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Founder and Director: Engage/ShehriPakistan/Hashiya/Puffball Studio Director: Shehr e Tabassum and Swipe

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3 months
Today we demand that we separate the lies from the truth and shed light on the very words in 295-C that have created terror and horror in the name of a man who taught us mercy and compassion #talkabout295C
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As a Bengali-Pakistani this hits really hard. Specially my folks in Karachi face a lot of issues with documentation
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@ArafatMazhar
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young human rights activists disrupt the german ambassadors speech during the Asma Jahangir Conference for their role in the genocide in Gaza
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Students talking about the complicity of Germany in the genocide of Palestine and their ambassador “having the audacity” to lecture Pakistan on civic rights
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@ArafatMazhar
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1 year
Just a torched building. Get over it. Women harassed, People dead and illegally abducted over brick and mortar. That is the only black part of May 9th
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2 years
Someone needs to have a word with Maria B
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5 years
THREAD: In light of the heartbreaking verdict in Junaid Hafeez's case, it's important to remember that Pakistan's blasphemy law, specifically 295-C, was passed on the basis of a lie: important sources of Islamic jurisprudence were deliberately MISQUOTED to pass this law-
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How it started How its going (1947-1987) (1987-2021) 2 blasphemy 70+ killings blasphemy killings how can one justify a law that increases extralegal killings by 3600%?
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Pakistan: 'tauheen e risalat ki aik hi saza sur tun se juda' Meanwhile: Algeria - 3-5 years/fine: No death penalty Bahrain - (applies to any religion) - 1 year or fine Egypt - (applies to any religion) - 6 months or fine Iraq - (applies to any religion) - 3 years or fine
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@ArafatMazhar
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3 years
whoever doctored 'aurat march' subtitles/audio to sound blasphemous should be registered under 295. this is not a false FIR case.
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@ArafatMazhar
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3 years
My research on Pakistan’s blasphemy laws has been ongoing for the past 10 years and now, one of my earliest papers - “Plurality, Dissent and Hegemony: The Story Behind Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law”, co-written by friend and peer, Zain Moulvi - has been published by Bloomsbury
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@ArafatMazhar
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Celebrating Greta Thunberg today in the way that kid realised that speaking against a genocide on all her platforms was crucial to her stand on climate. Malala chose the path of - “ I can’t die on certain hills such as genocide as it will affect my work on education”- demanding
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@ArafatMazhar
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7 months
How state treats you in isb when you re a violent hate group acting like thugs vs when you March for your basic civil rights
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@MahrangBaloch_
Mahrang Baloch
7 months
#MarchAgainstBalochGenocide is under attack by the Islamabad police. Many of our youth have been arrested, & many have been injured by tear gas shelling and violence. Right now, we are being treated worse than animals. Will the world raise its voice for us against this barbarism?
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Yeh haramzadey hutey kaun hein jou “maafi” dein gein is khatoon ko. We have given so much space to these animals past decade and this is the result. Take a stand, join me:
@iffiViews
iffi
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💔💔💔💔💔💔
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@ArafatMazhar
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Jibran Nasir’s family has confirmed he is safely home
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@ArafatMazhar
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9 months
For Pakistani Peterson fans - of which there are many Meanwhile almost the feminist community around the world is explicitly pro Palestine
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Give 'em hell @netanyahu Enough is enough
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@ArafatMazhar
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4 years
so...i directed a film!
@ShehreTabassum
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2071. There have been no reported instances of terrorism or violent crime in over 3 decades in Pakistan. The cost - the systematic subjugation of human emotion. Shehr e Tabassum, a hand painted animated short film OUT NOW ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL
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@ArafatMazhar
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set in present day multan we follow a city addicted to 'iFatwa' - an app that crowdsources fatwas on who is a ghaddar and who is a gustakh. swipe right for wajib-ul-qatl and left for maafi. its a hand drawn short urdu anime that took us a year to make.
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Swipe right for wajib-ul-qatl. Directed by @ArafatMazhar . Coming October 2020.
