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@anasir__
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Saris by my incredibly talented khala. Photography by my 11-year old brother; pallu-holding and general background support by nani. #FamilyBizzness #SouthAsianArtists
@shahkaarbyadila
Shahkaar by Adila
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Hi! I’m Adila and I am a fabric painter. I am now trying to create a brand out of what was a hobby until recently. #SouthAsianArtists
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@anasir__
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Is it lame to email a professor to tell them how much I loved their class, now that the semester has ended?
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@anasir__
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3 years
Made the mistake of wearing a sari in Istanbul for Eid. EVERY SINGLE desi man I encountered in the city made it a point to make me feel uncomfortable. Following me, calling out, making videos etc. Dunya mai kahin bhee chalay jai, desi aadmi kay pandemic say nijaat nahi milti.
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@anasir__
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3 years
The only way to love Pakistan is to not have to live in Pakistan.
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@anasir__
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3 years
Based on all the mehendis happening on my Instagram, ya’ll are never getting rid of Covid. Sabb marr jain gay. Background May jalebi baby bajj raha ho ga.
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@anasir__
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3 years
Always amazed by the amount of shit married women go through, without realising exactly how bad it is. Like this girl on an all women group asking if it’s “normal” that her very loving and otherwise amazing husband goes out to meet his friends every.single.night till 2am.
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@anasir__
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3 years
I hope Nida Yasir interviews a crypto bro next
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@anasir__
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3 years
Zara Shahjahan really be selling this shameez and nightspot pyjama set for 6200 Rs with stylists calling it “sublime” 🤡 🤡
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@anasir__
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4 years
All the rishteydaars when they find out my fiancé is moving to the city I live in, to my apartment, because of my job.
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Caption this.
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@anasir__
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5 years
On a serious note: The poster that broke by heart yesterday? “I’ll build a house you can’t kick me out of”
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@anasir__
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4 years
Abba is bored so now he’s brought out the weighing machine and is weighing us all and scolding us for being underweight. Turns out there are infinite ways to disappoint my parents, even after getting perfect grades, great job, nice arain boy etc.
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@anasir__
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3 years
If Pakistan ever gets the vaccine, people who’ve been going maskless to big weddings should be put on the bottom of the waiting list.
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@anasir__
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Annual reminder that if you’re a Pakistani woman applying for undergrad/grad school abroad and need help reviewing essays, my DMs are open.
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3 years
The OIC could’ve met over zoom, but no, they had to come to Islamabad and shut the whole city down and be a pain in the ass, all while being just as ineffective in person.
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@anasir__
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I’ve spent the whole week studying CPEC in my macro class, and I don’t mean to be an alarmist, but YOU GUYS WE ARE FUCKED.
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@anasir__
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4 years
The wedding industry in Pakistan is probably our most/only resilient industry. It has weathered pandemics, oil shocks, currency shocks, gold price fluctuations, electricity and gas shortages, dictatorships, political upheavals, and still no sign of a slowdown or slump.
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Paid 1800 Rs for an online doctor’s consultation through an app. The helpline called to reschedule twice, doctor moved the appointment without telling, showed up late to the rescheduled appointment, had video on and was literally laying on his bed. Wow @ Pakistani tech startups
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@anasir__
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It’s scary how so many Pakistani women have such a skewed and fucked up bar for what a “respectful and caring” partner is.
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@anasir__
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Trust Lahoris to innovate by doing childbirth-inspired wedding decor.
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@anasir__
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5 years
WHY do salespeople in Pakistan follow you around the entire store?? I’m here to buy a goddamned kurta, but it feels like I am back in Garrison hall 3, taking my O Level exam while my invigilator breathes down my neck.
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@anasir__
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Whatsapp wisdom from Mother in Law:
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@anasir__
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A home of her own 💕
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@anasir__
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Hey grown men with wives and kids, telling a woman half your age “aap Mashallah bohat pyaari lag rahin hain” is neither a compliment, nor appropriate.
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Appreciate @mahobili for asking the real hard hitting policy questions:
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Not engaging with Imran Khan discourse on social media is my version of self care
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3 years
Can’t believe I have to say this for the millionth time, since #AlwaysAzad is all over my social media: #Always pads will destroy your body; Sharing a thread on a survey I did last year because I was THAT pissed off:
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@anasir__
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4 years
I help my khala run her online business and have lots of bizarre interactions with clients, but this one takes the cake:
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@anasir__
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5 years
Got myself a degree today.
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@anasir__
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4 years
Was cleaning my gallery and found this gem from 2017: Abba displaying intense emotions
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@anasir__
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2 years
Always extra, this Eid and every other Eid.
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@anasir__
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4 years
My dad is really surprised that half of his acquaintances in Sahiwal are down with COVID, because he had been told that “thokar say aagay koi corona sharona nahi hai”
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A LUMS student asked where he could interview factory workers for a class, and the most common response on the post was to make up the answers and “fake it”, in case you’re wondering why the education system in Pakistan is going to shit.
