Ammar Rashid
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Public policy researcher, writer, organizer. Politics, economics & development in Pakistan.
Islamabad
Joined September 2010
This. The Left needs to make a clear & definitive historical break from the politics of establishment liberalism everywhere. The liberal fixation on the amorphous threat of 'populism' has massively expanded the national security state & has been ruinous for democracy &.
Instead of presenting viable alternatives to the crisis, liberals are obsessed with stopping the potential rise of right-wing movements. This negative attitude has pushed them to make alliance with the Deep State. Degeneration of Pakistani liberalism is part of this global trend.
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Huge crowds at the Islamabad #ClimateMarch. There is suddenly a climate movement in Pakistan. #ClimateActionNow
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"They're using live ammunition, assault rifles, AK-47's, as you can hear in the background, they're using automatic fire.". Al-Jazeera's Kamal Hyder confirms Pakistani forces fired assault rifles & automatic weapons on protestors, seemingly for hours on Tuesday. Horrifying.
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Your opponents are uploading original Form 45's in PDF form & distributing the real polling station-wise results to millions online. You guys are throwing around incoherent personal allegations & not offering a shred of counter-evidence in return. This isn't going to work.
میڈیا میں موجود باقیات عمرانی کا اگر بس چلتا تو یہ ساری کی ساری سیٹیں عمران نیازی کی جھولی میں ڈال چکے ہوتے مگر اب یہ مخصوص ٹولہ صرف ٹی وی چینلز پہ بیٹھ کر انتخابات کو متنازعہ بنانے اور اپنی ریٹنگ کی خاطر بے بنیاد نتائج اور ان پر تبصروں کا سلسلہ جاری رکھے ہوئے ہیں۔.
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Shaza before anything else, can you please explain why, as IT Minister, you're using an app your govt banned for the rest of us while using a VPN that your govt also banned for the rest of us? Do you not feel even an iota of shame for the digital apartheid imposed in Pakistan in.
‘Awaam rejects Fitna Call ✊.
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McDonald's Corporation loses $7 billion of its value within hours after its Chief Financial Officer announced the continued impact of boycotts in the Middle East on sales during the current year. McDonald's stock plunges by over 3%, heading towards its largest daily loss in 5
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Blasphemy charges under Section 295 of PPC filed against an actress for doing a twirl inside a mosque. To date, no blasphemy charges have ever been filed for the hundreds of children sexually abused inside mosques. Tells you all you need to know about Pakistani morality.
Video at Wazir Khan Mosque: FIR lodged against Saba Qamar, Bilal Saeed
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By all accounts, Suraya Bibi can lay more claim to representing ordinary women's empowerment than most MPAs. 1st Chitrali woman elected on a general seat, non-dynastic, social worker, won in a remote rural region against JUIF. Yet those hailing MNS's elevation silent in her case.
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Huge crowd of angry Lady Health Workers from around the country gathered at D Chowk calling on @ImranKhanPTI to come and listen to their demands. #14OctDharna
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Grim warning from doctors at PIMS Isb about the looming #covid19 disaster. "Impose a curfew if you must. We simply do not have resources to deal with this. There are a total of 10 beds & 2 ventilators in the isolation ward. Nothing else has been provided." Please share widely.
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The SCO summit does not take place for another 10 days. Meanwhile, your unelected govt is about to bulldoze a constitutional amendment through brute force to permanently subjugate the judiciary to executive whim. Spare us the manufactured pearl clutching about 'timing' & 'image'.
The timing of PTI protest is unfortunate and condemnable. This appears to be a deliberate attempt by a political party to undermine Pakistan's international standing, especially ahead of the highly SCO Heads of Government Summit, an event of global significance in Pakistan after.
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He is not ridiculing a basic Islamic concept, he is ridiculing your party's cynical use of a Quranic verse to paint your political opponents as the embodiment of Vice. And your response to this is identical to rightwing parties that paint all criticism of them as attacks on Islam.