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@ArafatMazhar
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A psychopath serial killer is roaming free as a TLP leader. Muhammad Naeem Chattha Qadri in Sargodha barking “a Choora was killed - that is a good thing” / “A choora died - so what? Did it cause a qiyamat?” Two years ago he called for pregnant ahmedi women to be killed
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@ArafatMazhar
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TW: Dear PM: I'm a man. example of clothes I was wearing and where I was while experiencing sexual violence of varying degrees. Shalwar Kameez at local barber shop and home. School Uniform at Chemistry Lab. T Shrit and trousers in Model Town. 7 to 35 yr old Male.
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"but cheating is wro..." please shut up already. everyone knows that cheating is wrong. you haven't discovered the answer to a complex moral dilemna. vulgar asymmetrical violence on the other hand still requires a conversation.
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@ArafatMazhar
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1 year
Still waiting for PTI to tell us about the structural reforms that limits military intervention, holds them accountable, limits their budget/expenses. Will we see an end to missing persons? Will we be educated on 1971 atrocities of military?
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@ArafatMazhar
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Idaaron ki tauheen. Fauj ki tauheen. Adliya ki tauheen. Mazhab ki tauheen. Nabi ki tauheen. Our obsession with tauheen and Izzat is hilarious at this point
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@ArafatMazhar
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patriarchy is cruel. whether i was 8 as a survivor or 35. cant detail but month ago hit a parado. hyper masculine men. midnight in model town. attempted sexual assault. 8 or 35 i had to go thru what noone should have to. don't say sorry. been brave past month. I'm proud of myself
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@ArafatMazhar
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2 years
Joyland was given a certificate of approval after a careful review by the censor boards. Please call Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and demand that they stand up to the small pressure groups that do not represent us 051 9103557 9211800  9213649
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@ArafatMazhar
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1 year
10 Hanafi Jurists and their positions you should know about that refutes Pakistan's Blasphemy Law 295-C 🧵
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@ArafatMazhar
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Wonder who is damaging these universities
@Malala
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There can be no future for Gaza if its children have no place to live and learn safely. Today, more than 80% of Gaza’s schools and all universities have been damaged or destroyed.
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@AliiRaza__ and @PSCollective_ being removed from the human rights conference
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@ArafatMazhar
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we should be unconditionally condemning paramilitary forces abducting Ik, military calling shots, internet shutdowns. Your distaste for military as an institution should trump your distaste for IK. Also progressive voices shud be nuanced in their analysis of violence/protest.
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@ArafatMazhar
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An ahmadi kid goes into a medical store which says “qadiyani kutton ka aana mana hai”. Every time he enters he leaves his humanity behind. A sunni kid enters the same store and learns - he is human because he is •not• qadiyani. He grows up and kills that sub-human ahmadi. Why
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@ArafatMazhar
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Blasphemy law 295C in Pakistan is a stain on the Islamic legal tradition and merely a mutation of the British blasphemy codes + borrowed languages from western Libel/Defamation laws
@ItsMeeZeee
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What’s that one fact in context of Islamic teachings that would have you in this position in this society.
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One of the biggest lies we have believed as Muslims in Pakistan is that our love for the prophet muhammad pbuh is directly proportional to our hate for the Ahmadiyyah community
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@ArafatMazhar
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Humayyun Saeed kisses a white woman on the crown and he is a stud at worst. A member from Khawajasira community stars in an ensemble cast in Joyland and it gets banned? #ReleaseJoyland
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@ArafatMazhar
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Twitter has completely banned me from retweet or comments of on the video of german ambassador shouting at civil rights activist at the asma jahangir human rights conference
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@ArafatMazhar
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Today in public I was stopped by passers by TWICE to tell me with a lot of passion and love - that they have seen the video on blasphemy law and shared it on WhatsApp groups. One of the girls said it was forwarded to her by her father. There was a lot of concern that I might
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@ArafatMazhar
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جب شہر کھنڈر بن جائے گا پھر کس پر سنگ اٹھاؤ گے
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@ArafatMazhar
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Eid Mubarak. Free Palestine. Ahmadi lives matter.
