Operation Azm-i-Istehkam faces unique challenges: no political consensus, lack of public support, a resurgent TTP with Afghan safe havens, economic woes, and reduced U.S. backing—marking a stark contrast to Operation Zarb-e-Azb a decade ago. I report
Scenes from Karachi’s Quaidabad area, where hundreds of people are marching to get rations. Where is the
#Sindh
govt and its
#lockdown
? Where is
#SocialDistancing
?
ویسے کراچی کے علاقے گلستان جوہر میں ہونے والا یہ واقعہ کسی ڈرامہ شوٹنگ کا حصہ ہر گز نہیں۔ ملزمان گھر کی دہلیز پر کھڑے لڑکیوں کواسلحہ دکھا کر فون اور ہینڈ بیگ چھین کر لے گئے ۔
PPP MNA Jam Abdul Karim, an absconder in a case of murdering citizen journalist Nazim Jokhio for filming foreign hunters, arrived in Pakistan from Dubai to cast his vote in no-trust motion against PM Imran Khan. Sindh High Court gave him a protective bail of 10 days.
Today when police reportedly tried to stop a Friday prayer congregation at a mosque forcibly in
#Karachi
’s Liaquatabad, residents reacted violently.
#lockdown
#SocialDistancing
.
Two teams of young girls from Karachi's Lyari and Malir neighborhoods, known as 'mini Brazil' for its football craze, took part in a tournament where 10 teams of boys were also participating. Lyari’s girl team won the final.
It is how Karachi police deal the protestors who dare to march towards Chief Minister House to register the peaceful protest. Today, teachers faced it. Awami Hukoomat.
‘میں نے جام اویس پر اندھا اعتماد کیا اور اپنے بھائی ناظم کو اس کے پاس لے گیا۔ اس نے کفن میں میرا بھائی واپس کیا ہے، مجھے معلوم نہیں تھا کہ انسان کی زندگی سے تلور زیادہ اہم ہے۔‘
@RiazSangi
“The Sindh government didn’t even provide us the ambulance for bringing them to Quetta. No one from the Balochistan govt has visited us so far. It seems that the policemen were Pakistanis and we are aliens.” by
@NKMalazai
پاکستان میں ایسے ایسے افغانستان کے’ایکسپرٹس‘ ابھرکرسامنے ارہے ہیں جنہوں نے افغانستان تو دور کی بات، اپنے شہروں میں قائم افغان مہاجرین کے کیمپ بھی اپنی زندگی میں نہیں دیکھے ہونگے۔
“PM Abbasi never lived in the PM House, preferring to live in his own home in Islamabad. When he would sometimes go to friends’ home for dinner in the evening, there would be no large entourage of motor vehicles behind him”.
@MiftahIsmail
writes
And suddenly Pakistani Twitterati has become experts on Indian electoral politics. I know some of them who even don't know the number of their own constituency.
#IndianElections2019
😀
افغانستان میں طالبان حکومت کی تشکیل کی حمایت کرنے والے پاکستانی اپنے ملک میں جماعت اسلامی یا کسی دوسری مزہبی جماعت کے کونسلر تک کوبرداشت کرنے کو تیار نہیں ہوتے۔
شفیق ایڈووکیٹ نے کہا کہ انھیں اغوا کرنے والے سوال کرتے رہے کہ منظور پشتین اور پی ٹی ایم سے ان کا کیا تعلق ہے اور کیا وہ ان کی فنڈنگ میں کسی طرح ملوث ہیں؟ اغوا کرنے والے انھیں بھکر کے قریب بیابان میں چھوڑ کر چلے گئے۔
It is 2021, not 1996. The Afghan youth born in the past 2 decades connected globally through social media and studying happenings/campaigns around the world will resist the Taliban. This time, it will not easy for the Taliban.
چیف جسٹس نے ساجد گوندل کی ماں کی طرف اشارہ کرتے ہوئے کہااس ماں کا میں کیا کروں جو عدالت میں میرے سامنے کھڑی ہے۔ وزارت داخلہ کے لوگ ہاوسنگ سوسائیٹی کے کیسز میں لگے ہیں، وہ لوگوں کے نہیں زمینوں کے کاروبار کے فیصلے کررہے ہیں ۔آپ لوگ مکمل طور پرناکام ہوگئے ہیں
At least six ministers in the
#Taliban
’s interim cabinet for
#Afghanistan
had studied at Pakistan’s Jamia Haqqania seminary (Akora Khattak), a religious scholar affiliated with the madrassa said.
Our mentor, editor, friend
@titojourno
sb passed away early this morning. Life is so unbelievable. Yesterday afternoon
@zburki
and I met him and gossiped a lot. He was gem of a person, always with a smiling face. RIP Talat sb.
And after 10 days of her appointment, the female SHO Sharafat Khan was assaulted by a group of mosque-goers when she tried to enforce govt’s ban and restrict them to congregating at the mosque for Friday prayers.
