The pain of the father. The agony of the family. Should
#Hindu
#Muslim
even be mentioned here? Both are let down by the system. Injustice.
#Pakistan
#India
let’s see you compete to see who helps the people better, redresses the wrongs more effectively.
These are stills from two heartbreaking videos that have gone viral, one from
#Pakistan
, one from
#India
. Each symbolises the oppression of those belonging to religious minorities at the hands of criminal elements from the majority faith... …
The pain of the father. The agony of the family. Should
#Hindu
#Muslim
even be mentioned here? Both are let down by the system. Injustice.
#Pakistan
#India
let’s see you compete to see who helps the people better, redresses the wrongs more effectively.
Gul Bukhari's father late Maj Gen Rehmat Ali Shah Bukhari was decorated for the battle of Bahawalnagar 1971. First batch of PMA. One of two Zia era generals who didn't support the coup.
#FreeGulBukhari
@gulbukhari
Journalist colleagues
#India
slanting
@ImranKhanPTI
's release of Wing Cdr
#Abhi
as a sign of India's strength and Pakistan's weakness should be ashamed of themselves. I cringe for them. Sad to see the depths to which people can fall for ratings.
Poignant scene at the London clinic where Nawaz Sharif and daughter Mariam say goodbye to comatose Kulsoom Nawaz. Wish them strength and peace. Whatever his faults MNS has come a long way from being GenZia's protege.
Below: Why I stand in solidarity with junior
#doctors
#India
protesting around the country, demanding postponement of
#NEETPG
, National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Postgraduate) for medical entrance
Many seem to be on Twitter just for this
#POSTPONENEETPG_MODIJl
#NEETPG22
@Doc_Shankari
@MoHFW_INDIA
@mansukhmandviya
@PMOIndia
Old familiar story – authorities refusing to talk to students or hear their demands. Solidarity w your cause. My late father Dr M Sarwar as a medical student led Pakistan’s first nationwide student movement
#DSF
. More about their struggle here
A friend in Delhi has placed an order for 100,000 packets of paracetamol & wants to send 20,000 packets of ready to-eat meals for
#Pakistan
#FloodRelief
.
He will need clearance from India.
Who can make this happen?
#NeedHelp
NEW:
#AmericaNeedsPennsylvania
w/ Bruce
@springsteen
!
Donald Trump arrives in Pennsylvania later today.
We need more than **1 MILLION VIEWS** before he lands.
Please RETWEET and QUOTE RETWEET.
!!! TURN VOLUME UP LOUD !!!
FYI it’s transgender activist Kami Sid. “This banner is an outcry, a refusal against bonded sex labour, a stance to command respect and inclusion. Far from behayaii, it's actually embodied with pain and suffering of generations” -
@nighatdad
“Just as
#NewZealand
PM saying Salam, covering her head or having the Quran recited in Parliament didn’t make
@jacindaardern
a Muslim, participating in others’ religious traditions doesn’t make you a non-Muslim”. Msg re:
#Holi
#Pakistan
In solidarity with
@asmashirazi
and all journalists facing unprecedented
#censorship
and harassment
#Pakistan
. Women journalists in particular are being targeted. Stay strong comrades.
I am so glad & relieved.This is power of tweeple. It all started from my single tweet & within 24 hours
#FayazulHassan
is sacked.
Thank you PM
@ImranKhanPTI
for sending out a clear & loud message that there is no place of bigotry in
#Pakistan
Thank you every one.
#PakistanForAll
Tragic. 8-yo boy beaten to death in madrassa. Silver linings: Police to lodge report against cleric on behalf of State even if family refuses to pursue case. Sindh provincial assembly in Feb 2017 passed law prohibiting
#corporal
punishment. Small steps forward.
How much more ridiculous can it get? Two neighbouring countries who should be working together to resolve their common issues, and grow bilateral trade to increase prosperity in the region, behaving in this childish way. Sad and pathetic.
Indian government officials standing outside the
#Pakistan
High Commission in New Delhi today and informing all Indian invitees that GoI has boycotted the Pakistan National Day programme & requesting them to do the same.
#Pakistan
has established a large holding facility in Taftan at
#Iran
border. “They are well prepared.