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last year i was in a car accident fight with 3 men at midnight. i was sexually assaulted in model town. sexual violence is about power. not fahashi. children/adults of all genders are subjected to it everyday. it is a violent experience to hear IK. nothing short of apology can do
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looking to organize against the weaponization of ishq e rasool and Blasphemy. Human rights workers. political workers. film makers. artist. accountant. lawyer. anthro. influencer. doesn't matter. if you want to consider joining email me at arafat @engagepakistan .com
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@ArafatMazhar
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Hearing news of @MJibranNasir abducted. If it is true the cowardly state better release him #releasejibrannasir
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@ArafatMazhar
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Moved to tears listening to broken voices singing local hymns
@aqliyatihuqooq
Minority Rights March
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Ujaara hamara Jaranwala tumne, 21 churchoun ko jalaya tumne, Hamaray gharoun par na'haq qabza jamaya tumne, Aur phir poochtay ho Pakistan ko badnaam karwaya kisne? 16th August will be etched as a black day in Pakistan —🧵
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@ArafatMazhar
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You guys think it is a joke to make a parody account for a movement that faces death threats and accusations of treason/blasphemy every year? 90% people seem to be taking this as the real account. Any harm will be on your hands
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Aurat March is considering your suggestion. However, we can't highlight plight of women belonging to political parties like PTI with whom we have serious disagreements. Also, our movement is aligned with US and European cultural imperialism & values, especially their LGBT agenda.
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@ArafatMazhar
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When we reflect on the mob violence in Pakistan, our answer cannot just be - “jahil qoum”. That is not only arrogant but intellectually lazy and useless. Civil rights isn’t a civilisation project. It is to diagnose structural issues that pit our people against each other
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Search khatam e nabuwwat in your google map. This isn’t an expression of faith - it is an expression of paranoia and insecurity at the expense of a whole community feeling they can be exterminated at any time
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message to all the tlp trolls that have been extra active. You have zero effect on my resolve. i feel as hopeful as i ever have been that blasphemy violence will end soon iA. It is a matter of “when” not “if”. You re not “many”. You re just loud. We are many. And we re
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A psychopath serial killer is roaming free as a TLP leader. Muhammad Naeem Chattha Qadri in Sargodha barking “a Choora was killed - that is a good thing” / “A choora died - so what? Did it cause a qiyamat?” Two years ago he called for pregnant ahmedi women to be killed
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@ArafatMazhar
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Thru multiple sources: 1) arbitrary arrests in Lahore. Dozens come in, break cameras and take away women 2) women’s phones are taken and police goes through private stuff 3) they know info that can only be known through detailed tapping including knowledge of WhatsApp content
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@ArafatMazhar
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I see widespread despair in the face of blasphemy violence. The crisis is indeed weighty, but we need to be more precise. In 2023, 87% of Pakistan's districts had zero blasphemy cases 🧵
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@ArafatMazhar
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@ArifAlvi must not sign the anti-Shia blasphemy law amendment on 298A because 1) this was drafted by Sipah Sahaba leaders one of whom is literally named “Moavia” - who publicly acknowledged handing it to Jamaat e Islami leaders. This banned hate group does not represent us
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@ArafatMazhar
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To say you are against misuse of blasphemy law but support the substance of law is Ill informed. The very misuse is written into the design of the law. It is inevitable that the law, that creates purposeful ambiguity on what actually constitutes blasphemy, will invite misuse
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@ArafatMazhar
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Hanif Qureshi, after having Taseer murdered, simply got away by saying “I don’t know of any Mumtaz Qadri”. We hanged/made a saint out of Qadri and never punished the illness behind the symptom. We cannot let history repeat itself with these TLP leaders
@TweetsOfPR
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TLP Amir of Nawabshah Division, Mushtaq Rivzvi, has placed a bounty of Rs. 1 crore on a man named Imran for #blasphemy . He stated: "Either kill him or provide me with information about him; I will kill him myself and claim the Rs. 1 crore bounty."