#Karachi
#lockdown
اے این پی نےحالیہ مرکزی کونسل کے اجلاس میں PDM سے نکلنے کافیصلہ کردیا تھا کیونکہ پارٹی سمجھتی ہے کہ اتحاد سے KP میں JUI-F مضبوط ہورہی ہے جوائندہ انتخابات میں ANP کے لئے مسائل کھڑی کرسکتی ہے۔ کرم ونوشہرہ کےضمنی انتخبات میں امیدوارکھڑے کرنا اسی پالیسی کاحصہ تھی۔ (کونسل رکن)
PPP approaches FIA Cyber Wing against a woman who goes by the name of Cynthia D Richie (
@CynthiaDRitchie
) for posting derogatory and slanderous remarks about former PM Benazir Bhutto on Twitter. (press release)
If minister port and shipping
@AliHZaidiPTI
is free from his publicity campaign, please ask him to visit Karachi Press Club where hundreds of Port Qasim dock workers- most of them elderly - have been sitting on protest for their demands.
Fear the Minister who rides a motorbike into Kemari dock unannounced & without any security detail to inspect progress of work being carried!😊
May Allah protect him and all of us.
@AliHZaidiPTI
اسد مینگل بلوچستان کے سابق وزیر اعلیٰ عطااللہ مینگل کے بڑے فرزند اور اختر مینگل کے بڑے بھائی تھے، جن کی عمر 19 سال تھی وہ کراچی میں نیشنل کالج میں زیر تعلیم تھے۔اسد مینگل کو سیاسی بنیادوں پر بلوچستان کا پہلا جبری لاپتہ نوجوان قرار دیا جاتا ہے۔
@RiazSangi
With the winning of Alamgir Mehsud from
#NA243
, a Urdu-speakers majority constituency and former MQM heartland, now
#Karachi
has six Pashtun MNAs out of total 21 NA seats.
#Diversity
#Change
Thanks
@Google
for honoring Karachi’s urban rights activist and planner Perween Rahman with doodle on birthday. She was murdered for protecting the city’s land by documenting it from the mafia
When he is not present now to reply your claims, it is unnecessary to share it. Second, it is responsibility of your party’s govt in the province to protect political leaders.
Really sad to hear about Ali Raza Abdi
@abidifactor
. Had many meetings with him which we both didn't share with media. He was about to join PPP before GE 2018.
May God give their parents courage to bear this irreparable loss.
Inna lilahe wa ina ilehe rajeoon
Karachi's four colleges that Sindh government named after members of Bhutto family's three generations– Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Nusrat Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, and Aseefa Bhutto Zardari – have produced 0% results in recent inter-exams.
@Arshadyousafzay
Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan’s MPA submitted a resolution in Sindh Assembly, demanding the federal govt to repeal the act protecting the transgender persons’ rights and passed in 2018 from National Assembly.
Thread:
Body of
#SajidHussain
, our varsity friend, and a fellow journalist, has been found today in Sweden. I am sharing some of his explosive journalistic work (among many others) published in The News about
#Balochistan
that has landed him into trouble. 1
Geo administration has sacked its Karachi bureau chief Fahim Siddiqui, (who is also president of the Karachi Union of Journalists) from his job because he campaigned to increase the workers’ salaries in the organization, it has learnt.
.
@BBhuttoZardari
asked Sindh minister
@SyedNasirHShah
to visit Bajaur to attend funerals of three labourers killed in Larkana yesterday. Great gesture. (Photo by PPP media cell)
At midnight, unknown individuals inscribed praises for Allah on Central Brooks Church's wall in Karachi, phoot shared bya Christian friend. If church removes it, there's risk of sparking blasphemy rumors, potential violence, akin to
#Jaranwala
where 19 Churches were damaged.
Haroon Bilour's wife announced contesting the forthcoming election from PK-78 Peshawar, the same constituency her husband had also been contesting the polls from.
Darul Uloom Haqqania madrasa, one of Pakistan’s largest and oldest seminaries, has educated more Taliban leaders than any school in the world. Now its alumni hold key positions in Afghanistan. My latest for
@nytimes
3 key trends emerged from
#PashtunLongMarch2Peshawar
. (1) PTM organised successful rally without support of Khans (landlords) & contractors, (2) used the medium of social media succesfully for mobilization/publicity (3) attracted disillusioned Pashtun youth of Pashtun pol parties
We received awards at an event at PILER Center marking 6th anniversary of Baldia factory fire that killed 258 workers. Various labour rights groups held the event to thanks all those who helped the workers’ families get their compensations. Great honor for us.
When IK says MQM’s ministers are most sophisticated in his cabinet, I agree with him. How would you compare them with Murad Saeed, Shiakh Rasheed, Gandapur, Vovda,, Zartaj Gul, Ali Muhammad, Mahar etc.