Shame on @MiftahIsmail - Appeasing the US by trying to ridicule basic Islamic concept of Amar Bil Maroof, as he mumbles & stumbles showing his ignorance. Is nothing sacred for this coterie of crooks? #MarchAgainstImportedGovt
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QFI has etched his name in history as the chief judicial enabler of the most brazen & violent power grab by the military in decades. Doesn't matter what party you support, this decision to strip voters of a choice will rip Pakistani democracy apart, probably irreparably.
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So glad PMs can't be removed because of 'sadiq' & 'amin' clauses now. Instead, entire political parties can be dismantled a few weeks before the country votes, on the basis of newly-discovered standards for the sanctity of intra-party elections that no other party is meeting.
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Finally reviewed the scanned Form 45's for NA47. @advshoaib66 won around 357 out of 387 polling stations, w/ mostly huge margins. PMLN's Tariq Fazl won about 8% of stations (many closely) & was declared the winner w/ a 15000 lead. Islamabad just handed over to PMLN on a platter.
🚨🚨#BREAKING: @ECP_Pakistan issues notification of 3 constituencies of #Islamabad, NA-46, NA-47, NA-48 declared #PMLN’s Anjum Aqeel, @DrTariqFazal and independent Raja Khurram Shahzad Nawaz winners respectively.
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President @ArifAlvi should absolutely not resign, have people lost their minds? You want the last remaining person in the state's ruling apparatus who isn't 100% beholden to the military regime to hand over his powers also? He should take all actions to foil the coup while he can.
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Imran Khan's arrest is evidence that the military top brass remains the only untouchable institution in Pakistan. Anyone who dares to hold them answerable for abductions, coups, engineering, assassination attempts or any other crime will be taught a lesson. Even if you're an exPM.
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Few better illustrations of the colonized status of Gilgit Baltistan then the fact that its own elected Speaker is no longer allowed to enter the GB assembly because his party has fallen out of favour with Pakistan's establishment. All pretense of 'autonomy' & 'self-rule' over.
سپیکر گلگت بلتستان اسمبلی نذیر احمد کو اسمبلی داخل ہونے سے روک دیا گیا گھر کے مالک کو گھر نہیں جانے دیا ویڈیو رپورٹ. #speaker #gilgitbaltistan #assembly
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In Aug, Pakistan's religious right campaigned for weeks for Saba Qamar to be arrested for blasphemy for a twirl inside a mosque. Today news broke of a cleric raping 4 girls inside a mosque. You will be hard pressed to find 1 tweet from them. Truly deep-rooted moral corruption.
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A lot can still change, but as a political worker, I'm deeply relieved at the impressive electoral fightback by PTI & its voters, who have somehow managed to impose some limits on the deep state's ability to engineer electoral outcomes of its choice. The country needed this.
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Never witnessed a more damning indictment of Political Islam. Tens of thousands of Islamists across sects have united & savagely waged destruction across the country to demand the murder of a poor Christian woman for blasphemy without evidence. This is their political project.
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Bodies piled up in a hospital in Islamabad after Pakistani security & military forces used assault rifles & automatic weapons against protestors over several hours. There seems to have been outright slaughter. This is looking really bad.
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A lot of depths have been plumbed in the last 18 months, but by God, this truly is a new low. Gutter case & gutter judgment. Still won't be unprecedented enough for folks whose politics revolves around hating one man though.
Breaking News: Imran, Bushra sentenced to seven years imprisonment in 'unlawful' marriage case.Court announces reserved verdict; imposes fine of Rs0.5 million each on former premier and wife. For more: #etribune #news #Latest
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Finally out of prison. Overwhelmed by your messages of love & solidarity. It is a blessing to be back with my loved ones, but will not rest until authorities #ReleaseManzoorPashteen, #ReleaseAlamgirWazir & others thrown into jail & called traitors for demanding justice. Onward.
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So was Jibran a 'rioter' or 'terrorist' or 'cult member' as well? Or can we now dispense with these weak excuses for outright fascist thuggery that has dispensed with all pretense of democracy? You all know who you are. #ReleaseJibranNasir.
