Amal Khan
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Op-ed editor@ Arab News Pakistan. Co-founder & Creative Director at @LamaRetail - I enjoy B-grade post apocalyptic thrillers
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What a bone-breaking day for us all. Minutes after wrapping up, I stepped into a little mart to get some milk on my way home. The sleepy shopkeeper told me, "I don't support anyone but today my heart is aching for this country."
#WATCH
: After
#ImranKhan
's removal as
#Pakistan
prime minister in a no-trust vote, process to elect a new PM begins now. But the country will remain in political turmoil as it enters early election season in coming months.
Find out more from
@amalkhan
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Why did the plane take off? What insanity is this? Planes don't take off if there's an extra suitcase on board. Men clung to its wings. Real people rained from the sky. How is this justifiable? Who will answer for this and in what court. How is everybody not screaming in anger
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An incredibly talented artist who can barely make ends meet has painted this life sized portrait of Imran Khan. He paints on his rooftop and sells his paintings by the side of the road near Burki. If anybody is interested pls msg me. He's selling it for 50k. It's 6 ft high.
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Biggest revelation of today: Ali Sadpara was not John Snorri's fellow expedition partner. He was there as his guide/ high-altitude porter, because he didn't get sponsorship to summit. The country's most celebrated mountaineer didn't get a sponsor in his own country.
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Saw photos of an elaborate Lahore tea party where serving staff was made to wear masks and gloves but the guests weren’t— wtf is that supposed to mean/ show? Dear Pakistani rich folks: A global pandemic does not discriminate, and your parties, weddings etc are reckless & selfish.
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Today I mistakenly expressed my condolences while speaking to a friend of Ali Sadpara. Gently he corrected me. "You know, Ali is famous for making ice igloos with his ice pick," he said. "He can make them anywhere, on any mountain." This is a true, rational hope. Let's hope
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My father, as old as Pakistan, both born in 1947. Here he was, walking to the poll this morning to vote. Everything is a sham except for the bizarre faith of people like him.
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No matter what you're doing, take a minute to send prayers for warmth, air and life to the men on K2 as night falls. May they live. May they return. And if they are not to return, may their pain be small-- so small compared to the enormity of the dreams they chased.
#K2winter
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This guy just turned ONE and you know it's love when a woman who hasn't turned an oven on in 15 years bakes cake. Sprinkles is all the decoration you get, kid. Be grateful I didn't order you one of those terrible fondant towers. And didn't put you in a bow tie. Love, Amma
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There are hundreds of Pakistanis on Twitter right now debating whether one of the passengers— a model— onboard PK8303 will make it to ‘janat.’ There are ppl retweeting and liking this nonsense. This is the level of brain we are engaging with. Twitter is the worst place on earth
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Ali Sadpara, John Snorri and JP Mohr are officially missing, according to the Alpine Club. Rescue operation has been launched with army helicopters. I met Sadpara's son in Skardu bazaar some years ago. It is a family of heroes. Praying for a miracle.
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🧵 Today is my little brother's 34th birthday. He was "kind of diagnosed" with low-functioning regressive autism at age 4, back when nobody knew what autism was. My parents pooled in all their savings and took him around the world, from Johns Hopkins to everywhere else
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When is it going to be illegal to carry around dehydrated little infants, fatally close to heat stroke as begging accessories at traffic lights? It's bloody 41 degrees out here. Not one person of compassion who can put an end to this?
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By tomorrow, Pakistan will have overtaken China in total number of coronavirus cases— a country with a population almost 5 times larger than ours. A sad milestone as we speed ahead with roughly 4K cases now being reported daily amid a truly astonishing lack of leadership
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The murder of Noor Mukadam unpacks a layered mess: gender-based violence, state complicity, mental illness, elite privilege, drug abuse, parenting, entitlement. And there's more to come when the legal battles begin. Somehow this case took me back to a 2014 story we covered.
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Guys, the painting is SOLD! My goodness. It's incredible how much talent is wasting when all it needs is a little platform like Twitter. You can whatsapp the artist Shoukat Ali on 0300 8181199 for commissions. Don't try to rip him off or I'll come after you. I'm his manager now
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Whether or not you support PTI, the crackdown on that party's supporters, their family members, their friends-- this is the intimidation long-game. These are stories that will be passed down through generations. These deep fear tactics must be condemned no matter who you support
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Had to take GT road from Lahore to Isb today and happy to report everything still looks almost exactly the way it did in 1999. No restrooms I can see. Except there's a giant Khaadi at the Jhelum toll in case you need to urgently pick up a kurta while holding pee in for 400 km
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My husband, a bona fide extrovert and workaholic, is getting hit hard by lockdown. He is de-icing the fridge, an event that requires one to do nothing. Instead he is sitting next to it and wondering loudly why ice won’t melt faster. I might just push him out of isolation myself.