@zfrmrza
is doing an excellent job”, a friend tells me, senior health professional visiting the country.
Rumours of
#NankanaSaheb
Gurudwara attacked
#fakenews
#Pakistan
. Friend checked with contacts there, “nothing of this sort happened”. Gurdwara is untouched and undamaged. Provincial govt says it was an...
Why should someone be termed antinational for wanting peace? They are in fact the greatest patriots because they want peace and prosperity for their country and people.
#Pakistan
#India
#TraitorsOfTheWorldUnite
#MashalKhan
#lynching
case
#Pakistan
- some questions: Why is Supreme Court not taking suo moto notice? Why is provincial govt. not providing security and witness protection? Why are media not following the case? Why are two absconders still at large?
Such a treacherous disease
#COVID19
. Claimed a cousin in London Thur; 65, healthy, no health issues. Developed fever, shortness of breath. Ambulance came home Mon. to give oxygen, he decided to go back to hospital with it. Was expecting to be discharged. Then collapsed.
#RIP
Manzoor Pashteen’s comments today (Urdu) against firing by Taliban and then security forces at
#AliWazir
in Wana; 10 people killed, 30 injured. PTM has only demanded constitutional rights.
#shame
#Pakistan
#StopUsingTalibanAgainstPTM
...
#AasiaBibi
acquittal was the only verdict legally possible. But as
@Asma_Jahangir
said when she won
#SalamatMasih
acquittal, don’t celebrate yet, the fight is not over. Mullahs are not concerned with justice. Fasadis on rampage to stay politically relevant.
#Pakistan
#blasphemy
Pls spread msg, highlight case so he can be repatriated
#India
prisoner in
#Pakistan
. 17-18 y.o. boy, arrested 2014, sentence ended May 2015. Still in
#Karachi
jail. All he says is his name is Chevy, son of Lorak
#Bharat
, no info re family or address. Mentally unstable, has TB.
A voter tried to coerced me to declare Ahmadis as non Muslim & I made it clear that my politics doesnt revolve around anyone's religion even if it cost me votes. We wont compromise on principles & adopt populist narratives. Our politics is about equality, Justice and development
Artist, activist
#SadafChughtai
found dead in her sleep Sat. morning
#Lahore
. Had been struggling to
#FindNaaruAlive
. Leaves behind son Sachal, 6-months old when husband
#MudassarNaaru
, poet, filmmaker, journalist disappeared 3 yrs ago.
@HRCP87
demands inquiry into her death.
July 1 is my mother Prof. Zakia Sarwar's 80th birthday. Happy birthday Ammi. May you stay inspirational and smiling. Thank you everyone for your wishes, and Abro for the photo <3
Salute to grace & courage of
@SyedaShehlaRaza
- lost both her young children in a car accident 15 years ago on the third day of Eid near her house. See -
@parhlo
Shame on those using
#socialmedia
to troll her even for this
#Pakistan
#Ahmadis
again boycott polls: Despite joint electorate, there is a separate voter list for them with a form requiring them to first "distance themselves from the Holy Prophet of Islam (PBUH) and this is something that no Ahmadi can countenance"
#Shame
#Election2018
The request for urgent hearing filed in the Sindh High Court against the arrest and enforced disappearance of former
@OfficialMqm
Nisar Panhwar has not been heard even today.
It has been 28 days since Nisar Panhwar went missing, where to go for justice?
#RescueNisarPanhwar
A so-called
#Pakistan
“defence” account photoshopped this image to make it anti-India and posted it from *verified*
@Twitter
handle
@defencepk
. How low can they stoop.
Proud of you
@murtazasolangi
. Witnessed your stellar work over decades as a journalist and upholder of democratic rights. You brought Radio Pakistan into the digital age and made its archives public. Great services to
#Pakistan
🙏🏽
I was part of launch team of reporters of The News in 1991. I worked at night and went to Radio broadcasting school in Wisconsin USA, I served as an International broadcaster at VOA radio,TV and online till 2008 in Washington DC and have never lived in NY. Proud of my hard work.
