A notorious gangster from Pakistan’s lawless riverine areas is a viral social media sensation. My piece for @AFP on Pakistan's TikTok bandits.

Me after staying up another night to follow war updates in 2025

To my Ahmadi brothers and sisters: you make sacrifices that no one should have to make. To you, who carry faith under threat of extermination: Eid Mubarak. In the truest sense of the word and spirit of the day.

It’s a game of nerves now and demands a leadership response. Kinetics are always, if not mostly framed into a psychological jukebox. India for sure took the TTP and BLA problems of Pakistan into consideration before it attacked. But more importantly, Pakistan’s political

Dear Civil Society Friends and Media, I am writing with deep concern about my sister, who is under immense psychological pressure in prison. Her health has deteriorated dramatically, and she has been sick for the past three days without access to proper medical care. Last

Can @BBhuttoZardari explain why the PPP Govt is so compromised and weak in front of Agencies that it cant even allow political prisoners & dissenters visitation rights from family and friends. BYC leader @SammiBaluch is not an under-trial prisoner she has only been detained under

“The Pakistani authorities’ relentless crackdown on Baloch activists over the last week and continued detention of several protesters and Baloch activists, including Mahrang Baloch, Sammi Deen Baloch, and Bebarg Zehri, speaks of a systematic attack on the rights of Baloch

Equating peaceful protesters with armed insurgents, labelling an entire people 'terrorist sympathisers' based on ethnicity, excusing extrajudicial violence because 'they must have done 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨'--this is precisely how 'decent people' allow atrocities to happen.

To believe in the rights of a province to water is not anti-Pakistani. It is pro-Pakistani. I believe in a united federation of provinces (Pakistan) in which all stakeholders are heard. Corporate farming hurts Punjabi farmers too. It is in nature an unpatriotic project

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It is estimated that between 80,000 to 100,000 Pakistanis try to escape the country in search for better economic opportunities abroad each year. It is a journey full of risk and mortal danger, facilitated by ruthless operators out to exploit the desperate for profit. Read

Extremism unbound

An excellent and much needed article:

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

In our article we asked former and current tawaifs from Heera Mandi what they thought about the Netflix series based on the historic neighbourhood. Text by myself, @Kaneezfatima and @asma_hafizz. https://t.co/x8c0Ip6lsW

The Netflix hit "Heeramandi" depicts the plush and powerful lives of courtesans in the 1940s, but there is little glamour for modern Pakistani sex workers in the faded red-light district where the series is set. Read our cross-border report here: https://t.co/EGwKWDEqmC

A deepfake video of Pakistan's ex-first lady Bushra Bibi in which she appears to talk about a kiss with a man has attracted tens of thousands of views online Bibi's face was superimposed on the clip, which showed a different woman speaking years ago https://t.co/N2YQfaUupn

In a society where many men need a reason to demean their partners - some thought it would be a great idea to make this ad. Sick that even in 2024 fairness creams are being sold in Pakistan AND endorsing the idea of comparing women on the basis of their complexion. #Colorism

#Pakistan: Fractious Pakistan poll fertile ground for disinformation, FOCUS @JoeStenson and @XenebRimal https://t.co/gSf3M9sKPM