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President @WWF International. Dean Emeritus & Professor @BUPardeeSchool . Former Vice Chancellor @LifeAtLUMS (Pakistan). All tweets personal.
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THAT SMILE!! Ooooh that smile!
That is 200+ Million Pakistanis smiling!
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This is from 1989. 30yrs ago.
This is what I looked like.
And this is what a
#science
show on
#PTV
looked like.
The
@PTVNewsOfficial
show I used to host was called
#IkeesviSaddi
(21st Century). Yes, we were thinking ahead.
(Got a trove of digitized old recordings📺 on
#NewYear
)
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My 10th grade Urdu teacher insisted that this sheyr/ghazal written by Siraj Aurangabadi 270 years ago, was possibly amongst the best ever written. I have now listened to it for 40+ yrs; am just beginning to understand what he meant; why it just may be so.
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Before July 5 ends, take two minutes to watch this clip of who
#ZiaulHaq
really was. A deeply chilling reminder of just how much of history we never really learn from, even when we obsess with remembering its every little detail.
Watch. And weep.
(Full: )
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Happy 2020 everyone.
Here is looking back.
30 years ago.
This is from 1989.
This is what I looked like.
And this is what a
#science
show on
#PTV
📺 looked like.
The show I used to host was called
#IkeesviSaddi
(21st Century). Yes, we were thinking ahead.
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Me at 21. Well, not exactly, but close enough. Just a little more than 21.
This is what I looked like.
And this is what a
#science
show on
#PTV
looked like.
The show I used to host was called
#IkeesviSaddi
(21st Century). Yes, we were thinking ahead.
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The ability to always find faults with others is not intellect. Its not even a skill. It’s a disease.
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#Kashmir
: Stark contrast on the two sides of the LOC tells all.
In GB, a vibrant election, media and national leaders active & present. Population engaged.
Meanwhile, Srinagar remains a prison, politicians imprisoned, nation leaders barred, media blocked. Population subjugated.
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With
@MoeedNj
on
@HardTalkPk
, I gave this practical suggestion for all TV anchors
آج، اسی وقت، ٹی ایل پی کو مذہبی جماعت کہنا بند کریں
اگر یہ مذہبی ہیں، تو باقی جماعتیں کیا ہیں؟ کیا وہ غیر مذہبی ہیں؟
میں نہیں تيار کہ غنڈوں کو اپنے دین کا ترجمان بنا دوں
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🎼To be 24yrs old and have
#FaridaKhannum
sing impromptu & without any accompaniment on your request (having not sung on TV for 6yrs!) - encircled by
#UstadSalamatAliKhan
+
#NaziaHassan
+
#ZohaibHassan
. THAT was memorable!
From
#PTV
show
#MehmaniKhasoosi
I used to host in 1990.
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آج کا دن ایک افسوسناک دن ہے-
آج کسی پاکستانی کو خوش ہونے کا حق نہیں۔
شرمندگی، اور صرف شرمندگی۔
جو ہوا، وہ ہونا تھا،
لیکن ایسے نہیں ہونا چاہئے تھا۔
شرمندگی، اور صرف شرمندگی۔
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ملا کو سیاست کی ضرورت ہے وگرنہ
اسلام کو ہر بات سے خطرہ نہیں ہوتا
Mulla ko siyasat ki zarorat hai vagarna
Islam ko her baat se khatra nahiN hota
#Urdu
#Poetry
#SaturdaySher
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#MySaturdaySong
🎼
To be 24yrs old and have
#FaridaKhannum
sing impromptu, without any accompaniment, on your request (having not sung on TV for 6yrs!) - encircled by
#UstadSalamatAliKhan
+
#NaziaHassan
+
#ZohaibHassan
.
From
#PTV
show I used to host, 1990.
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Ten people to stay away from:
1. The super-patriot
2. The self-righteous
3. The unforgiving
4. The perpetually angry
5. The all-knowing
6. The blind follower
7. The proudly cynical
8. The incurious
9. The zealot
10. The unkind
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Honored. Humbled. And, unusually, at a total loss of words!
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#Imagine
:
📞Telephone + internet cut off or severely restricted
📺Media not allowed to enter or report
💣Soldiers everywhere; 1 per every 8 citizens
🕌Curfew imposed; even on religious festival
🎙Politicians imprisoned
👍🏼Government says, “All izz well”
#ImagineKashmir
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This is
#NYC
New York city, today.
Rainfall rate already 1-2 inches per hour. And its just beginning.
#ClimateChange
is real.
#ClimateChange
is everywhere.
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My 10th grade Urdu teacher insisted that this sheyr (entire ghazal), written by Siraj Aurangabadi, now around 270 years ago, was possibly amongst the best ever written. I have now listened to it for 40 years; am just beginning to understand what he meant; why it just may be so.