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My mother finally breathed her last today. Grateful to have had her love and guidance in my life, and to have gotten to spend her last months by her side. If you can, please say a prayer for her soul.
My mother is currently in intensive care for cancer-related complications. Request everyone who can to say a prayer for her health.
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The real reason the govt & establishment have to ask themselves these questions is because journalists like yourself have refused to ask them any questions whatsoever for over 2 and a half years now.
The govt and the Establishment have to ask themselves the following questions? .Do we have a political solution to the Imran problem? Do we have a legal solution to the Imran problem? Is the Administrative solution to the Imran problem really working? Is blocking, naming,.
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First constituency I've seen all Form 45's of. In 60 out of 62 stations, @jhagra was a distant first, usually beating 2nd place by 100s. The 'winner' Jalal Khan was often in single digits. This isnt tinkering at the margins, it's converting landslide victories into defeats.
🚨 Unbelievable Election Fraud in Peshawar PK79 🚨. PTI's @Jhagra 25,102 votes vs. PMLN's 1,619 - yet they declared PMLN the winner? . Check out the Form 45s and our results compilation spreadsheet. See the undeniable evidence for yourself. Stay tuned as we reveal more with.
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Can't find a single Form 45 uploaded by ECP yet. What does it say about ECP's credibility & competence that 3 days after elections, the only source of consolidated polling station-level data is from the party ECP banned from contesting & hosted on a website blocked in Pakistan?.
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Malala is not some canvas for you to project all your strange ideologically-charged fantasies on, folks. This is all getting a bit weird now. Let her & her partner live out their choices in peace & stop acting like the nosy extended khandaan she never asked for.
Quite shocked to learn Malala married a Pakistani guy. She is only 24. I thought she went to Oxford university for study, she would fall in love with a handsome progressive English man at Oxford and then think of marrying not before the age of 30. But. .
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This 'reconciliatory' tone may have been noteworthy if PMLN was just returning from a hard stint out of power. Fact is, you just presided over an attempt to brutally wipe out your opposition, failed & still helped usher in a new quasi-dictatorship. Spare us the faux-magnanimity.
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Are we having daily podcast episodes with the alleged attacker now? Who is in custody of this man and who is releasing these friendly 'get-to-know-him-better' videos? Never seen any of these for terror-accused who've been arrested in the past.
#EXCLUSIVE: Gunman in another confessional statement admits of listening lectures of Dr Israr Ahmed and has large cache of videos of #TLP Chief #SaadRizvi sermons in his cellphone.
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The Minar e Pakistan mass groping video is especially bone-chilling because you know it's such an ever-present possibility in our depressingly male-dominated streets. Widespread gendered apartheid has created a brutal masculinity that loses control at the mere sight of women.
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I can understand the PDM govt's vengefulness & desire to put IK away before elections but its bizarre watching supposed progressives cheer on Punjab police & Rangers as supposed harbingers of rule of law. No, this isn't about 'Toshakhana' or 'upholding the constitution', sorry.
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Pakistanis literally dying at sea in the hundreds to escape impoverishment & the regime is sending obscenely rich members of the ruling elite on free Hajj trips at taxpayer expense. Shameless doesn't begin to describe it. May they taste the misery they've inflicted on millions.
کل ایک فلائٹ ارینج کی ہے، پارلیمنٹیرینز حج کے لیے جائیں اور ملک کے لیے دعا کریں، اسحاق ڈار.یہ پڑھیں : #Expressnews #IshaqDar #PMLN
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Deeply disturbed by news of @MJibranNasir's abduction. He must be released at once. Some of us, including Jibran, have been trying to warn for months that this wave of repression would not stop at PTI. Thank you to the complicit democrats for this new round of state terror.
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Deeply worried about IKs ascent back to power ushering in a dark age that could interrupt the current golden age of prosperity, freedom, stability, connectivity & rights we're all enjoying. Maybe we need several more years of abductions & torture to prevent that fascist future.