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@ArafatMazhar
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No - the chief justice did NOT just permit printing altered copies of Quran. Maafi deh dou internet 🙏 people die when you play these games
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If he was allowed to complete his term, popularity of IK would have been a shadow of what it is today. The intelligentsia has this idiotic thesis that “engineering is the only way to undo an engineered rise of IK”. cuz of their meddling they have given him more organic support
@StaaaPlaar
خان
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- Change PAKISTAN SUPER LEAGUE name to IMRAN KHAN SUPER LEAGUE lahori once again, JEEWEY JEEWEY IMRAN KHAN
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This was a little heart breaking. As a bengali-Pakistan I have been aching recently to reach out to my people. I thought someone from Bangladesh reached out to me. Turns out it is just another intimidation/empty threat taken right from the US alt-right play book
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We were able to map over 1300+ incidents of hate material in Lahore, alone. We cannot allow visible dehumanization and then be shocked when it comes to its decidedly violent end. We cannot allow young people who shop for mobiles at a mall or medicines at a pharmacy to read such
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These kids - ahmadi/sunno- both of whom are experiencing violence - go buy a mobile, fix a laptop, enter a bakery to find their favourite kid. All the areas below - they learn about who is human and who is not. A decade later, one murders the other. Why are we surprised?
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It is absolutely appalling that the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has adopted the fabricated (maudhu)/weak (dhaif) tradition "من سبا نبی فاقتلو" (translation: Kill who insults the Prophet) as their political slogan all over Lahore.
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@ArafatMazhar
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Instagram par Fanon, Foucault, Angela Davis ki readings laganey ka kia Fayeeda if, when you see a group of policemen vs one woman throwing her dupatta on the road, your take is still “women have to suffer consequences if they don’t respect law and order”
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State institutions discussing former First Lady’s menstrual cycles with no hint of Ghairat but god forbid if you re a woman and go to a pharmacy to buy pads:
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@ArafatMazhar
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if ducky videos on phone reviews can reach to a million folks then a film that took 1.5 year and dozens of peoples heart and soul to make with the intent of free access should be shared everywhere. saath dijie hamara dost and share 🤍
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@ArafatMazhar
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State will never arrest this guy who is directly threatening CJP? Why does hanif qureshi keep getting away with this? 12 years ago he was screaming on top of his lungs for someone to shoot Salman Taaseer
@SydZainRaza
Syed Zain Raza
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Not to forget that this terrorist Hanif Qureshi (also involved with Salman Taseer sahab's murderer Mumtaz Qadri) gets invited to Faysal Qureshi's Ramzan Transmission on BOL every year!
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I spoke to @ZarrarKhuhro about the way in September 1986, in just a few hours 295C was passed, despite the brave voice of Hamza sb who asked the legislators to send it for review by experts precisely because of the vague terms such as imputation, innuendo, insinuation and
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@ArafatMazhar
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Hate groups are concentrated in a small, densely populated area - just 8-10 districts. Targeted interventions, including crackdowns and public education, can be focused on these areas.
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You are 110 times more likely to be accused of blasphemy if you are a chrisrian woman than if you are a sunni woman. This statistics points to an emergency. This does NOT include data from last 2 years (Jaramwala or Sargodha). Data available at CRSS website
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WHY AREN’T MORE PEOPLE SCREAMING ABOUT THIS. I don’t care if the CM is a woman if the structures of violence are more powerful than ever
@Matiullahjan919
Matiullah Jan
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Arrest of @AsadAToor by @FIA_Agency is highly condemnable. This is a chilling reminder to the journalist community that in a hybrid system of government nothing actually changes with the elections.
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Dil ko thand mili to hear him. He should be heading a civil rights movement
Salman Akram Raja rightfully called out Pervez Hoodbhoy lot at point-blank range.
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Online mass protest against blasphemy law 4 pm on 27th March. We will be mass posting an animated doc on blasphemy law that has been in the works for almost a year. You will need to download a file and then upload on respective social medias. dm me for link to download file
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A law that produces more extra-legal violence is a failed law. All through the 80s absurd amendments in blasphemy laws were made with the promise that this will stop extra-judicial violence. There WAS no extra judicial violence. Who benefited from pretending there is a problem
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Since some of you are trying to send death threats. Your anonymous threats are impotent. i don’t even believe you. Do better. I have faced real death threats from men who aren’t behind a screen. You don’t scare me, nor do you move me to an escalated reactionary stance. Allah o
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I hope all of us can have a percent of moral clarity, maturity and courage as you and your comrades.