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The ability to always find faults with others is not intellect. Its not even a skill. It’s a disease.
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مشکل وقت میں ملک سے محت دکھانے کے بہت طریقے ہیں ۔ ایمانداری سے کام، ٹیکس ادایگی، کسی ہموطن کی مدد ۔ لیکن twitter یا TV پربیٹھ کر بڑکیں لگانا، بونگیاں مارنا، اِس سے واحیات طریقہ کوئ نھیں۔ اگر جاننا چاھتے ہیں آپ کی بڑکیں کیسی لگتی ہیں تو دوسرے ملک کی بڑکیں سن لیں،بلکل ویسی لگتی ہیں
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#Plant4Pakistan
🌳🇵🇰 an impressive initiative even beyond many imp benefits of trees.
1/ Brings a worthy COMMON CAUSE to a disturbingly divided society.
2/ Empowers INDIVIDUAL ACTION by anyone, anywhere.
3/ Scale & speed of launch shows impressive committment and prior PLANNING.
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Before July 5 ends, take two minutes to watch this clip. A deeply chilling reminder of just how much of history we never learn from, even when we obsess with remembering its every little detail. Watch. Weep.
(Full: )
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Bursting with pride.
Our youngest, Eesa, graduated from high school today. Next stop, university!
May he prosper, may he succeed. But above all else, may the goodness in his heart always be the light that brightens his path.
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"The activist is not one who says the river is dirty. The activist is one who cleans up the river." - Ross Perot
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On
@BBCurdu
#Sairbeen
on
#PakistanElection2024
& loss of
#Trust
in State
اگلی حکومت کا سب سے ب��ا چیلنج معیشت نہیں، اعتماد کا ٹوٹنا ہے
اعتماد کا ٹوٹنا دل کہ ٹوٹنے کی طرح ہوتا ہے۔ ٹوٹ جائے تو جوڑنا بہت مشکل ہو جاتا ہے
Last 20secs were not in the show, but were in my recording
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Full moon. From the International Space Station - NASA photo
اِس چاند پر شعر کہنا واجب ہے
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Meanwhile, in
#Jakarta
Best wishes to the 359 strong
#Pakistan
contingent at
#AsianGames2018
that will be participating in 35 sports. Pakistan has participated in 16
#AsianGames
, winning a total 200 medals, including 44 golds; 8 of these in
#hockey
.
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Bursting with pride.
My daughter, Amineh, graduated from high school today. Next stop, university!
An uplifting ceremony
@OneABRHS
amidst hopes of the young & affections of their families. The most meaningful measure of our lives are the milestones in the lives of those we love.
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اکانومک ڈیفالٹ ہو یا نہ ہو، 2023 کی خبر یہ ہے کہ پاکستان کا سیاسی ڈیفالٹ ہو چکا ہے
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#Pakistan
is not just an idea we borrowed from our parents.
It is a responsibility we owe to our children.
#KhayalRakhna
🇵🇰
پاکستان زنداباد 💚
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Glad that
#ImranKhan
started speech with a focus on
#HumanDevelopment
and quoting from
#pkNHDR
by
@UNDP_Pakistan
for which I had the privilege to be Lead Author. A focus on basic HD -
#health
#wealth
#knowledge
- would be recipe for real change.
More here:
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The ability to always find faults with others is not intellect. Its not even a skill. Its a disease.
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Some in my generation think that stage energy and vibrant presence & performance was invented with us. O' how wrong we are!
اے ناز حسن ءِ والا ، دل منی برتگ لال ءَ
- فیز محمد فیزوک
No one, I think, has yet matched
#FaizBaluch
(Faizuk) in stage presence or energy (this from 1971):
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دیکھو، اور رو۔
تاریخ سے سیکھنے کی اوقات ہو نہ ہو، اُس پر شرمندہ تو ہوا جا سکتا ہے!
جھوٹ اِس ڈھٹائی سے بولنا کہ خود اس کے سچ ہونے کا یقین ہو جائے سوشل میڈیا سے بہت پہلے کی ایجاد ہے۔
نہ دل بدلا نہ دل کے کام بدلے۔
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#NaziaHassan
would be 55 today. 30 yrs ago, she was a guest on my
#PTV
show Mehman-e-Khasoosi (with
#FaridaKhanum
,
#UstadSalamatAliKhan
and
#FarooqQaiser
(
#UncleSargam
).
Watch this impromptu performance. No prep. No music (except
#Zoheb
finger-drumming).
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کوئی ہے جو سن رہا ہے؟
کھودنا بند کرو۔
خدا کا واسطہ ہے، کھودنا بند کرو!
اگر گہرے گڑھے میں پھنس ہی گئے ہو
تو سب سے پہلی اور سب سے اہم گزارش یہ ہے کہ کھودنا بند کرو۔
یار، خدا کا واسطہ ہے، کھودنا بند کرو!
