Filmmaker. Journalist. Media Consultant. Editor Magazines Dawn. Festival Director KaraFilm Festival. Also a hedonist trapped in an intensely political world.
Deeply grateful to
@BankAlfalahPAK
for taking swift action. Regrettable that it came down to this but it’s about time filth-spewing and abusive trolls understand the real-world consequences of their words on social media.
This govt is such a disaster! Can you imagine, they’ve sunk not just Pakistani pilots’ reputations but also of the CAA which judges pilots’ licenses. Now who will take Pakistani flying licenses seriously?! And these guys claim they’re improving Pak repute in the world??
NSFW: Pakistani airline captain affectionalely and politely coaching his first officer on fineness of aircraft landing, forgets PA system is on and all passengers could listen in. On-the-job training is a many-splendoured thing. (Via
@faridalvie
)
‘Kartarpur Corridor was a long-standing demand of the Sikh community. Benazir and Nawaz Sharif both considered it in the 1990s and wanted to move on it, but the establishment did not allow them. It certainly was not Imran Khan’s idea.’ -
@najamsethi
“I have stopped reading papers,”Imran Khan apparently declared on Twitter Spaces last night. “Social media has taken over, I only watch social media.”
And that, friends, perfectly explains everything.
Fayyaz چ:
“I’m sorry if my comments offended women.”
“I’m sorry if my comments offended actresses.”
“I’m sorry if my comments offended journalists.”
“I’m sorry if my comments offended Kashmiris.”
“I’m sorry if my comments offended Hindus.”
Sorry excuse for a human being.
In middle of the political madness,
@BBhuttoZardari
reads out a resolution paying tribute to Bilquis Edhi in the National Assembly, recommending conferring the highest civil award to her posthumously. Unanimously adopted. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Let’s just consider what Shaukat Tarin’s tapped convos tell us:
- PTI knew this was blackmail
- PTI knew it would damage the state
- PTI wanted to put IMF programme at risk
- PTI places Imran Khan’s welfare above state welfare
- These decisions were taken in PTI core committee
A new record. PTI MNA defends lack of progress by claiming that it’s too soon to judge because “even a kid cannot be born in 18 months after marriage!” 😂😂😂😂😂 (clip via
@azharbatla
)
YouTubers and Turkish drama production team??? Those meetings were more important than going to Quetta to meet with Hazara mourners?? Every day brings with it more evidence of the moral bankruptcy of Imran Khan and his government.
Shaukat Tarin says
@MiftahIsmail
should apologise for saying that PTI had tried to block that IMF programme bec the IMF has now approved the programme. In other news, assassin says potential victim should apologise for calling him a potential murderer bec he missed his shot.
Sheikh Rasheed: “If I’m not able to turn Pakistan Railways around and make it profitable, I will tell Imran Khan to give me another ministry.” Sacrifice ho tau aisi! 😂
You know my problem with expats boasting about moving back to Pak? Millions of us chose Pak even when we had a chance to stay/move abroad, during the darkest days, not out of charity but bec it was our *responsibility* to make things better. And bec we consider it home.
IG Sindh, DIG HQ, CCPO Karachi, all 8 DIGs of Karachi, 5 DIGs in interior Sindh - all going on leave. Mebe Dear Leader can get the Tigga Force to come police Sindh now.
BIG BREAKING: Can confirm that the next season of Netflix’s The Crown
@TheCrownNetflix
will also star our very own
@iamhumayunsaeed
. He will be playing surgeon Dr Hasnat Ahmed, Lady Diana’s alleged ‘true love’ who she apparently called “Mr Wonderful.”
Half the govt is performing umrah, some of the govt is enjoying the English countryside, some busy is inducting relatives into jobs. Normally, one would ask who’s running the state. But we all know that would just lead to laughter.
One should not read too much from just two games, and this has nothing to do with the
#IND
team itself, but this is the kind of hubris I at least am glad to see humiliated 1/2
1954. Pakistan PM Mohd Ali Bogra and his wife smoke the peace pipe with the Blackfoot Native American tribe in Montana. Later they presented the chief with a hookah, calling it a peace pipe from Pakistan. From Life magazine, Vol 37 (Via
#BrownHistory
)
Saleem Safi: ‘I’ve known Asad Qaiser for a very long time and he’s so scared of Khan Sb you cannot even imagine… I’m just scared he’ll end up going to jail for IK and I’ll end up having to keep visiting him in jails and bring him food bec IK will forget about him.’
Three days ago, Fawad Chaudhary said PTI didn't know Farah Gogi at all. Today Imran Khan explained who Farah was, declared her innocent, condemned corruption case against her & told the nation she has been working in property sector for 20 years & all her wealth is halal
Inna lillahe wainna alehe rajeoun. Irrfan, at this moment I remember the tone of your voice as you would greet me as ‘Hasan Miyaan!’ more than the hugely talented actor you no doubt were. May you rest in peace.
‘Not only this, I’ve unfriended them on Facebook, unfollowed them on Twitter, Insta and Snapchat, and those hearts I used to draw in my diary with their names? I’ve torn those pages and burnt them on the stove.’
Three weeks ago, this is what Shibli Faraz was saying about the Naeem Bokhari/PTV case. Note the lies: not only did the court say the opposite of what the minister claimed w great arrogance, even the Govt admitted it had not read the Ataul Haq Qasmi judgment *at all*!
#DisInfo
Now that PTI dissidents have come forward in large numbers to announce they will vote against Imran Khan, the funniest are PTI supporters who have suddenly remembered ‘ethics’, ‘morality’ and the ‘spirit of democracy’. O bhaiyyon aur behnon, you reap what you sow.
Zaka Ashraf turning up in Colombo as PCB head after representing sugar mill owners in meeting with Caretaker Punjab CM yesterday is the kind of multi-tasking Pakistan top order is known for.
I am beginning to feel we need a separate homeland for those of us who actually weren’t born yesterday and remember history beyond 2013. 🙄
#BeenThereDoneThat
#ThreeTimes
#FAIL
The PM said this before flying back to his 300-kanal illegally constructed property acquired through a benami transaction, recently regularised by the Supreme Court through the payment of a nominal fine. Friends from the sugar and construction lobbies were by his side.
فیصل واوڈا الیکشن کمیشن میں پیشی کے بعد آئے تو مطیع اللہ جان کے بعد ہم نے بھی کوشش کئ کہ ان سے تاریخ جانیں جس پر انہوں نے امریکی شہریت چھوڑی مگر وہ حسب معمول ٹال کر فراٹے بھرتے ہوئے یہ جا وہ جا۔۔
ویسے گاڑی کیسی ہے ؟