@AliiRaza__
Ali Raza
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میڈیا کے سامنے تھپڑ نہیں مار سکتے تھے اس لیے ناخن مارے۔ کتنا پیار ہے سیکیورٹی اور انتظامیہ کو جرمن ایممبیسڈر کے ساتھ #AJCONF24
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Agar rigging hu hi rahi hai tu surely we can keep saad rizvi out. Tlp shouldn’t be eligible anyway
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Why are we taking qaiser raja seriously? He is a non-serious person thriving on people taking him seriously. Lets not waste our energy on the ignorant
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“Antisemitism” in the west and “blasphemy” in Pakistan have one thing in common. Both of them have ceased to mean anything because people disingenuously have expanded the word to include everything and anything. When a word means everything, it means nothing
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I would like to tell my PTI friends that comparison to 1971 and military atrocities in that war is in bad taste
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@sohnianika sigh. have always wanted a daughter so badly. ever since i was 20. i have dreamt of having a daughter. little details of how id make her feel safe nourished loved secure. it was the most heartbreaking thing to not have had one more than a decade and a divorce later.
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We need to stop saying “we are against misuse of law” and we need to start saying “we are against a law that only gets misused”. after all, when has there been a good use of the law?
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Fun fact: in 40 years since it’s passing every single case of blasphemy under 295C has been proven false/fake by the time it arrives at the Supreme Court. Not a SINGLE case has been proven by the time SC reviews it.
@ArafatMazhar
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I hear a lot of “blasphemy law ka ghalat istemaal nahin huna chahiye”. Name ONE “correct” use of 295C in past 40 years.. If you can’t think of any then join us in ridding all design flaws in law that enable “misuse”
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Blasphemy violence is not a TLP issue as much as it is Tehreek e Namoos e Risalat+Tehreek e Khatam e Nabuwwat activists issue of which TLP is an electoral face. Crackdown required not just on TLP but on all such hate groups masquerading as NGOs and charities
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1 year
One of the blackest days in Pakistani history
@MonaChaudhryy
Mona Farooq Ahmad
1 year
13 yrs ago today, on #28thMay2010 in Lahore Pakistan, terrorists attacked two Ahmadiyya Mosques, killing 86 innocent worshippers during Friday prayers. One of the darkest days in the history of Pakistan that can never be forgotten!! #lahoreattack
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@ArafatMazhar
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I’m so grateful to you all.- the conversation on twitter is bold, clear and critical about 295C like never before. This is a moment - so keep up the momentum. Please download videos upload on your profiles (insta/fb/twitterblue/WhatsApp). Decentralise it
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Today we demand that we separate the lies from the truth and shed light on the very words in 295-C that have created terror and horror in the name of a man who taught us mercy and compassion #talkabout295C
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5 years
Hanafi scholars agree that only deliberate and repetitive instances of blasphemy should be punished. This means that Pakistan's blasphemy law is NOT in line with the developed Islamic jurisprudence on the subject and that there is room for reform from WITHIN the Islamic tradition
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The texts quoted in parliament establish the opposite. Most importantly, there is a consensus of Imam Abu Hanifa and his students that non-Muslims CANNOT be given the death penalty for blasphemy & that Muslim blasphemers should be treated as apostates (& given chance for pardon)
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the void left by rizvis death isn't going to be filled up by someone less horrible. when did death of a radical violent leader stop the violence in the heart of men.
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Lynching people for allegedly burning the Quran while cleaning, Meanwhile hiding child abuse happening in sacred house of worship. In every way this is heresy, blasphemy and deserving of public wrath against anyone who dares defend this epidemic
@syedzaighum110
Syed Zaighum Kazmi
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Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza dropped truth bombs regarding pedophile Molvis and also referred Qaiser Ahmed Raja as the front man for these looti Mullas.