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خدا کا واسطة ہے، ٹویٹر کو سیریسلی نہ لیں
ٹویٹر پر مجھ کو بھی سیریسلی نہ لیں
There are 225M Pakistanis. Only 1.5% of them (~3.4M) are on
@Twitter
. And each one of us thinks we represent all Pakistan. Twitter is Pakistan's new drawing room.
Full podcat here:
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Today is
#SnowLeopardDay
🐾🐆.
This most majestic
#Pakistani
is endangered. Only 200-400 of Pakistan’s most majestic species left. Maybe less 🐾🐆.
Don’t mess with its habitat. Don’t mess with Pakistan🇵🇰.
Think conversation this
#InternationalSnowLeopardDay
🐾🐆.
@WWFPak
@WWF
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اگر گہرے گڑھے میں پھنس ہی گئے ہو
تو سب سے پہلی اور سب سے اہم گزارش یہ ہے کہ کھودنا بند کرو۔
یار، خدا کا واسطہ ہے، کھودنا بند کرو!
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🎼To be 24yrs old and have
#FaridaKhannum
sing impromptu on your request (having not sung on TV for 6yrs!) - encircled by
#UstadSalamatAliKhan
+
#NaziaHassan
+
#ZohaibHassan
. THAT was memorable!
From
#PTV
show
#MehmaniKhasoosi
I used to host in 1990.
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Humbled and honoured to be recognized by my country and awarded
#HilaliImtiaz
. Grateful that my mother was able to receive it for me.
Our parents hold our hands and guide us through the journey of life; every day and always. Thank you, Ammi. Thank you, Pakistan.
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Mei sari dunya ghoom aya
ye trz nahN, taur nahN
Lhr jahaN me aur nahN
میں ساری دنیا گھوم آیا
یہ طرز نھیں یہ طور نھیں
لاھور جھاں میں اور نھیں
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This is not lip-sync; not karaoke; this is art!
The artist is
#IbrahimCaba
from NYC (doing full justice to
#AzizMian
’s qawalli ‘Nabi Nabi’).
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November 16, 1988 - 32 years ago today - Pakistan elects
#BenazirBhutto
, then 35, first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan & first elected woman to lead a Muslim country.
To commemorate, take a listen to her first message to the country and her signing roster in National Assembly.
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اگر گہرے گڑھے میں پھنس ہی گئے ہو
تو سب سے پہلی اور سب سے اہم گزارش یہ ہے کہ کھودنا بند کرو۔
یار، خدا کا واسطہ ہے، کھودنا بند کرو!
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The latest storm-in-a-teacup about who said what in
#ImranKhan
-
#Pompeo
call is comical but also pertinent. A good metaphor for how 🇺🇸🇵🇰 relations have ALWAYS been:
What USA believes it has said, Pakistan does not believe it has heard. And, vice versa.
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Congratulations
@Ali_A_Zaidi
.
33 year old, Pakistan-born, Ali Zaidi to be named key climate policy advisor on Biden team, deputy to
@GinaNRDC
on domestic US climate policy.
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Talent always shines through.
And usually has fun on the way.
The chota ustad and the table tabla kid are clearly stars. But so is the harmonium walla badshah.
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No Pakistani, no matter who, no matter where, no matter when, no matter why, should ever be made to disappear. Never.
@MJibranNasir
has always stood by that principle. So must we all. Not just for his sake, but for our own.
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The
#BUconvocation
@BUPardeeSchool
is always a special day for me.
Even more special when my own daughter is also graduating.
Especially special still when I get to surprise her, as she walks on stage, by joining in presenting her the degree.
Congratulations Amineh!
#BU2023
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10 people to stay away from:
1-The super-patriot
2-The self-righteous
3-The unforgiving
4-The always angry
5-The all-knowing
6-The blind follower
7-The proudly cynical
8-The incurious
9-The zealot
10-The unkind
Life without them may be lonely, but is vastly more fulfilling.
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خدا کا واسطہ ہے، ایک دوسرے کو غدار کہنا بند کرو!
جب کوئی بھی پاکستانی کسی بھی پاکستانی کو کسی بھی وجہ سے غدار کہے، تو ہر پاکستانی کا سر شرم سے ، ندامت سے، جھک جانا چاہئے۔
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did you know
#CheGuevara
visted
#Pakistan
in 1959?
Here is
#Che
with
#AyubKhan
& the erudite
#ManzurQadir
, then 🇵🇰’s Foreign Minister.
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Dr.
#AbdusSalam
hypothesizing about nature's "principle of nothingness". In
#Punjabi
.
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A simple fact that no government in Pakistan has ever figured out:
Once you are in government your commitment to
#accountability
and to fighting
#corruption
is measured not by how you hold your opponents accountable, but by how accountable and non-corrupt your own government is.
