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I teach politics and sociology. @UFV . Formerly @LifeAtLUMS , @LSENews
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Between 1927 and 1986, there were only 14 reported incidents of blasphemy in Pakistan. Between 1986 and 2010, that number rose to 1274. Did society become more blasphemous? No. The law just made it easier to settle scores with false accusations. Junaid Hafeez must be freed now.
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A gentle reminder that this was the Pakistan of the 0.001%. This cosmopolitan 'liberalism' existed amidst grinding poverty, authoritarian rule, the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities, and domination by a small, insouciant elite.
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Well, that was a stupid prediction.
My prediction for the elections: there will be a result.
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1. The end of the PTI government and the return to power of the PML-N and PPP has once again prompted a discussion of dynastic politics in Pakistan. This is an important issue that merits attention.
Dynastic politics in Pakistan - a thread.
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1970 - Rigged
1977 - Rigged
1985 - Rigged
1988 - Rigged
1990 - Rigged
1993 - Rigged
2002 - Rigged
2008 - Rigged
2013 - Most Rigged Ever.
2018 - Not rigged. Everything changed.
2022 - Schrodinger's election. Both rigged and not rigged until result is declared.
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Why Imran Khan should not be disqualified. A thread.
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Updated timeline for a proposed Pak Studies textbook.
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Right now there's a retired general out there furiously typing an op-ed on why Pakistan needs a presidential system with technocrats.
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The snacks politicians eat while making awkward small talk. A thread.
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As one hybrid experiment comes to an ignominious end, you can rest assured that lessons have not been learnt. The struggle against authoritarianism and the establishment's political engineering continues.
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It's going to be wild when Twitter discovers Aitchison College...
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I think it needs more pictures of Imran Khan.
Stage design for Karachi Jalsa on Saturday, April 16, 2022
Inshallah, it will be the biggest jalsa Karachi has ever witnessed.
#امپورٹڈ_گورمنٹ_نامنظور
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Thread: Prime Minister Imran Khan was right to raise the issue of Kashmir at the UNGA. He spoke forcefully about the oppression being unleashed on Kashmir by India, and has rightly worked to draw international attention to it. No other Pakistani leader has ever done this
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It is scandalous that Afghans in Pakistan - many of whom were born and raised here - never had a path to citizenship, were treated like pariahs, and are now being expelled as part of a cynical political game being played by GHQ and the craven fools in the caretaker government.
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IK may be on his way out but the structural problems with Pakistan's governance - the power of the military establishment and an entrenched economic elite - persist. Today's SC decision is welcome, but the struggle for progressive and democratic politics must continue.
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Yeah. Tabdeeli brought by an Aitchison and Oxford educated cricket player living in a 40 acre mansion and backed by defecting members of the traditional landed and capitalist elite, not to mention the military, makes so much more sense.
Elitist socialism is one of the saddest ironies the socialist movement has encountered. There I said it.
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As a student of Pakistani history, can I just say how boring it is to see the same tired script play out over and over again...
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Fwiw, I emailed Prof. Chomsky to verify whether the exchange mentioned in this blog post happened. He confirmed that it had, and that these are indeed his views on the possibility of the US being behind IK's ouster.
Chomsky says he hadn't seen “any meaningful evidence” to support this assertion of coup.
Commenting on the cable from the former ambassador to the US, Mr Asad Majeed as evidence, Chomsky said that he did not regard that as “substantial evidence“.
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7. Mangoes. Chaat. Fried eggs. Yogurt. Orange juice. Not for sharing.
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Assuming this is true, it makes sense. Topple PTI in the centre but keep them afloat in Punjab to prevent any one party from getting too comfortable. Divide and rule, engineer instability, play both sides... classic GHQ.
It was General Bajwa who asked us to side with Imran Khan and go against PDM, says Moonis Elahi dealing a blow to PTI’s foreign conspiracy narrative
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Friends in the PTI who think what's happening right now is because of the establishment's machinations, what do you think the military was doing in 2018 (and before)?