محسن داوڑ کا کہنا تھا کہ ’کہیں بھی اگر کوئی دھماکہ ہو جاتا ہے تو اس علاقے میں آپریشن شروع کر دیا جاتا ہے، لوگوں کو گرفتار کر کے ان پر تشدد کیا جاتا ہے اور لوگوں کی بے عزتی کی جاتی ہے۔ ‘
A large number of Hindu community members, civil society activists and MPs of opposition parties gather to protest outside Karachi Press Club for
#stopForcedConversions
Allama Farooqul Hasan, who is leading TLP protests in Lahore, has presented four demands to the govt. (1) expel French ambassador (2) unban TLP (3) release group chief Saad Rizvi and other leaders and (4) depose Shaikh Rasheed from ministry and include him in an inquiry.
A large number of ANP workers attended the funeral of the slain MQM-P worker today. A positive gesture and a big 'No' for those who try to stoke ethnic hatred recently.
#Karachi
After educators, the champions of Roti, Kapra and Makaan ordered police to use force against unarmed small sugarcane farmers who 'dared' to head towards Bilawal House,
#Karachi
ترجمہ ۔ پوری صدی تباہی کی جنگ لڑی۔ ایک کہہ رہاہے میں جیتا دوسرا کہہ رہاہے وہ۔ کوئی کہہ رہا ہے انگریز جیت گیا، کوئی کہ ملا جیت گیا۔قریب ہی ایک پاگل خودکلامی کررہاہے جنگ کوئی جیت نہیں سکتا جنگ میں فائدہ نہیں نقصان ہے۔ اگریقین نہ ائیں تو بیوائوں یتیموں تباہ مکانوں برباد دلوں کو گنو
A sorry sight: crocodiles 🐊 soak up the sun at the Karachi Zoo after paan and gutka-using visitors spat on them, leaving their bodies with blood-red spots. Pic via
@thenews_intl
Taking inspiration from TLP, ASWJ chief Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqi also demanded to remove the ban from the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan otherwise its member will organize protest.
JUI-F, PkMAP and some leaders within the PMLN have opposed to invite Mohsin Dawar at PDM’s Gujranwala rally, sources said. However, PPP has invited him for PDM’s rally in Karachi on Sunday.
Bizarre and unfortunate that as Pakistan Democratic Movement prepares to present a united front in Gujranwala for its first major jalsa, Mohsin Dawar has been disinvited from attending because some parties have reservations about him.
Historic opportunity missed.
After Punjab, demolishing the minarets of Ahmadi places of worship started in Karachi. Today, a group of people demolished the minarets of an Ahmadi place of worship in Saddar. Two weeks ago, another Ahmadi worship place's minarets were also demolished in Martin Quarters.
Sad moments at a graveyard where 7 women and 6 children were killed in a bomb attack at a truck in
#Karachi
will be buried today in a mass grave. Targeting innocent women, children is the worst form of terrorism.
PTI ex-MPA Ubaidullah Mayar, who was expelled from party to selling his vote in Senate polls, had joined PPP in April after meeting Zardari. Today he has joined ANP.
چھ بجے شام کو مارکیٹیں بند کرنے کے چکر میں سارا شہر عید کئ خریدی کے لئے نکل آیا ا۔ پورا کراچی شہر جام۔ مارکیٹوں میں پیر رکھنے کی جگہ تک نہیں ۔ فل کرونا ماحول
In Pakistan, descendants of lower-caste Hindus who converted to Christianity centuries ago still find themselves marginalized, relegated to dirty jobs and grim fates - I and
@Abihabib
report
Meanwhile, PPP's Taj Haider wrote a letter to ECP to take notice of the "mysterious behavior" of MPAs of PTI and MQM-P of staying at Karachi's two hotels despite having accommodation in the city and "to investigate who is bearing the lodging expenses."
#SenateElection2021
سپاہ صحابہ، لشکر طیبہ، تحریک جعفر یہ کی طرح تحریک لبیک پر بھی پاپندی عائد کی جارہی ہے۔ البتہ نئے ناموں کے ساتھ جلسے جلوس اور انتخابات میں حصہ لینے پر کوئی پاپندی نہیں ہوگی۔
پی پی پی کی سندھ حکومت جماعت اسلامی کے سندھ اسمبلی کے باہر جاری دھرنے کا جواب نجی ٹی وی چینلوں پرکروڑوں روپے کے اشتہارات سے دے رہی ہے۔ بہروز سبزواری کا بھی خرچہ نکل ایا 😀
Honoured to receive this award in recognition of my reporting on the rights, safety, and dignity of manual sewer cleaners and other sanitation workers in Pakistan. (1/n)
After Faisal Vawda’s resignation,
#PMLN
is likely to field Miftah Ismail from
#NA249
#Karachi
. In 2018, Vawda won it from Shahbaz Sharif with a narrow margin. This time, PMLN is confident to win the seat with the support of PDM's component parties, including PPP, JUI-F, ANP.(1/a)
مسئلہ کراچی کے گجر نالے کے کنارے آباد مزدوروں کے مسمار کیے گئے ان ہزاروں کچے مکانات کا نہیں تھا، حکومتی اداروں کی کارکردگی کا تھا۔ ایک بڑی آبادی کی جبری بے داخلی کے بعد بھی گجرنالے کی اج کی صورت حال ۔ تصویر، دی نیوز)