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جو پڑھ نہی سکتا، وہ اَنپڑھ
جو پڑھ سکتا ہے اور نہیں پڑھتا، وہ جاہل
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Is this what
#isolation
looks like?
If not, its certainly its certainly just a few step away from isolation. No?
#MBS
at
#G20Summit
.
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It is amazing that we invoke the 1970 elections so often (including as the ‘model’ election) and how little we remember its results.
House Seats=300
#AwamiLeague
=160
#PPP
=81
Rest=59
#Mujib
+party=40% vote
#Bhutto
+party+20% vote
The rest, of course, is history.
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A
#FATAmerger
, if passed, will be one of the single most important steps taken in the governance history of
#Pakistan
. The denial of citizenship to
#FATA
has been a most tragic shame that has had the most tragic consequences. It is time to act now. It has been time for 70 years!
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No. There is nothing funny about anything that has been happening in Senate elections in Pakistan. Nothing.
The joke, if there was one, was on Pakistan. May all who have turned Pakistan into a joke, rot.
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Be afraid.
Be very afraid.
Of Pakistanis who think they are
more Pakistani
than all other Pakistanis.
Scary Super-Patriots are everywhere.
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Ten people to stay away from:
1. The super-patriot
2. The self-righteous
3. The unforgiving
4. The perpetually angry
5. The all-knowing
6. The blind follower
7. The proudly cynical
8. The incurious
9. The pompous snob
10. The unkind
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Today there is no more poignant, or pathetic, symbol of what is deeply rotten in Pakistan than
#RaoAnwar
.
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Here is what happens when you lose your grip of
#quality
of
#education
اعلی تعلیم اگر معیاری نہ رہے تو اعلی بھی نھیں رھتی!
پاکستان میں مسلہ یہ نہیں کے
ڈگری ملنے سے نوکری نہیں ملتی
مسلہ یہ ہے کے ڈگری ملنے سے تعلیم نہیں ملتی
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All I want to do right now is to get past 2020.
We'll think about 2021 when we get there.
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Not just tolerating but celebrating joys of all.
#Canada
🇨🇦 PM
#Trudeau
wears
#Eid
🌙 socks & walks with his family in
#PrideToronto
🏳️🌈 parade
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#ASHAMED
As a Pakistani,a Muslim,a human being, I hang my head in shame. Again
Our bigotry will not diminish
@AtifRMian
. But it stabs another blow on ethos of Pakistan;an insult to Prophetﷺ in whose name this injustice is done.
May Allah forgive us all. I do not think He will.
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إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
Been in shock on
#PIACrash
.
Personified for me in the now confirmed death of
#KhalidSherdil
. From the moment he first reached out to me, I saw in him a bureaucrat from another age: urbane, intellectually alive, full of ideas, a doer.
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کالے بادل، چڑھتی ندیا، ڈوبتی بستی، گھائِل لوگ
پھر بھی سپنے دیکھ رہے ہیں، بھولے، سادہ، جاہل لوگ
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آج کا دن ایک افسوسناک دن ہے-
آج کسی پاکستانی کو خوش ہونے کا حق نہیں۔
شرمندگی، اور صرف شرمندگی۔
کیا ہونا چاہئے تھا، کیا نہیں ہونا چاہئے تھا،
لیکن ایسے نہیں ہونا چاہئے تھا۔
شرمندگی، اور صرف شرمندگی۔
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👑
Once upon a time
there was a king.
And then, the king
was king no more.
Let every king,
everywhere,
remember this.
That this is the story
of every king.
Everywhere. And always.
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On my way to work, today.
Give way to pedestrians. Always.
And, with a smile.
🦆🦢🦆🦢🦆🦢🦆🦢🦆🦢🦆🦢🦆
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On
@Newswise_Dawn
with @
@arifanoor72
on
#MoonSighting
@FawadChaudry
نے جو کیا وہ بہت پہلے ہو جانا چاھیئے تھا
اب دیکھنا یہ ہے کہcabinet میں کتناجگرا ہے
ٓاپ افطاری اور سحری اب سورج دیکھ کر نہیں کرتے
کبھی کرتے تھے۔ عید چاند دیکھ کر کیوں کریں؟
خدا نے عقل دی، علم دیا،استعمال کریں
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I wonder what is worse: Imposition of
#MartialLaw
or widespread questions on electoral
#Legitimacy
& belief of
#RiggedElections
?
#MartialLaw
can, in fact, & ironically, nurture a desire for democracy. Questions on
#ElectionLegitimacy
erode trust in the idea of democracy itself.
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From my archive.
My oldest photo with
#ImranKhan
(yes, I was thin once!)
I think this was during the 1982-3 tours by either India or Australia. I was an FSc student but also covering Test cricket🏏 for
#TheMuslim
(his first home series as captain, my first as sports reporter)🤓.
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