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Pakistan in a nutshell: Different factions of the Lahori elite creating a national political crisis over a colonial-era boarding school whose white principal was ousted by the Punjab governor after refusing to provide preferential treatment to the sons of a powerful minister.
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Also remember that religion was hardly marginal to public life in this period. Anti-Ahmadi riots, the 2nd Amendment, the use of Islam to suppress and demonize left-wing and ethno-national dissent. Zia did not break with the past... he built on it.
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This poster is a masterpiece of the genre. The patriarch and the next generation front and centre, bathed in glowing hues. The great leader, bleached, small, and forlorn in a corner. The text emphasizing family. The party's key slogan included as an afterthought at the bottom...
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Interviewer: You act a lot like these populist, right-wing authoritarians around the world. Are you one of them?
IK: Have I ever told you how much I hate corruption?
PTI Supporters in the QTs: Our leader is the first person in all of human history to answer a question! 🤩🤩
I compared Pakistan's former prime minister, Imran Khan, to populist strongman Jair Bolsonaro. To his credit, he took it okay. In the full interview I also told him he was acting a bit like Sherlock Holmes so there was a lot going on! 📺 Watch!
@dwnews
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6. In 2013 Ali Cheema, Farooq Naseer, and I wrote a paper that estimated over 50% of legislators in the 2008 National Assembly were 'dynastic' politicians. Further, we calculated that politics in Punjab had been dominated by just 400 families since 1970.
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Everything isn't a plan. Every outcome isn't engineered. Let's not overestimate the competence and strategic genius of the Establishment. They tried to rig the elecions and have clearly failed. What the PTI has done is remarkable. What lies ahead is uncertain.
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Pakistan: where you have a right-wing media, right-wing curriculum, right-wing parties, right-wing militants, right-wing national ideology, even right-wing cooking oil commercials, but where only a handful of progressive college professors get accused of bias and indoctrination.
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In other parts of the world, young people are encouraged to be astronauts, poets, doctors, and artists. In Pakistan, they are told trolling people on Twitter is a higher calling.
It's important to note that Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor sahab has directed the youth of the country towards higher cause. The social media which was once hub of meaningless debates is now dominated by true nationalists.
#DGISPR_KingOf5thGenWar
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13. Take the PTI. It claims to be a party fighting against the status quo and came to power in 2018 with a vow to end corruption and bring about radical reform. Yet, an analysis of its members in the 2018 Punjab Assembly shows that 77% of them were dynastic politicians.
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Any party that wishes to build a more democratic and progressive Pakistan must do the following:
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I am shocked... SHOCKED... to hear that a judge may have been blackmailed into ruling against a civilian politician in Pakistan. Next you'll tell me that elections here are rigged too.
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Dr. Mazari seems to have really found her voice once out of office. We should work to ensure she and her party return to power so that she can once again remain silent about the rights of minorities and those disappeared by the state.
Your petty hatred for PTI knows no bounds! But luckily u don't speak for majority of Pakistanis, just for your foreign NGO! We have had enough of pontification and arrogance! Now go cry to your NGO! #امپورٹڈ_حکومت_نامنظور
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This is why we need a TV channel to fight Islamophobia.
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The last one sold cows, this one's going to sell his clothes. Wonderful.
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22. Indeed, it is worth examining the PTI's own structure when considering these questions. Imran Khan may not be a dynastic leader, but he presides over a party of dynastic politicians. Until that changes, the PTI's radical promise will continue to remain radical pretensions.
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Tell the Baloch, the brutalized people of KP and FATA, the innocent men imprisoned in Guantanamo, Mukhtaran Mai, and the hundreds who went 'missing', that it was worth it because Musharraf had a picture taken with his dogs and didn't ban rock music.
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It's a good thing she met the LUMS human wing. The LUMS demon wing might have been a bit much.
Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif met ASP Shahrbano Naqvi. She hugged and patted the ASP. She also met the Lums Leadership and Human wing. Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s active role as Chief Minister was lauded by both the students and teachers of Lums, they also expressed appreciation
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1. Some PTI friends appear to be dismayed that the PTI has selected a dynastic candidate. If they think that's shocking, though, I wonder how they'll feel when they discover that about 80% of the party's winning candidates in Punjab have been dynastic since 2018...