Op-ed:."[Imran] will be declared innocent of crimes that he did not commit but also of those that he did. When he claws his way back to the top, a dark age will descend on Pakistan. Several signs point to this dismal outcome.".
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Mr Alvi betters his own record of speaking absurdities. One has to be totally divorced from common-sense to think that anyone, I mean anyone, would fall for tosh and trash like this👇. But Mr Alvi writes it in black and white! Amazing self-portrait of a fake.
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Not only did @sherryrehman fail to speak or vote against the draconian pro-military-rule amendments in the Senate, she is now attacking the President for daring to do so. Why are you so hell-bent on ensuring Pakistanis are at left the mercy of the deep state, Ms. Rehman?.
صدر کی وضاحت ان کے صدراتی منصب سنبھالنے کی اہلیت پر سوالیہ نشان ہے، شیری رحمان
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So much determination to see draconian amendments to Army Act & Official Secrets Act become law. 21 A*s for effort (at cherry blossom application).
Dr. Arif Alvi, realized after 27 hours that the two bills which the President of Pakistan approved - were actually returned and not signed. A. He is lying - playing to the gallery after the backlash. B. He failed to control even his own office, so what is he the President of?.
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This is just completely false. This regime's authoritarianism & lawlessness is objectively worse than the last one on every single metric. The previous govt didn't:. - Permanently legalize limitless terms for COAS .- Pass constitutional amendments through brute force to make.
Let's admit it. There's no difference between this & previous govt in terms of electoral mandate, same page mantra & driving from behind by invisible & unaccountable. Unless this model of governance is challenged & changed to genuine democratic there's little hope of salvation.
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How President Arif Alvi has violated the Constitution??. As per Article 75 of the Constitution, when a Bill is sent for assent, the President has two options: either give assent, or refer the matter to the parliament with specific observations. Article 75 does not provide for any.
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What brazen contempt for the Pakistani public at the very moment its mandate, delivered in popular defiance of the powers that be, is being stolen in plain view. This faux neutrality at crucial moments is complicity frankly.
There is a genocide taking place in the world we live in and I find it very hard to express interest in which party made what deal so whose feckless ‘leader’ can take the top job. This is a miserable masquerade and the people deserve much better than all these men combined. I’ve.
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Deeply sinister propaganda this. The use of children as props to justify widespread military repression & political engineering is particularly disturbing. These folks are capable of just about anything.
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ECP has actually uploaded Form 45s with literal *whiteout markers* used to reduce candidates vote tallies (on green sheets 😂).
The stupidity is actually unbelievable, the way NA238 forms are tempered is actually hilarious. Using whiteout to change numbers & only altering the votes for PTI & MQM candidates. A 10 year old can do a better job, honestly shame on any court, judge or institution that STILL
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'In ke siyah dalay kuch yun karen mutasir.In mein karey safar jo woh seedhi rah pa le.'. The military is now releasing songs openly glorifying enforced disappearances & torture against Pakistani civilians. I have never seen anything like this in my life. Bone chilling.
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Really important to stop people chanting for Imran Khan during PSL, otherwise domestic & international audiences will find out he's massively popular, which is currently a secret nobody is aware of.
Punjab police arresting a man ‘cause he was chanting Imran Khan’s slogans in the stadium. what a country.
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Looks like the first documented case of a winner being announced by a Returning Officer that's completely contrary to the actual result in ECP's official Form-45 received by the candidates. Likely much more of this underway. #NA55.
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Someone please call the Council of Islamic Ideology & Interior Ministry, the Prime Minister is using a haram VPN to access a banned social media website that undermines national security.
I wish to felicitate President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on resounding victory of his party in the parliamentary elections. This is a testament to the confidence and trust that the people of Sri Lanka have reposed in his vision and leadership. Pakistan remains committed to further.
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In all the NA55 Form 45 results uploaded, PMLN's Ibrar Ahmed is a *distant* second to PTI 'Independent' Raja Basharat in about 95% of stations. ECP has announced Ibrar Ahmed as the winner by 16000 votes. This isn't rocket science requiring prolonged judicial review to check.