Journalist colleagues
#India
slanting
@ImranKhanPTI
's release of Wing Cdr
#Abhi
as a sign of India's strength and
#Pakistan
's weakness should be ashamed of themselves. I cringe for them. Sad to see the depths to which people can fall for ratings.
#PakPositive
Look forward to hearing Bilawal Bhutto Zardari speak
@Harvard
, Monday - Pakistan's Youth and the Welfare State: Bilawal Bhutto. Thanks
#SouthAsia
Institute (sorry, can't get used to the new name Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard...
No one can return those years. No one can make up for the suffering she and her family have undergone. What we can do is make sure no one suffers like that again
#Blasphemy
#Pakistan
#AasiaBibi
Thank God that
#Aasiabibi
is free and has joined her family. I can’t even imagine what she has gone through. Decade long [mis]trials, incarceration (including solitary confinement), mental torture, separation from her children. Who will return those years?
Stay well & safe Aasia.
There was a time whn I was struggling to push land mafia out of FatimaJinnahGovtSchool. Today,Aiman frm Grade 8,received 2nd position in nationwide contest
#ArtForChange
,exhibiting @ Khi Arts Council.Hope the Art Curriculum
@zindagitrust
teaches there wil reach al Pak gov schools
Sad to hear about the
#PulwanaAttack
#Kashmir
. Criminal violence. Condolences to the families and friends of those killed or affected
#India
. We in
#Pakistan
know what this suffering is like. Need to work together to end
#terrorism
Don’t let him dictate your political involvement. Be proud of yourself for voting – ok it was for the wrong person. We learn from our mistakes. Next time vote for a better candidate. Hold them accountable. If you give up your political space, someone else will fill the vacuum.
I had voted for imran khan first time I voted for anyone in my life and now I can say that was the worst decision I have ever made. i am not gonna vote for any political party
#AbQuettaNahiGharJao
Reminds me of Musharraf
#emergency2007
when he shut down all the TV channels. We had
@TalatHussain12
host a show on the sidewalk outside Karachi Press Club.
The non-existent state of press freedoms & civil liberties in Pakistan.
@manzoorpashteen
had a meeting scheduled with journalists at Isb Press Club but the club secretary locked down the whole building to refuse him entry. Now meeting in a park outside surrounded by police.
#AsmaJahangir
never cared for officialdom or honours. But I agree with those who say
#Pakistan
should declare official mourning and salute in tribute to her struggles for democracy, constitutional rule, civil and
#humanrights
, women’s and minority rights, peace and justice.
Candlelight vigil and protest to condemn
#MastungBlast
and express solidarity with victim families.
Sat. 14 July, 5:30 pm at National Press Club
#Islamabad
.
Bring placards, flowers, candles
-- Message received from a young activist,
#Pakistan
The arrest of Mir Shakilur Rahman, the editor-in-chief of the Jang media group, Pakistan, has taken place without a free trial or a conviction against him. Not only has the trial not even begun, but no charges have even been framed against him. - Noam Chomsky
#FreeMSR
1/5
#FreeShahidul
.
#Bangladesh
Don’t oppose bail.
Shahidul belongs on the streets and in slums documenting, working, playing with children, in seminars and workshops teaching
#photography
- not in jail.
Please share.
DAY 28 of the Illegal detention of my father, Former Parliamentarian of Pakistan,My father Nisar Panhwar was illegally abducted by the LEA’s of Pakistan and still not shown in the court of law, Severe Violation of Human Rights and Constitution of Pakistan.
#RescueNisarPanhwar
Over 70 journalists, editors, columnists, media persons and media freedom organisation representatives in Pakistan express serious concern and condemn the ongoing curbs on freedom of...
Proud of my 81-year old mother Prof. Zakia Sarwar (in middle of first photo, with pink pom pom hat) - standing in the cold in
#Solidarity
with
#Shia
#Hazara
#Pakistan
While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last—because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.
My bright beautiful cousin has left us, taken by
#Covid
. She'd gone to
#Gilgit
to conduct a teacher training 2 weeks ago, caught what seemed to be a cold, developed fever. Flew back to
#Karachi
Wed. Collapsed Fri. morning, was rushed to AKUH. By night she was gone.
#RIP