Father Shah Mehmood Qureshi already in NA and brother Zain first in NA (now PA) certainly
@PTIofficial
is proving to be no different from parties
@ImranKhanPTI
accuse of dynasty politics
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1) They're called rose-tinted glasses for a reason. Many like to believe their favourite country/college/restaurant etc. was much better in the past. Often, the truth is that things were as bad as they are now, maybe even worse.
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High turnouts make rigging harder. Hence the very visible panic in Pindi right now.
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Believe it or not, the military and imperialism are problems Pakistan had before April 2022.
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Musharraf deserves as much sympathy as he showed the Baloch, the dissidents he imprisoned, the 'terrorists' he sold to the United States, the rape victims he mocked, and the populations displaced and decimated due to his double-dealing role in the War on Terror. Let him rot.
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This article forgot to mention that General Bajwa frequently distributes ice cream to children in need, routinely tops the charts with stirring renditions of patriotic songs, and selflessly chooses not to play sports for fear of embarassing his opponents.
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Disgraced general convicted of treason and guilty of countless crimes against his own people dies in exile.
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1. The military was and is primarily to blame for ousting IK.
2. The PDM has deepened the military's power, continuing the 'hybrid' project.
3. The military and civilian elite refuse to look beyond their narrow self-interest.
4. The future is uncertain... and probably grim.
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If you opposed the PTI and Bandial for being on the 'same page' as the military establishment but now have nothing to say about Faez Isa, the PML, and Gen. Munir, you were never really opposed to the establishment...
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The military establishment is 'undoing the deep roots' of military interference in politics by... deepening the roots of military interference in politics.
Masterful gambit, sir.
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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1. What is happening in Kashmir is tragic and unconscionable. The people of Kashmir deserve our complete support and solidarity, and it is our duty to centre their voices and aid them however they feel is right and necessary.
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Opposing the PTI doesn't mean you have to support the establishment.
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I've set up a group that helps you prepare a resume for acceptance into groups that help you prepare a resume. Get in touch if you want to join.
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After the first ever visit by a Pakistani PM to the US, the first ever meetings held by a Pakistani PM in the US, and the first ever speech before the UNGA by a Pakistani PM, can we now focus on domestic politics? Economic crisis, censorship, stalled governance... all that stuff?
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Buzdar should be removed as CM. He's wasted there. He should be the next PM.
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3. Concentrating power in the hands of one family can prevent parties from becoming more internally democratic, impeding the development and promotion political talent. It breeds nepotism, can stymie the emergence of new ideas, and undermines effective political campaigning.
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Noone: ...
International media: Pakistan, a NUCLEAR state with NUCLEAR NUKES is witnessing protests amid fears for the safety of NUCLEAR NUCLEARS!
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Celebrity nephew and men's rights activist Hassaan Niazi suddenly realizes it's not a good idea to support and join a violent mob, pose for selfies in front of a ransacked hospital, and attack a police van. How could he have possibly known that beforehand?!
After watching this clip I feel ashamed of myself. This is murder!!!
My support and protest was limited to initiation of legal action against the concerned doctors. I only stand for peaceful protests.
It’s sad day and I condemn my own self for supporting this protest now
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'The new cases were allegedly kept hidden from the government and from international donors... under direct instruction from Babar Bin Atta, the prime minister’s focal representative on polio eradication'.
Disgraceful but sadly unsurprising.
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You don't always have to pick a side - politics is complicated - but if you do, don't pick the establishment.
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1. The Sehat Card has helped a lot of people and will continue to do so. Once introduced, welfare programmes are difficult to rollback and I think it would be a serious mistake for the PML or any other party to end this one.
However...
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Youth and inexperience are understandable excuses for Gen Z, but I am fascinated by people who lived through Zia, Musharraf, and the 1990s, and only now feel the military is a problem in Pakistan. For many of them, partisan alignment will probably trump principle in the long run.