راجہ بشارت NA 55 راولپنڈی ۴ سے صبح 4 بجے تک 300پولنگ اسٹیشن کے نتائج کے مطابق 40ہزار ووٹ کی برتری سے جیت رہے تھے،(صرف 11پولنگ اسٹیشن کا نتیجہ باقی تھا)۔. @RajaBasharatLAW . ان کی جیت کا ثبوت تمام پولنگ سٹیشن کے فارم ۴۵ اس لنک پر موجود ہیں ۔. NA-55.
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So there's finally incontrovertible evidence of police/rangers having killed their own people. Yet regime mouthpieces continue to repeat the regime's lies of 'inteshaaris murdering Rangers'. Just utterly vile people who need to be held to account for their lies. Enough.
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Strangling the whole country's internet to disrupt an online event of a party it doesn't want in power is a pretty apt reflection of how the military has run Pakistan. People's needs irrelevant to its own power calculus. 'Free & fair elections' under this regime is a bad joke.
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Man presided over the most comprehensive dismantling of connectivity & digital rights in Pakistani history, is leaving after turning the lights off & seems to believe he deserves a medal for it.
“Don’t do it.” Everyone I asked in August had the same advice. Flippant, unanimous, unequivocal . Caretaker governments are temporary, with limited administrative powers and no legislative authority. They have no popular support base and no political capital. The country is
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The Guardian reports on the apparent coverup of casualties at government hospitals in Islamabad. Ties in with Matiullah's video reporting at PIMS. Pretty obvious what's going on.
“All records of dead and injured have been confiscated by authorities. We are not allowed to talk. Senior government officials are visiting the hospital to hide the records,” he said. Read this story of @guardian to find out what's been happening at PIMS.
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'Here's a list of all the instances the military brutally repressed political leaders & parties in Pak history. But *this* time it's okay because how dare this madman & his cult attack our beloved Pak Army's buildings!' - most of the PDM supporters & liberals on my TL these days.
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Pakistan is under a military dictatorship that is ripping up its constitution, judiciary & institutions at will. PMLN, PPP & their sarkari liberals can continue to dance for their Masters & whine about 'youthias' all they want, they are collaborators & traitors to the people.
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Pakistan's government has deployed the military with shoot-at-sight orders against tens of thousands of protestors marching against election rigging & the dismantling of the judiciary. The regime has shut down all networks & social media, turned off the lights and is now priming.
🚨Pakistan Army has been called under Article 245, direct fire orders issued.
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TLP has found another blasphemy case to latch on to with #SabaQamar's Wazir Khan twirl. Khadim Rizvi has smelt blood & an easy victim in an outspoken actress and he's going to milk this. This is going to get ugly.
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Ongoing attempts to call the result of the entire election (not just contested seats) into question & push for reelection look like a trap. They'll be better prepared next time.
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Pro regime journos & PDM supporters falling over themselves to call for treason charges against IK for the leak of a cipher they consider 'fake' & 'unverified' but they can't even discuss it on Pakistani TV because of orders from their khaki overlords. Pathetic behavior.
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An entire elaborate performance, with the PM & COAS present, was carried out at the funerals of these Rangers despite the state knowing from the start that the protestors had nothing whatsoever to do with their deaths. It was clearly done to establish ground for the crackdown to.
@AmmarRashidT @MDUmairKh This is the car Hashim ( grand son of ex-PMLN leader) was driving. They caught him on the spot, and the car is at Kohsar Police station.
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"Why aren't more journalists speaking up?"."Why isn't the lawyers' leadership calling for protests?"
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Liberals & democrats celebrating or downplaying the military destroying yet another leader/party that dared confront it while thinking 'we'll fare better at challenging military hegemony!' are truthfully deluded. This victory will deter challenges to military rule for a long time.
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Blasphemy allegations, vile misogyny, harassment of children, attacks on journalists. It didn't take 3 days after its feel-good election campaigning for PMLN social media to switch to bottom of the barrel filth. Perfectly reflects its leaderships actions on the national stage.
