Just had a Standard Chartered Bank rep tell me that the TWO female witnesses on the Zakat declaration form I submitted will be counted as ONE. Just because they are women.
Each woman's gawahi is being considered as 1/2 of a man.
My mouth literally dropped. Couldn't process it
Me: "My new documentary film is out! You can see it now." 😊
Family: "Will we see you in it?"
Me: "Err no. I'm a producer. I'm never in front of the camera."
Fam: "Tum to bus chor hi do. Phir kya faida dekhne ka?!"
Me: ....
Sharing this because I believe that by speaking out about my own experience of sexual harassment, I will break the culture of silence that permeates through our society. It is not easy to speak out.. but it is harder to stay silent. My conscience will not allow it anymore
#MeToo
"Yes, ma'am. Each woman's testimony is 0.5 of a man."
Are you a bank or the shariat court? "We got this from our head office."
National Bank of Pakistan accepted two women = two testimonies. So did HBL.
What is wrong with SCB? What century are we living in? Beyond offended
The court issues
@itsmeeshashafi
a gag order preventing her from talking about publicly, but Ali is free to address the press & public and say whatever he wants?
She can’t even respond to the claims he’s making using the same medium!
How is that fair?
This is my mother watching a livestream of her mother’s funeral in San Diego last night.
Pandemic, catastrophic rains & urban flooding, disruption in communication tech cutting us off completely only for it to be restored in time for this — to be ‘there’ for this. For closure.
Was at Ziauddin today for some tests.
Saw a group of doctors near the (cleared out) entrances in PPE’s ready to receive (what looked like) an 11-12 year old Covid-19 +ve kid who looked critical.
It was awful.
Attempts to downplay how bad this virus is are absolutely heinous.
@ZarrarKhuhro
@adnanrasool
@sabizak
Fahad Mustafa is playing a dirty cop in the film. The term ‘Quaid-e-Azam Zindabad’ refers to bribery.
Where did ISPR come in all of this? What am I missing?
• My cousin, her children & her in laws whom she lives w/ are Covid-19 +ve. She’s in Federal B Area, Karachi
• Friend in Peshawar was Covid-19 +ve. Just recovered. Says he’s never experienced anything like it.
• Mom lost 3 from her group to Covid-19. They passed last week.
@m_khurram_saeed
@Ali_Madeeh
@mansoorjadoon
"A doctor started this."
Lawyer hain. Case file karein. Yeh kya ghunda gardi ko justify kar rahay hain?
"Docs did nothing less then what lawyers have done today"
Are u kidding me? They forced patients out of emergency, stopped operations&removed oxygen masks from patients?!
@YoursLegallyy
Thank you for compiling all of the tweets. Jab ronay ka dil chahe ga, to yehi parh longi.
I only have one surviving grandparent who migrated during the Partition. I was about to call her up and be like: Yeh din dekhney ke liye aap yahan aye hain? (FYI I'd get a pitai in return)
Excellent news! “These indigenously established assays are robust, sensitive to the target, and would soon be available at one fourth the price of imported ones.”
@mSaleemJaved
@TahaSSiddiqui
@ShabbirTuri
From on top of the factory makes sense.
Yeah. Can’t watch it for more than a few seconds. Worked on a couple of blasphemy films & spent hours reviewing similar footage. It’s incredibly sad to see nothing has changed. Nothing. It keeps happening again and again.
@AashaBisht
@MiraPagliNair
Aap bohat pathar dil Aunty hain iss ka matlab yeh nahin ke sab hain.
Thori sharam kar leyn. Mulq mein dekhain kya ho raha hai. Apney co-citizens ki tarha awaz uthain. Nahin hota, Woh alag baat hai.
@paneeripatakhay
That’s not Karachi. That’s just a small part of the city thinks they live the best life and they represent Karachi as a whole. Shadeed khush fehmi.
@nighatdad
I just can’t believe most of the comments you’re getting on this. Clearly what the man did was beyond gross and 100% sexual harassment.
If you just said it, they wouldn’t have believed you and would’ve asked for proof. When you present proof, then how dare you?!
Started choking on some breakfast. Coughing and wheezing, tried to grab a glass & get water.
Mom calmly watched my struggle unfold. Didn’t budge an inch.
Me: “Are you kidding me?! I could’ve died.”
Mum, sipping her tea: “We all need to die... to learn how to live.”
Me: ...
@monaeltahawy
@Twitter
I thought a potbelly and unhealthy waist were bad diet & lack of exercise.
Or a hormonal imbalance at worst.
Can’t believe I had it wrong this entire time. 🤦🏻♀️
Heart goes out to the cops risking their lives, trying to keep our streets safe and getting injured & dying on the job.
The photos/videos coming in are absolutely heartbreaking.
One of my doctors is critically ill & on a ventilator at a hospital in Karachi.
I met him over a month ago for a consult, he was perfectly healthy & in v good spirits. It's hard to imagine the same person is now fighting for his life.
A doctor. One of those that fix/help us.
Hai. Suddenly I'm being bombarded with responses by VERY small men who believe that being born with a penis = somehow makes them superior.
Zindagi mein kuch karna nahin hai. Paida ho gaye buss unke liye itna kaafi hai.
Masla yeh hai keh yeh loag bohat farigh bhi hain.
Drone footage of the oil slick along the shores of Mubarak Village.
@ShahUnee
is just returning from the site and details on her account the devastating impact this has had on local wildlife.
You can see her holding a dead crab covered in oil and tar in one of the photos.