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1. Back when the Sehat Card was first introduced, some of us pointed out that while it would undoubtedly help people, it would probably also lead to privatization and higher costs in the long run. This now appears to be happening.
Hospitals privatize. Prices increase. Cost of treatment increases. Insurance premium increases. Higher fiscal deficit. Y'all have a front row seat to a train wreck in slow motion.
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2. Much of the discussion about dynastic politics focuses on the leadership of the PML-N and PPP, highlighting how the Sharifs and the Bhuttos have monopolized power and decision-making in their parties. There are a number of reasons why this can be problematic.
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5. However, all of this misses the point. Dynasticism in Pakistani politics is not limited to the leadership of the major parties. It is pervasive in the party system, with provincial and national level elections being dominated by candidates drawn from local political dynasties.
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What an awful, ignorant take. Men are also victims of sexual assault, and the rape of men is often ignored precisely because of toxic ideas about strength and masculinity. As the case of Terry Crews shows, for example, rape isn't about phyiscal vulnerability... it's about power.
There are two men claiming they were raped by Hameed Haroon. I have a question: how can a grown man be raped by another individual? Couldn't they have fought him off. Hameed is not athletic at all. One punch in the solar plexus should have done it.
Or were these men willing?
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A Guide to Technocratic Governance in Pakistan
Technocrat = Banker
Economist = Accountant
Expert = McKinsey Consultant
All of the Above = Bureaucrat
Experienced = The Same Old Guys
New Faces = The Same Old Guys, but with different haircuts
Democracy = Eww.
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I see a lot of PTI friends getting confused over whether the FT foreign funding piece is part of an international conspiracy to defame IK, or a stellar piece of investigative journalism because it reports Arif Naqvi allegedly offered the Sharifs money as well...
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4. These issues can be mitigated or avoided depending on the organizational structure of a party and how receptive its leadership is to other voices. Similarly, a party dominated by one charismatic leader - as the PTI is - would probably encounter similar organizational problems.
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This was the only interesting (and important) part of the World Cup.
Requesting everyone not to share the image of that protestor who came to steal the limelight wearing free palestine T shirt. He wanted eyeballs. Stop giving it by sharing the image.
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The problem has never been which leader is better or worse. The problem was and is the military reserving the right to choose who is or is not allowed to rule.
Let's be clear: What's happening right now has nothing to do with democracy, civilian supremacy, and the rule of law.
Islamabad High Court rules that former PM Imran Khan’s arrest was legal.
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This is unfair. Some of us have no interest in that. For example, I work tirelessly to induct my students into an ancient Sumerian death cult dedicated to the demon Lamashtu. You can't get an A unless you bathe in the blood of an animal sacrificed at Lamashtu's infernal altar.
Forget Fazlur Rahman. Worry about the thousands of children being indoctrinated by political liberals running the top private schools and the thousands who are indoctrinated by them and the Left in universities.
This is our future.
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If you were born before 1990 and enthusiastically supported Musharraf - and perhaps even endorsed the idea of militay rule until about a year ago - forgive me if I don't weep tears of gratitude when you tell us about the one protest against the military you attended last week.
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21. By relying on 'electables' to win power, the PTI in 2018 ended up looking a lot like the parties it campaigned against. Furthermore, despite recent events, it is too early to tell if the party will re-evaluate its tactics as Pakistan moves towards the next general elections.
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Why ask the 'woke twitter brigade'?
Remember when Gen. Faiz said, "everything will be okay"? Go ask him and the other strategic geniuses who spent the last three decades propping the Taliban up in Afghanistan and promised that their return to power would mean the end of the TTP
At least 3 Pakistani soliders have lost their lives in a cross-border TTP attack from Afghanistan.
TTP is using Afghanistan soil to kill Pakistani soldiers. Afghan Taliban not doing anything to stop it.
What are the options for Pakistan ? Please ask woke twitter brigade.
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12. It would not be incorrect to suggest that this traditional class of elite politicians is one of the major impediments to reform in Pakistan. That is also why it is necessary to be skeptical and, indeed, critical of claims made by parties about their commitment to change.