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So much discourse on the TL about how Pakistan can emulate India's successful space program. Personally think we should first focus on having a functional system of governance that isn't dependent on the arbitrary whims of one ambitious general after another.
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Removing the poster of fascist outfit TLP is now considered a blasphemous act that can get you burnt to death by a mob in broad daylight in Pakistan. Cannot get over this fact. This goes far beyond Mumtaz Qadri's act of murder. This is the Islamic Republic in 2021.
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The most comprehensive institutional transfer of power to the military in generations. Army's role codified in economy, legal impunity granted to all its commercial & pol activities, mly courts strengthened, COAS granted unlimited power. Pakistan's democratic experiment is over.
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Imran Khan, Asad Umar & Insafians keep making a fundamental mistake about the entire purpose of lockdowns and social distancing, which is clearly sabotaging Pakistan's entire covid-19 response. This urgently needs to be rectified. A thread.
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I suspect many of the PTI party workers surrounding/storming military compounds will face terrible consequences. But there's something to be said for how people are, for once, imposing real costs on the military leadership for overstepping their constitutional authority.
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The PM says we're too poor to do a lockdown. The truth is, we are too poor to *not* lockdown. Our health system will collapse in days if we don't. If covid gets into our katchi abadis, millions could die. The state will have to support workers. #lockdownpakistan #basicincomeNOW
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I'm sorry but opaque & murky internal military proceedings, imperious press conferences & denial of human rights violation are not 'proof' of any conspiracy being claimed by the brass. Sad to see some liberals falling over themselves again to accept the generals' word as gospel.
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Could President Alvi have rejected the military coup bills more forcefully? Perhaps. Did he still display *far* more spine than the cowardly pro-regime MNAs & Senators who voted for them & bartered away our rights without so much as a squeak of protest? Without a shred of doubt.
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The only Pakistani-origin world champion boxer in generations invested in a boxing gym in Pakistan to support local talent, for which the state has rewarded him by turning it into a dorm for paramilitary troops. They've turned this country into a graveyard for good intentions.
The @amirkingkhan Boxing gym and academy in islamabad is under illegal occupation of FC since last one year . This gym was built for underpriviledged and poor boxers and @amirkingkhan paid thousands of dollars from his pocket to establish this academy.
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What are Gandapur's qualifications for managing public finances, education, health, industrial dev, social dev, LGs, or any other of the governance domains needed for running a province of 40m? Or is 'police aur bureaucracy ko danda dena' the only criteria for CMship in PTI abhi?.
🚨🚨#BREAKING: Former PM and #PTI founder @ImranKhanPTI formally nominates @AliAminKhanPTI for CM #KP position.
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Why is PTI leadership holding press conferences about YouTubers while the ECP is paving the way for a 2/3rd majority for the junta? Incredibly dubious behaviour & completely boneheaded priorities.
پی ٹی آئی قیادت کی پریس کانفرنس۔حیدر مہدی اورعادل راجہ سےلاتعلقی کا اعلان کردیا
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Day 4 of Hunza sit-in to demand freedom for Baba Jan & other political prisoners in GB. The numbers are growing everyday, yet the mainstream media blackout continues. Pakistanis, please listen to what the people of Hunza are saying. #FreeBabaJan #FreeAllPoliticalPrisonersOfGB
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It's not an abduction because 'he's not a real journalist'. It's not a crackdown because 'it's not a real party'. This is Orwellian doublespeak & many govt supporters are engaging in it quite recklessly. Please stop parroting this cover for ongoing rights abuses by the military.
In Pakistan, a prominent pro-Imran Khan commentator has "disappeared." Imran Riaz Khan was detained by the police last week, but they say they don't have him in custody any more 🤨. I spoke to Information Minister @Marriyum_A about his case & press freedom under the current govt:
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So the main method for changing results was making up Form 47 (constituency-level) numbers that dont reflect vote counts of signed Form 45's (polling station level totals) in multiple constituencies (explains all the 0's). Seems like a fairly straightforward claim to test.