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Who do you call in Lahore if you've got a snake infestation around your neighborhood? DHA phase 8 is currently a snake pit (pls hold the politics puns guys, hold the puns). Video taken right across the house an hour ago. Help.
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The only Israel-Palestine news coverage worth its mettle right now is
#AlJazeera
-- everybody else is shameful. It is unconscionable.
@nytimes
here's looking at you. Shameful.
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A 🧵 on loss: Today, I listened to a man who had just lost his beautiful wife. He had to fly her home to be buried, and he said that after travelling the world together with her, the most painful moment of his entire life was picking the love of his life up from the cargo section
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Pakistani culture— similar to Italian culture of meeting, mingling, taking offence if not hugged w brute force, joint families, over-affectionate gestures, puppis from aunties etc— is a virus playground. Keep hands to yourself! It’s ok if Aunty Farkhanda thinks you’re a khabees
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From Lahore's Mall Road to Gulberg to down Ferozepur Road past Chungi Amar Sidhu station, I'd say about 90% of all markets and shops are open. No big strike I can see here frankly..
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Can Pakistanis stop equating our country’s cultural/ complexion complexes with the black experience in America? Yes the standards of beauty here are cruel, colonial & discriminatory, but the black rights movement is addressing an entirely different kind of oppression. Pls stop
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This article on Ali Sadpara is the most beautiful and heartbreaking piece I think I have ever read. The very last line has just broken me. I won't give it away. Please read this:
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Does everybody listen to their own whatsapp voice notes right after sending them.... and then nod in agreement
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As of now we're still searching for a doctor who can help us figure out why he won't open his mouth. We live in Lahore and will be grateful for any leads. We are slowly reintroducing the ziapine. If you've read this far, say a small prayer for my brother today, on his birthday.
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I told a Palestinian friend how helpless & heartbroken I felt every moment. He replied with a verse from 'An-Nisa: 'And slacken not in following up the enemy: If ye are suffering hardships, they are suffering similar hardships; but ye have Hope from Allah, while they have none.'
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I find it somewhat ridiculous that as a 34 year old woman in this country, I cannot even get a blood test done without a dude in PPE asking me what my “husband or father name” is.
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1/2 - Just completed my Umrah, and reflecting. I don't know a lot of religion but here is what I see. One half of Umrah is tawaf around God's house and the other half is reliving the journey of a desperate mother. Both have equivalence in your pilgrimage.
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If everybody wears a mask, rate of transmission is just 1.5%...why isn’t it now a fineable offence to not wear mask in public? Why no awareness campaigns about etiquettes of hygienically handling a mask? Why are Pakistanis wearing masks on their upper lips and not on their noses?
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Terrifying news. How many times the people on board flight PK-8303 must have reconsidered travelling by air today. In masks & gloves, their safety concerns must be different today. It’s almost Eid. It’s just an hour’s ride- a route so many of us have taken dozens of times
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My 74 year old dad stuck at Sukheki on his way home to Lahore and is making arrangements to sleep in his car. All entrances to the city are blocked. Does anyone have any real updates on how long this nightmare will last? Children, old people, sick people stuck
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I don't know what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting I'd be carrying a truck on my chest all day reading your beautiful prayers and wishes. Thank you. Through this post, we just had a consult with an amazing psychiatrist based out of the US who has some answers for us.
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I told Ami today was a tough day. An hour later, she sent me these roses from her garden and a text message. “Fully sterilised roses for you. Ab boothi theek kero aur naha lo.” Every time we told her we were sad growing up, she’d send us off to take a shower. Ami nahi nahana bhai
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IK's arrogant refusal to sit in Parliament when in power and in opposition was the beginning of this mess. Democratic arguments with rivals you despise, even at personal levels, is the profound beauty of democracy. You can't just opt out cause you're too clean for the system.
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Hey hey
#NewZealandCricket
: These 9 white American women motorcyclists have just reached Islamabad after touring 500km up north in Pakistan over 2 weeks. No security entourage, no 'clean' routes, no MI.
Really, boys.