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One year from now - maybe two - there will be another crisis. The leaders may be different, and roles may be reversed, but the conflict will be the same.
None of this will change until there is a collective commitment to challenging the military establishment.
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16. Focusing on the Sharifs and the Bhuttos is fair and valid, but the actual exercise of power at the local level remains dominated by dynasties that have succeeded in perpetuating their power for generations. Yet, they remain absent from discussions of dynastic politics.
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I wonder of the government will be as enthusiastic about recovering 'looted wealth' from former generals named in the Credit Suisse leaks as it is when it comes to its political opponents.
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Maybe the real deepfakes are the friends he made along the way...
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7. We found that 'dynastic' politicians dominated electoral competition in Punjab; they were more likely to win elections than non-dynastic candidates, and many electoral contests were simply competitions between rival dynastic families.
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Beautiful.
If we want to know why Pakistan is an utter failure as a nation, we ought to study how the junta treated East Pakistan. The junta was enabled by the bureaucracy, business groups & educated elite. This small clique exploited the East’s resources & denied its people representation.
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The 'new Italian leader' is literally a fascist, so Dr. Mazari's admiration for her makes complete sense.
Interesting statement by the new Italian leader on French President Macron. This is democracy & this is defending your own nation first.
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Have seen a few tweets wondering what Pakistan needs to do to be a 'global player'.
Tbh, wouldn't it be enough to be a reasonably prosperous, low key, mostly unremarkable country that does a good job of looking after its citizens?
Like a very large Lithuania or something...
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"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." - Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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14. The other parties are no different. 75% of the PML-N's legislators in the Punjab Assembly were dynastic politicians. Nearly, if not all, of the PPP's members were dynastic, and the same is also true of the PML-Q.
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8. What is a 'dynastic' politician? For our paper, we defined dynastic politicians as those who had close family members - parents, grandparents, siblings, and children - who had competed in provincial and national elections since 1970.
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10. More importantly, the overwhelming majority of these dynastic politicians belong to the rich, propertied classes. They are landlords and industrialists (sometimes both), and use their political power to secure their interests as a class.
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At this critical time for Pakistani startups, a gentle reminder that you're not allowed to have an opinion on General Musharraf's 1999 coup unless you yourself have ever forcibly seized control of a nuclear-armed nation of 200 million people.
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Forgive me if I am skeptical of your anti-imperialism/anti-military posturing. Until recently, you were perfectly happy to cheer for the Establishment when it crushed dissent and persecuted opponents in Balochistan, KP, and elsewhere.
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Your blood should boil when you read this. Damn the the insouciant ruling class that has forced Pakistanis to flee, and damn prosperous, civilized, liberal Europe that has nothing but contempt and hatred for the victims of its wars and imperial plunder.
"Pakistani nationals were also kept below deck, with crew members maltreating them when they appeared in search of fresh water or tried to escape" this story makes you want to weep
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9. Dynastic politicians are found in all the mainstream parties. They constitute the bulk of the 'electables' who tend to be awarded party tickets, and possess local vote banks held together over generations through a combination of economic power, status, and patronage.
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Islamabad:— Pakistan has exhausted all its diplomatic efforts to persuade Afghan Taliban regime to stop TTP.
— Any future terrorist attack by TTP from Afghan soil can result in Pakistan directly targeting TTP & its 'supporters' on Afghan soil. - sources
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Web 3.0 is going to revolutionize Pakistan by unlocking the digitized potentialities of a decentralized crypto ledger that employs tokens to facilitate the trade of NFTs with DAOs self-enforcing the MySQLs of the HTML5 metaverse.
#crypto
#DigitalTransformation
#finance
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Imran Khan: welcoming a resolution against the persecution of people based on their faith by celebrating the persecution of people based on their faith.
In today’s speech in Swat,
@ImranKhanPTI
said that the Islamophobia resolution at the UN is the biggest day since Pakistan barred “Qadianis” from calling themselves Muslims.
Celebrating Islamophobia & the persecution of Ahmadis.
Can it get any worse?
Watch clip below.
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