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@anasir__
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4 years
I love it so much when women leave their loser, good-for-nothing, dream-killer husbands and start their own little businesses and live their lives.
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@anasir__
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Deepika just posted a #pawrihoraihai meme. Sarr marr jao everyone talking shit about that girl.
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3 years
90% of problems in a desi household are based on “Mujhay gaari chahiye thee, woh leh gaya” and the remaining 10% are based on “Salam kia, uss nay jawaab nahin diya”
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@anasir__
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4 years
Hillary, plz don’t ruin the moment
@HillaryClinton
Hillary Clinton
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Love to see gutsy women flocking together. @GretaThunberg @Malala
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@anasir__
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Girls on this all-women Facebook group are sharing recipes for homemade pepper spray, in case you men are wondering what we talk about in private. Not that you can relate.
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@anasir__
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3 years
People are dying, a plague is raging on, and meanwhile, my mother:
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My mother is currently on the phone with my Nani, discussing my Nani’s outfit for my mangni. To be clear, I have no mangni planned for the foreseeable future.
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@anasir__
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I’ve reached a bit of a stalemate with my @CareemPAK captain
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@anasir__
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My roommate has just discovered incense sticks, so I basically live inside Data Darbar now.
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5 years
Do people in Lahore do anything other than go to weddings and hang out at Mall 1?
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Amma is now trying to get me to agree to get married by making it a competition. “Tum prove kar dena Kay tum sab kuch kar sakti ho”. Brilliant woman.
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5 years
Me, as Amma tries to convince me to get married: Name one married couple that is actually happy. Amma: Woh hain na Nick aur Priyanka.
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@anasir__
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2 years
The harasser/Cheater to born again Muslim pipeline 👌🏼 👌🏼 👌🏼
@AbdullahQureshi
Abdullah Qureshi
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@anasir__
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My family has shown up to the graduation ceremony 2.5 hours early because “saaray goray jaldee aa kay achee seetain mall laytay hain”
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@anasir__
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4 years
I’m more interested in this 37 year old doctor who put “Olevels from KGS” as his main claim to fame in a matrimonial.
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Sanam Maher
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respect the alliteration, respect the struggle.
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@anasir__
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And all the women replying to it saying their husband does the same and they’ve given up and settled for one date night? Sisters? Theek ho Sab? If my husband pulled that shit, he’d be Nihari.
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Amma just asked me not to throw out the empty Ferrero Rocher box because “bank locker mai set rakhnay kay kaam aa jata hai”. 🤦🏽‍♀️
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@anasir__
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Why don’t you start with paying the employees you already have?
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@anasir__
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MY DEAR LORD I AM ABOUT TO GET INTO AN INSTAGRAM FIGHT. Influencer lady, from one of the wealthiest families in Pakistan, 130,000 followers, is posting anti-Vaxxer conspiracy theories. STICK TO YOUR DAMN SABYASACHI OOTDS.
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An entire GENRE of posts on an all-women’s FB group is of (HUNDREDS OF) women writing about not being allowed enough food/botis at their in-laws. As a society, our heads should hang in shame. We should ban marriages until we can get men to treat their wives as literal humans.
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@anasir__
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Reminder that horrible people are still horrible, even if they are dead.
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3 years
Spent a year trying to make the apartment look cute and I’m v proud of myself
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In a family zoom call, I accidentally said “thank you for taking out the time to connect” and that is proof I need a fucking break from my job.
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Someone on a Facebook group asked for ideas for a present for her fiancé and someone suggested “a deck of cards with 52 reasons you love him”. LOL good luck finding 52 reasons for loving a dude.
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@anasir__
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Me: I’m moving to another continent to study Mama: Jaa Simran jaa Me: Y block gol market Jana hai Mama: (Chauda saal kay) Bhai ko zaroor lay jana
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After paying multiple bills + unexpected maintenance costs over the last couple of days, I finally understand why my Abba was always in a bad mood growing up. Yahan Toh cheenknay kay bee sau dirham lagtay hain.
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Lost the most important man in my life, my dada, 4 years ago today. Will always be sad that he never got to see me get married or meet my husband, but as the universe would have it, my husband was the last person who donated blood to him the day before he died.
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Guy marries girl at literally gunpoint. Couple of months later, girl is in love with guy, engaging in flirty banter. Also known as another day on Hum TV.
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3 years
Yeh konsa wannabe fiction writer inn brands kee copywriting kar raha hai aur konsa author apnee book launch pay valimay waala tyyaaar hota hai?
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Me: “Amma I’m really stressed, having a very hard week at work” Mama: “Itna stress mat lou”
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I demand to be greeted like this every time I land in lahore @ family and friends
@ZartashChaudhry
Zartash Chaudhry
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This is so heart warming, pure and full of emotions. Lucky are the people who receive such love.
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@anasir__
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If your “feminism” allows you to blatantly steal other women’s hard work and sell it as your own, then kindly take your performative behanchara bullshit and shove it up your plagiarising butt.