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Few uglier manifestations of Muslim majoritarianism in Pakistan than forced conversions of Hindu girls by what are essentially predator gangs in Islamic garb. Religious parties then have the gall to deny this happens & attack those who speak out. Deep-seated moral corruption.
Sohana Sharma Kumari, weeping and kissing her father’s hand. She firmly said that “she wants to go with her parents.” The court said the girl was pressurized and sent to a safe house. 💔 — parents and daughters are made to suffer
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This is why the regime, PDM & its media plants wanted the President to resign in a hurry. Glad he didn't and is making the coup more complicated. Waiting for the 'pro-democracy' crowd to start their pearl clutching over this now.
صدر مملکت ڈاکٹر عارف علوی کا چیف الیکشن کمشنر، سکندر سلطان راجہ، کو خط . صدر مملکت نے جنرل الیکشن کی تاریخ کا فیصلہ کرنے کیلئے چیف الیکشن کمشنر کو آج یا کل مُلاقات کی دعوت دے دی . صدر مملکت نے 09.08.2023 کو وزیر اعظم کے مشورے پر قومی اسمبلی کو تحلیل کیا، صدر کے خط کا متن
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Never witnessed such intense & widespread disaffection across the breadth of Pakistan in my life. Federation creaking at the seams. This is what happens when disconnected generals think they can use 19th century British Raj methods to run a country of 200m in the 21st century.
ڈرون فوٹیج: #چمن_پرلت کا مسئلہ در اصل پورے پشتونخوا وطن کے لاکھوں لوگوں کے روزگاری کا مسئلہ ہے۔ ہمیں نہ تو روزگار کے مواقع میسر ہیں اور نہ ہی کوئی انڈسٹری ہے لوگوں کا روزگار چمن سے وابسطہ ہے۔ چمن کراسنگ پوائنٹ پر پاسپورٹ کی شرط ہمارا معاشی قتل ہے اسے فوری پرانے طرز پر کھولا جائے
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No one deserves to be abducted. Either we demand due process & equality before law for everyone or we get it for no one. #ReleaseJibranNasir #EndEnforcedDisappearances.
Horrendous. @MJibranNasir has always championed the cause of civil liberties. He’s the last man to deserve it. Condemnable. #ReleaseJibranNasir.
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My mother is currently in intensive care for cancer-related complications. Request everyone who can to say a prayer for her health.
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Good to see many PTI supporters raising questions about what looks like nepotism in the KP cabinet. Don't let insiders tell you this is a 'distraction'. The struggle against rigging & dictatorship should continue, but it wont mean much if parties don't also reform internally.
KP cabinet:. • Asad Qaiser's brother as a minister. • Shahram Tarkai's brother as a minister. • Umar Ayub's cousin as a minister. • Sher Afzal Marwat’s brother as a minister. i don’t even know what to say….
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I'm sure the Lahore corps commander needed to reside in the former mansion of the country's Founder for reasons of national security.
Lahore Corps Commander's official residence is a property of national significance and heritage. It was a property originally bought by Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1943.
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What an utterly unnecessary communalization of an otherwise healthy & friendly sporting encounter. Matches between sports teams are not holy wars & squads are not selected based on faith. Absolutely embarrassing that this isn't some random rabble rouser but our Interior Minister.
"Pakistan's victory against India is victory of Islam (against Hindus of course). All Muslims of world including Indian Muslims are celebrating.". - Pakistan's interior minister Sheikh Rasheed
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Hey @ImranKhanPTI do we need any research into why we've degenerated into a society where mobs burn foreigners to death for removing a rightwing fascist party's sticker? Or is this also a result of 'Western' culture destroying our family system?.
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Seems pretty obvious now that the battle against IK/PTI has brought out some of the worst racist & authoritarian instincts in our body politic. The PDM leadership is openly fanning these dangerous flames but that seems to no longer matter to a lot of supposed liberal democrats.
