mashAllah bro.
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Farid Khan
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Mohammad Rizwan stopped his car and offered namaz on the street in US 🇺🇲 Ma Shaa Allah ❤️
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2 years
Aristotle gets it.
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3 years
Ah the good old days. If you know, you know.
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4 years
I’m genuinely confused about how Islam survived 1400 years without the help of the Punjab provincial assembly. There isn’t enough academic scholarship on this most vital of questions.
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2 years
You know how sometimes people ask what fresh hell is this - well here is a fantastic opportunity to raise that question again.
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4 years
Another brilliant restoration job from the Sindh government.
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3 years
Also Sir TikTok is actually banned in Pakistan.
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Imran Khan
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I want the youth of Pakistan to watch the race and learn the most important lesson that sports taught me: "you only lose when u give up."
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Our youngest daughter spent almost all of today social distancing herself inside a shoebox.
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3 years
Did you even have a desi childhood if you didn’t grow up eating these sandwiches stuffed with the previous nights leftovers. The qeema ones were always sublime.
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Yasser Hashmi
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Flying Saucer. Stuffed with aloo keema and about to slobbered in ketchup. #WinterFood Best stuffing is actually mattar keema. Also I have a fancy electric maker and not the chimta you held over a burner.
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It 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 not👏🏽 anti-semitism 👏🏽 to 👏🏽 condemn 👏🏽 the 👏🏽 state 👏🏽 of 👏🏽Israel 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 its 👏🏽 human 👏🏽 rights 👏🏽 violations 👏🏽 and 👏🏽 brutal 👏🏽 polices 👏🏽 against 👏🏽 the 👏🏽 Palestinian 👏🏽 people.
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4 years
Neither one is in any position to talk about how the other treats it’s minorities. An absolute race to the bottom between the two of them.
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NDTV
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India Slams Pakistan For Persecuting Hindus, Sikhs And Other Minorities
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4 years
Came across this picture of Asia Bibi today on here and it is pure joy. She didn’t let them win and that makes me so happy.
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2 years
What short memories. There is absolutely nothing Ali Muhammad Khan could do that would make me have an respect for him.
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4 years
Despite all the hatred Khadim Hussain Rizvi targeted towards our community and others, it’s difficult to take any satisfaction in a person’s death. In any case the problem of extremism in Pakistan is far bigger than just one person & the struggle against it has a long way to go.
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3 years
Anyone remember these? Just about the greatest thing ever.
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4 years
With A-level results still pretty much dominating my timeline, I just want to say that grades genuinely don’t matter. I didn’t get anything remotely close to an A in my GCSEs or my A-levels and I still managed to go to Cambridge for an iftaar one time.
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3 years
A Christian family attacked by a 200-strong mob in District Okara. No point raising your voice for beleaguered people abroad if this is how you are going to continue to treat minority communities back home.
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3 years
After today if anyone ever says to me again they they prefer summer in Pakistan over winter I’m blocking them out of my life forever.
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3 years
As Muharram begins - total solidarity and love with the Shia Community. I hope the month ahead is one of reflection, healing, prayer and togetherness for you all.
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7 months
New crack just opened up in the multiverse of madness.
@PakYouth4Israel
Pakistani Youth For Israel
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Israel is a legitimate state” "Allah assigned the land to them (Jewish)” Follow @PakYouth4Israel
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4 years
My grandfather had four daughters, he was the most religious and spiritual man I’ve seen closely, all he ever did was empower them. So please don’t mix you misogyny with religion.
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3 years
The pandemic was the perfect opportunity to normalise small intimate weddings - but oh no we still feel the need to invite the entire family, their extended families, the whole ancestral village, the next 12 neighbouring villages and the token 200 people we’ve never even met.
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3 years
Anyway, there has never been a more likeable Pakistani cricket team in my lifetime, I would say that was a massive win in itself.
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3 years
Err hate to be that guy but people here really need to stop hailing the Pakistani passport as “elite” because it doesn’t recognise Israel - you guys do know you have to sign up to a domestic form of apartheid to be able to get one right? Doesn’t sound very elite to me.
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2 years
How is anyone meant to survive in a country where even QR codes are blasphemous?
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9 years
This one Ahmadi has done more for Pakistan than all the protestors at Hafeez Center put together.
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3 years
Ye koi district nazim ka election poster lag raha hai.
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3 years
👑 𝑪𝑯𝑨𝑴𝑷𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺 👑 #T20WorldCup #T20WorldCupFinal
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2 years
Aamir Liaquat has more wives than Ahmadis have rights in Pakistan.