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@ArafatMazhar
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I urge all mainstream political party supporters and voters to get behind this educational campaign. Otherwise this instrument made by anti democratic forces will burn the mainstream politics alive l. Don’t forget that all major civil leaders have been called blasphemers. IK and
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Today we demand that we separate the lies from the truth and shed light on the very words in 295-C that have created terror and horror in the name of a man who taught us mercy and compassion #talkabout295C
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Reports coming from Sargodha of a 60 year old christian man lynched for allegedly burning Quran while cleaning. Blasphemy is a ticking time bomb. We need to fix it at the heart
@ArafatMazhar
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Today we demand that we separate the lies from the truth and shed light on the very words in 295-C that have created terror and horror in the name of a man who taught us mercy and compassion #talkabout295C
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@ArafatMazhar
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1 year
Life of a Whatsapp Forward Message: A short film by ⁦ @ShehriPakistan ⁩ - A timely PSA as the political climate escalates and we approach the Elections. All parties feel a sense of past injustice which animates a righteousness with which fake news is peddled for end goals
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@ArafatMazhar
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2 months
students around the world are holding us accountable and demanding of us to do better
@PSCollective_
Progressive Students’ Collective
2 months
A detailed video statement by Progressive Students' Collective regarding the protest against German Ambassador at Asma Jahangir Conference Lahore. PSC is going to organize Palestine Solidarity Protest against the genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Israel. #AJCONF24
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@ArafatMazhar
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blasphemy violence has ceased to be just a human rights issue. It is now a security and terrorism issue
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Today we demand that we separate the lies from the truth and shed light on the very words in 295-C that have created terror and horror in the name of a man who taught us mercy and compassion #talkabout295C
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AI-generated blasphemy accusations will hit all your political leaders. It is inevitable. Anyone who has speeches available to train AI. No civil leader will be exempt. We must pre-empt this with holistic legal reform, evidentiary standards and public awareness campaigns as well
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Two Ahmadi men killed. In the name of ishq and honor. We live in an upside down world where love means murder and honor means to exterminate. This ishq politics has a genocidal intent
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We must condemn this on every platform. These are the kinds of speeches that produce violence. And when violence happens, we wonder where it came from
@ReporterBhatti
Imran Bhatti
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کیپٹن ر محمد صفدر کا بڑا انکشاف اسرائیل ربوہ میں قادیانی اسٹیٹ بنا رہا ہے۔المیہ ہے پارلیمنٹ و سینیٹ میں کوئی نہیں بولتا۔کیا سیاسی جماعتیں ٹکٹ دیتے وقت ختم نبوت کا حلف لیتی ہیں؟ کیپٹن ر صفدر
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3 years
after a day of imposter syndrome seeing my name alongside oscar winning and nominated directors it has finally sunk in. @swipefilm and Jugno are going to France and Croatia to @annecyfestival and @Animafest_Zg the oldest and 2nd oldest animated film festivals
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Dedicated to Bahria Town, Lake City, DHA. A short by ⁦ @rasti_farooq ⁩ and Sawera Jahan for ⁦ @ShehriPakistan ⁩. Displacing people from their lands is often sold as development
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all the designers at @ShehriPakistan were busy. a poster was needed. I MADE THIS IN 30 MINUTES! so proud 😊
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If you are outraged then join these students as @PSCollective_ protests in Lahore in-front of the US Embassy on Tuesday at 1 pm.
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2 months
young human rights activists disrupt the german ambassadors speech during the Asma Jahangir Conference for their role in the genocide in Gaza
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The whole state apparatus needs to come into action and protect the minority community at Sargodha. Mobs are possibly expected based on this allegation registered on 25th. 14 year old christian kid has been picked up and christian residents are being told to leave their houses
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6 years
The Untold Truth of Pakistan's Blasphemy Law A Reconciliation with the Past and a Way Forward As promised a comprehensive and unprecedented report on pakistans blasphemy law is now up. Urdu and Eng versions available at
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@ArafatMazhar
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5 years
The initial bill for 295-C only contained life imprisonment as the punishment for blasphemy, the death penalty was penciled in on the insistence of parliamentarians who insisted that there was an ijma (consensus of Islamic scholars) that the only punishment for blasphemy is death
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@ArafatMazhar
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Today my podcast will go live where I bring up many more issues in the blasphemy law beyond my usual thesis. The point is to identify the misuse of the blasphemy law within the letter of the law. I expect there to be backlash as the audience to this podcast is majorly
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An appreciation post for @AmmarRashidT shows some struggles can really happen outside of NGO structures where you re not dependent on the state to green light your remittances or threaten you with shutdowns. Also someone needs to watch/audit our human rights watchdogs/monitors
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@ArafatMazhar
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4 months
I directed this animated film three years ago on the absurdity of blasphemy allegations. Feel free to download it, share it with family, screen with family in the lounge tomorrow. some attempt to make sense of the world
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