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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We are in a full blown military dictatorship with all civil & human rights protections gone. Anyone who speaks out against the thugs in charge, irrespective of party or affiliation, is a target. The sooner we can all realize this instead of fighting among each other, the better.
🚨🚨#BREAKING: @ICT_Police and plainclothes men took away lawyer @ImaanZHazir. Without any warrant they forcefully entered in her home, broke their doors, took away her cellphone, laptop and searched her room. Even her mother and guards phones and CCTV setup taken away!
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Punjab govt splurging $'s on Times Square PR for MNS about bringing an 'IT revolution'. Meanwhile, millions trying to meet deadlines to scrape a living back home can barely download a PDF because the regime's hobbled the internet to silence criticism. Just incredible audacity.
Nawaz Sharif IT City on Times Square screens. Punjab making unprecedented strides Alhamdolillah! 🇵🇰
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ECP has actually decided to gift PTI's reserved seats to other parties as they had demanded. Dozens of additional seats being granted to parties based on seats they *lost*, in total violation of the public's vote. A mockery of democracy & blatant subversion of the public mandate.
Insane that PMLN, PPP & MQM are arguing before ECP that PTI/SIC's reserved seats should be allocated to them instead. Astounded at sheer scale of the audacity to - after already benefitting from systematic rigging - demand more seats based on millions of votes cast *against* you.
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PTI leaders attacking Ali Wazir & Mohsin Dawar for being anti-army while PTI's own rallies feature open incitement against the military & COAS takes a truly special kind of hypocrisy. A reminder that PTI's newfound 'anti-establishment' facade is skin-deep & utterly facile.
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The SC should straightforwardly strike these laws down based on the Presidents testimony that he never signed them and Alvi's staff should be thrown in jail for undermining the constitutional authority of the Presidency. With our luck, it'll be Alvi thrown in jail instead through.
As God is my witness, I did not sign Official Secrets Amendment Bill 2023 & Pakistan Army Amendment Bill 2023 as I disagreed with these laws. I asked my staff to return the bills unsigned within stipulated time to make them ineffective. I confirmed from them many times that.
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Can't get over this thread. 'The previous hybrid regime was very undemocratic so this fully military regime is going to wipe out any one who stands in its way so it can fix things'. Stick to bad acting in low budget state propaganda flicks, Asher, this isn't your forté.
overnight, the present military regime is undoing the deep roots before normalcy can return to Pakistan. Imaan Mazari although well meaning is naive like so many other Pakistanis who expect overnight changes. We need to be Patient and stay out of the way of the present +.
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77 years as a garrison state, decades of wasted growth potential, multiple generations deprived of education & health to finance national security obsessions, yet somehow still incapable of providing basic security on its own soil to its largest economic & strategic benefactor.
Beijing is pushing Pakistan to allow its own security staff to provide protection to thousands of Chinese citizens working in Pakistan during talks, after a car bombing near Karachi’s airport that was seen as a major security breach, sources said.
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At this point, I've seen available data for enough constituencies for it to be jarringly obvious to me personally that this govt's NA 'majority' is based on fiction. You can tell even they know. One can't do much with that info sadly but hard to just pretend it's not true.
Pakistan’s Political Crisis comes to an End — PPP and PMLN agree to form a government announces @BBhuttoZardari in a joint presser alongwith @CMShehbaz.
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Nothing has brought Pakistan to its knees more than the military leaderships belief that it has the right to hold political forces & elected representatives to account. 77 years & they still continue to tear up the country & constitution in the name of this brazenly illegal idea.
MashAllah!.“Should political parties be allowed to break Pakistan? Should people keep waiting for the end of the five-year term?” he asked in response to a question about the inability of political governments in the country to complete their 5-year terms.
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If there's one thing Pakistan's news media can do today, it is to explain the SC's reasoning behind #Aasiabibi's acquittal & describe in detail the flimsiness of the case against her. Let's broadcast the facts instead of censoring & allowing the TLP to dictate the narrative.
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A note of gratitude and reflection on our time in Adiala Jail. A thread.
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At least the previous one was still a 'hybrid' regime.
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