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3 years
Oh come on man 🤦🏽‍♂️ - I’m just never tweet anything ever again. No one gets me.
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3 years
A moment that felt like a painting
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A moment that felt like a painting
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3 years
These Pakistani bakery biscuits are properly elite.
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4 years
The story of Pakistan told in two tweets.
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2 years
Pakistani men filming women on the streets & uploading the videos on Tik-Tok is becoming quite the epidemic in Turkey. I would say it’s embarrassing, but it’s far more than that & is symptomatic of a deep rooted ill prevalent in our society which no one is willing to confront.
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4 years
Anyone else absolutely love desi-Chinese and think of it as the ultimate comfort food?
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3 years
Why is it that people refused to believe Aasia Bibi was innocent of blasphemy even after she was exonerated by the highest court of Pakistan, but when a guy is literally caught red handed and accused of murdering a woman, everyone all of a sudden chooses not to accept he did it?
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4 years
Normalise small desi weddings with just close friends and selected family.
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3 years
This is not Switzerland, this is Pakistan.
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2 years
Ran across the most gorgeous bookshop today.
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Usman
3 years
Until Malala liberates Kashmir, frees Palestine and changes her name to Ertugrul Yousafzai - her haters whose main achievement in life is either having their mum find some to marry them, or making the same Burnol jokes for 6 years straight - will find a reason to attack her.
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2 years
It was easier to remove Donald Trump, Imran Khan, and Boris Johnson than it was to remove Usman Buzdar. Just let that sink in. Legend.
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3 years
So as a minority in Pakistan can I just take this opportunity to apologise to everyone for giving the country a bad name. I’m truly sorry. We will try to suffer in silence from now on.
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2 years
Surah Duha has always been my favourite chapter of the Quran. It’s so intimate and raw, and speaks to my heart and every part of my life - “did he not find you an orphan and give you shelter? Did he not find you lost and then guided you?”
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Ahmadi and proud. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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3 years
It’s easy to blame Molvis when incidents like Sialkot happen, but it isn’t just Molvis who sign passport declarations against Ahmadis & refuse them entry into shops, or who refuse to rent property to Christians & Hindus, or think it’s okay to call Shias kafir; this is all of us.
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Our daughter took part in an art competition and came first...in the whole of Punjab. Like the entire province. So that's definitely something to be proud of.
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Muslim countries are getting too much of a free ride. They too are enablers of the genocide of the Palestinian people, and one day they will be made to answer for it.
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3 years
If Rahim Yar Khan was in Canada, @ShireenMazari1 would have been all over today’s attack - if you agree press horn.
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1 year
The best way to understand your place in this world is through international visa processes and requirements.
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5 years
I know I tend to make fun of my American family a lot and they hate me for it, but absolute kudos to the bravery and courage of one of my nieces who led numerous school kids to safety at local Ahmadiyya Mosque during yesterday’s school attack in Oshkosh. Nothing but respect.
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3 years
Warner was just under too much pressure after Nadeem Haque told him Alexander the Great conquered the world aged 17.
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3 years
I love how the Prime Minister thinks he can just replace dead women with trees and that’ll sort everything.
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An Ahmadi once told me that they couldn’t remember a time when the front gate of their parents house wasn’t graffitied with the word kafir. Every time they rubbed it out, somebody would come back and write it again, to the point that they just stopped trying to erase it.
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We went from boycotting everything French & holding violent street protests to get the Ambassador of France kicked out of Pakistan for the sake of Islam and the Prophet, to building an Eiffel Tower in Gujranwala all in the space of a couple of months. Totally normal country this.
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3 years
The official Nobel Prize Twitter account tweeted this about Prof Abdus Salam today, without mentioning his religion or anything, and then just like clockwork…
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3 years
“Aik heera tha jo ab hum se judda ho giya hai.” Ya rabb humara bohat hee piyara bhai aur dost ab tere hawale. Goodbye mate. You couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful tribute and send off. Take the laughter with you wherever you go.
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4 years
One of the most incredible US election maps you are likely to see.
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4 years
The tragedy of Pakistan told in two tweets.
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3 years
A sincere appeal to all Pakistani celebrities and politicians: Please for the sake of all that is good and pure in this world, I am actually begging you to stop quoting Hitler!!