I'm living with the in-laws, many of whom are in the twilight of their life. & they want is for you to spend time with them.
Nothing material or tangible matters. They want to tell you their stories and they want to hear yours.
& there never seems to be enough time for everyone
🔴 Punjab bans shooting of films, dramas at mosques and shrines:
“The auqaf department's notification goes on to specify that no cinematography featuring a woman in a shrine or mosque will be permitted.”
🔴 It took a while for this to sink in. At around 7am on March 5, 2024 I summited Mt Kilimanjaro (5,895m) — Africa's highest peak & the highest freestanding mountain in the world. 🏔️
My summit photos are all of me trying not to cry coz the view was so unbelievably beautiful. ♥️
@nighatdad
They’re more offended with the fact that you filmed a man (while concealing his identity no less so it’s not like anyone is going to know who it is).
Rather than be offended by him constantly SCRATCHING HIS BALLS NEXT TO YOU & IN PUBLIC like that!
Wow. Just wow.
Enjoyed taking a trip down memory lane with this old radio documentary, ‘Nusrat Was My Elvis’, by
@navidakhtar
on
@bbcradio4
and listening to people around the world, that he collaborated with, talk about how his voice moved/influenced them.
We have been w/o electricity for over 24 hours now. It’s OK.
I feel v privileged. Unlike many others, our home didn’t fall apart & wasn’t flooded. We have food, water & fuel.
It’s not too hot but we take occasional phone charging breaks in the car.
Yeh waqt bhi guzar jaey ga.
@NidaKirmani
@AmmarRashidT
They don’t actually. Are you even familiar with the local rap scene? Or even Faris’s body of work?
A lot of music genres have come out from underprivileged neighbourhoods. Not just rap. It includes R&B, funk, soul, jazz & hip hop. Woh genres bhi limit kar deyn dosron ke liye? 🤔
• A friend from Federal B Area just found out a neighbour has tested positive for Covid-19.
I’d often meet sceptics and conspiracy theorists who’d always say: “But do you actually know anyone who has Covid-19?!”
Yes. YES. By now we all do. Will people now take this seriously?
🔴 This ‘article’ by a Mr Brig Ghulam Mohammad Mohtaram on the urban flooding in Karachi has been completely ripped off from my friend’s (Umayr Tariq Jamil, also a writer) Facebook post.
Word-for-word. Wow. Just, wow.
Link to the plagiarised post:
10 days of social distancing & family is starting to crack:
Dad tried sneaking out to the mosque (which is closed🤔). Mom caught him in the driveway. Brought him back.
Sister & bro-in-law tried going out on bicycles. Got caught by police as they were stepping out the gate! 😂
With deep sense of devotion to the cause of Wildlife Department
#GovernmentofSindh
, we cheerfully announce that 'Sobharo the Victoriois'
#bear
has reached National Bear Rehabilitation Sanctuary' after covering almost 1200 kilometers distance. 1/3
Wanted to give a shout-out to Prof Rumina Hasan, Ghazala Shaheen, Dania Saeed, Dr Sadia Shakoor & Prof Zahra Hasan, the excellent (& all-female) research team that identified the XDR typhoid strain, the treatment & are working with govt to contain it.
#Pak
"Films like Joyland are banned because 'image-conscious' countries like Pakistan have plenty of skeletons in the closet."
Excellent article by
@fahadnaveed
🔴 Wanted to pay a little tribute to mum, who at 66, is ready to wrestle me to the ground — in a saree no less — if I dare even hint that ‘old’ age might be slowing her down...
Happy Mother’s Day, you feisty creature, you.
@NidaKirmani
@AmmarRashidT
Sure. I understand the point you’re trying to make but it doesn’t apply to *this* situation.
Also, rap wasn’t invented in Lyari. It’s not indigenous
Although artists/groups from Lyari have a strong presence in the rap music scene here. It’s something they coopted from abroad.
🔴 Did some late season dives to remove dangerous ghost nets & was greeted by these super friendly long-fin bat fish.
Dive was magical. I’m still in awe of how stunning our seas are— especially the coasts that have *not* been developed/destroyed by humans.
#Balochistan
#Pakistan
⚫️ What bothers me is that everything was normal again in
#Quetta
just a couple of hours after the bomb explosion in Hazarganji that killed 20 people and injured 48 others.
No disruption in traffic. No added security. Life went on as usual. Almost as if it had never happened.
@karachikhatmal
@FahadNaveed
Discovered the song on Instagram but wahan pe saray Danyal ko aakhirat ka durr aur firangi model sahiba ko Islam ki dawat de rahay hain.
The comments here are hilarious! 😂😂😂😂 Thank you!
Will never stop being shocked that
@WomensHealthMag
is blocked in Pakistan.
Do we not have women in Pakistan? Is educating yourself about their health against the "culture & values" of our country? Does women's health pose a "national security threat"?
I really want to know.
The streets have quickly filled with panicked people trying to get supplies for this very surprise Eid tomorrow.
It was all quite deserted until a couple of minutes ago. Now, it’s mayhem.
Pakistani (including expats) muslim men who were just giving me a dars about my place as a woman + admonishing me for questioning why a woman's testimony is 1/2 that of a man + how to practise my faith etc...
PLEASE stop sliding into my DMs. You're embarrassing yourselves.
🔴 A clip from our film that's going on air today on
@BBCWorld
(4.30pm UK & 8.30pm
#Pakistan
) about a local legend, Guru Ashee
"In a country where it's expected that your extended family will look after you in your old age, what do you do if they rejected you a long time ago?"