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Women: “Here is a uniquely inappropriate issue I faced because of my gender” Men: “BuT I NEVer FaCeD tHiS ISsue” 👏🏽👏🏽
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@anasir__
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Got married so @palwashaminhas @rizwanpehelwan could take my pictures.
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“Jee beti kee kahin aur baat chal rahi hai” is desi parents’ version of “Sorry, I have a boyfriend”.
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New twitter bio: Well dressed woman with English, who knows nothing
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The husband actually *asked* for a coaster instead of me frantically running after him the minute I see a mug in his hand. My training is complete.
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Angry women will change the world.
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Aunty wants to get a sari delivered from Pakistan to New Jersey, but hopes “shipping is free”. For a small home business. Free international shipping. Fucking Pakistanis. Harr mulk mai hee kameenay hain.
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Love it when someone has a 21 day wedding and on the last day their friends post on Instagram about how they “can’t believe X is married now!!” Agar teen haftay aur pandrah sau insta stories say yakeen nahin aya Toh aur KAISAY aai ga?
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When is KFC starting a breakfast zinger menu? There’s a market for this. Me. I’m the market.
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Kids, I know grad school applications are shitty and hard and stressful, but one great tip is to not send your essays for proofreading to the same person you plagiarised them from.
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It appears that no FIA agent at Lahore airport has ever encountered a single woman travelling to Saudi for work. They are truly baffled and don’t know what to do with me.
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Some people may be shocked to hear this, but you can indeed still marry your cousin without Malala jumping out and grabbing your nikkah nama and running away with it.
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Kya yeh LUX style awards mein best actor kee category mein nominate huay thay?
@ShareToAware
Share To Aware
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Ali Zafar breaks down in tears over sexual harassment allegations #ShareToAware
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@anasir__
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Pet peeve: Men who start referring to you as ‘tum’, the first time they meet you. Itna over kyun? Free kis nay karaya hai?
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Space where we all collectively scream in the middle of the workday.
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Turns out my fiancé’s whole family mooches off his Netflix (including me), so looks like my Very Serious father in law can see that I have been watching Too Hot to Handle.
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Not my husband,who runs screaming when encountered with a lizard, lecturing his soon-to-be-married friend about the concept of male guardianship to protect women in Islam.
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Fuck you if your support and concern for women is only valid until your friend is outed.
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Shaadi shuda Eid, ft. par-dadi aur nani kay gehnay.
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In some twist of fate, after bitching about Islamabad my entire life, I may have accidentally moved here 🙃
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Pakistan mai har bemaari kay sirf chaar ilaaj hain: 1) Drip lagwaa lou 2) Dum karwaa lou 3) Tension kam lou 4) Shaadi kar lou
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@anasir__
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4 years, 2 degrees, and my father still hasn’t learnt how to smile.
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5 years
Honestly, I wish my mother would now force me to wear high necks under my shaadi clothes.
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I’m doing a presentation on elections/dawn leaks/panama leaks for work, and I have made the whole PowerPoint in Calibri, in honour of the most glorious meme-worthy critical juncture in our country’s history.
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Being the eldest automatically means adding my good for nothing siblings’ names to every card, every gift and carrying their deadweight on every occasion.
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Fuck these people
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Struggles of dating in Pakistan: Even months after the wedding, friend still whispers her husband’s name every time she mentions him in a conversation, because she’s too used to him being the secret boyfriend who-must-not-be-named.
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I’m always amazed by 40-something year old men who still have ‘Aitchison’ as a badge of honour in their bios. Bet they still go to reunions wearing their college blazers 🤢
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Last year, I wanted to know if I was crazy/imagining things, or if #Always pads actually cause terrible rashes, itching etc. for others. So I sent out a google survey in Soul Bitches, getting *429* responses in 2 days. 75.9% of the women suffered health issues from Always pads
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In summary: As a person with a bleeding uterus, you aren’t condemned to itchy genitals for the rest of your life. All you have to do is to stop using #Always #TriedAndTested
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Notwithstanding millions of trash men, I’d like to take this opportunity to appreciate the man I have known, loved and respected for over 2 decades, who is forever dependable and never disappoints me: My darzi.
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All those relatives who told my dad not to let me go live abroad many years ago because “larki kharaab ho jai gee” would be so disappointed to know that I live in Party Capital and leave my house like one every three weeks to go to..brunch.
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3 years
Can we please keep a running list of the 4 Pakistani men who have NOT been exposed as harassers because honestly it’s becoming pointless to track all the harassers at this point.
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The kind of mental gymnastics these “liberal” academics are doing to justify support for a bunch of mysogynistic, bigoted men protesting on the streets is truly mind blowing. Let’s be clear: You’ll be amongst the first they will lynch if given the chance.
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Thank god I only have a grand total of like 3 guy friends, so the chances of being friends with a harasser are somewhat lower.
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Going to spend the rest of today sobbing because my darling little @lightermachis graduated from her masters w/ a DISTINCTION and now I understand why parents go around telling the whole muhalla about their kids’ achievements because I’m telling the whole Twitter muhalla too.
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