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2 years
As critical as I have been of IK particularly on minority rights, I still feel sad for him in this moment. Maybe he wanted to be better, maybe he strove for more, I don’t know, but he failed to live up to all the hope he once promised, and in some way that a tragedy for all of us
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4 years
Okay no more landscapes. Drop your best street shots here. I’m going to start things off with two of my favourites, beginning with this shot of passengers on a bus in Multan.
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3 years
Let’s be honest, a culture of hostility and oppression against women and minorities has existed for decades in Pakistan, but what Imran Khan and the PTI have done is taken it into overdrive and justified and normalised it in a way that is quite unprecedented for modern times.
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4 years
Can we please please start waking up to the fact that Molvis have destroyed the peace of our country ever since it was created, a country they never wanted to see come into existence, and one which they ended up hijacking for themselves. They are a cancer and scourge.
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4 years
Why are people mocking the DC of Hafizabad? For meaning well? For thinking outside the box? For trying to raise awareness about the coronavirus as best as he thought possible? You don’t have to be snarky about every single little thing.
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1 year
You don’t have to be a PTI supporter to acknowledge IK’s his arrest is dangerous and reprehensible act of state overreach the repercussions of which affect all of us.
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4 years
So basically Pakistan is going to recognise Israel before it recognises its own Ahmadi citizens. Righty-o.
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3 years
Ahmadis are forbidden to publicly discuss their faith, almost all Ahmadi literature is banned, Ahmadi beliefs aren’t taught at schools, and any discussion is mostly conducted by prejudiced clerics & yet so many Pakistanis confidently claim to know exactly what Ahmadis believe.
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3 years
The silence of Pakistan’s religious right has been pretty telling this past week - always standing with the Palestinians except when it actually counts.
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4 years
For all the trendsetters and governments ministers who are saying that Ahmadis are traitors to Pakistan, just this one Ahmadi has done more for this country, for its creation and establishment and for the securing of its future than all of these many haters combined.
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2 years
Now it feels like Eid.
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4 years
“...and I fell in love with him right away...” We all did.
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Pakistan after stopping Ahmadis from celebrating Eid.
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I love how as an Ahmadi I don’t even have to say anything - my very life, my every breath, my every movement, my every pause, and my every action is blasphemous. The very fact of my existence is the blasphemy.
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4 years
Are Ahmadis allowed to buy the new Islamic mattress?
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2 years
Be as critical of Imran Khan and the PTI all you want, and God knows I have been, but in 2022 one of the Sharif brothers should not once again be the Prime Minister of Pakistan. We really should have moved beyond this point by now.
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4 years
This actually makes complete and perfect sense.
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4 years
When people find out I’m an Ahmadi.
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1 year
Allah does not permit human trafficking either.
@Cobratate
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“Allah does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear." [Surah Baqarah : 286]
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4 years
Just a reminder that Arzoo Raja is still in the “legal” custody of her abusers while the rest of us are happily getting along with our lives. This has to stop. Something has to be done.
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4 years
Difficult to get a more complete and perfect breakfast I think.
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The Lahore High Court Bar Assocation calls on the police and law enforcement authorities to take strict action against any Ahmadis making animal sacrifices this Eid. And they say that minorities enjoy sanctuary and religious freedom in Pakistan.
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We remember and pray for them all. They will always be a part of us. Their lives mattered just as much as anyone else’s.
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3 years
Imran Khan’s legacy is basically going to be silence, complicity, failure and an avocado tree.
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Biryani is the most overrated food of all time and it’s okay to say that because no one is allowed to follow me anymore.
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Usman
3 years
I didn’t see any beasts. I saw regular everyday people who have been brainswashed and weaponised by decades of religious hatred, and your party is just as much to blame as everyone else.
@MashwaniAzhar
Azhar Mashwani
3 years
Around 50 beasts involved in #Sialkot incident have been arrested so far. RPO and Commissioner Gujranwala are in Sialkot and conducting inquiry. Inquiry will be finalized in 48 hours. CCTV footages and NADRA's face recognition techniques will be used to arrest all the culprits.
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I made one
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2 years
Aasia Bibi spent a longer time in prison than this for a fabricated charge of blasphemy.
@aClockworkObi
Osman Khalid Butt 🇵🇸
2 years
Qandeel Baloch's murderer walks free today after serving less than six years of his life sentence. He is on record admitting to drugging and murdering his sister. Someone please make this make sense to me.
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Err, sorry your but your party was among those leading the charge against Atif Mian when he was first appointed by the PTI because of his religion. You don’t get to reclaim him now.
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