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I’m sorry but did anyone else catch the “NAB humare saath ha...uhhh... NAB azaad hai azaad hai” moment?
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59 people died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours in Pakistan. A day ago, it was 42. You do the math.
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Disagree with her politics or views or etiquette but what's happening to Khadija Shah is outrageous. The woman is an impassioned supporter & there's no evidence of a crime. If you're gloating when you see people punished without true cause, your heart has a lot of healing to do.
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For those who don't know, hundreds of thousands of Hazaras live in enclaves that are protected with barbed wire & manned by paramilitary personnel. That is how they exist, how they live, marry, dream, have children, die. Their protests go far beyond the execution of the miners
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I learned today that all this time we prayed, ached, wondered, Sadpara's wife, Fatima, did not know for certain Ali was missing. She was asking: 'why hasn't he called me.' She was partly told yesterday the team was "stuck" on the mountain and has spent every moment since weeping.
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Last year in Peshawar, Faqeer Lala was disfigured with acid after he stopped two men from harassing women in his rickshaw. All he was doing, was the right thing. My friend has just started a fund for the surgeries he needs. Pls read his story & donate:
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That Hazara families won't bury their dead is not blackmail, Mr. Prime Minister, it is a method of non-violent pressure. That it is time-sensitive makes it akin to hunger strikes led by Mandela, by Gandhi and by many revolutionary figures in history. It appeals only to your heart
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I went to Lahore’s congested inner city today to report on the coronavirus lockdowns for Arab News. Have repeatedly said that outside of the posher areas, no social distancing exists. Vendors out selling food, toys, even women’s underwear. Watch the video
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My husband ran 19 km today. His personal way of expressing solidarity with covid-19 frontline workers. I just ate 3/4 of a large pizza by myself. It is clear we are a pair made in heaven.
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Four days ago, while tweeting about Pakistani women having to give names of their male family members on every form, I was in labour. The next morning, I had a son. And God gave me a wink and my divine retribution on his very first form. Don’t you boys forget it (send prayers) ❤️
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Who’d have thought
@fawadchaudhry
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My husband is colour-blind and I asked him to please arrange really light pistachio green curtains for our kid’s nursery over video chat with his vendors while I was in a class. Well, our baby is going to have Dubai grade golden curtains in his room now. Tough luck, kid.
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Our cook Azam Chacha, overweight and diabetic, has walked 25km to Shahdara and is stuck there. Says he can hear gunfire, roads completely jammed so he can't move forward anymore. Please say a prayer, and if anyone can offer the man some shelter at Shahdara pls reach out 🙏🏻
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The Crown season 4: Near-teenage girl married to eligible man with means, zero care for compatibility, lives in big house, does nothing all day, has children as duty, owns killer wardrobe. Basically: Chiniotis.
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It is possible to feel grief and pain for BOTH the hundreds killed in the Greece boat disaster and the 5 people inside the Titanic sub. It's possible to imagine their pain & panic at a human level. Though there's A LOT of politics to discuss here, the moment for that is not now.
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They tell us things like: "Essa is just a baby in an adult's body." "Essa has the mind of a 1 year old." But how do they explain his tears when I have confided in him my heartbreaks? Or his hand running over my face when I'm sad? They know nothing about my brother's heart.
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A few of
@ArtShoukat
's other paintings and portraits-- he's not too active on Twitter but voice note him on whatsapp. Somebody make this man famous. He's too damn good to be selling paintings by the roadside, unable to provide for his family. His whatsapp is: 0300 8181199
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2/2 - The Saee is also a compulsory act of Hajj. So every Muslim man and woman must re-enact, feel the pain and walk in the footsteps of a woman to complete their religion. As you walk, and run like she did, the holy Kaaba is right by your side. Think. Just think.
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Hey
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sir, not sure if you got the Whatsapp forward yet sir, but how's about a quick condemnation of the Minar-e-Pakistan mob to show the 110 million women of your country that when they're stripped & assaulted in your 2nd largest city, it makes your to-do list
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Penne is the lowest form of pasta. A basic bro, penne is the desi rishta from Canada working at E&Y everyone orders but one you know will never soak up the sauce you bring to the table. In a world of tagliatelle, spaghetti, pici..stop eating penne in pools of white sauce, Lahore
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I might have told them to get super busy, but it was as if Atif had waited his whole life to shut that door in my face. Our sale ends tonight ♥️
@LamaRetail
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When I said goodbye to him that year before my departure for Lahore, he whispered to me: “I will always remember you in your youth, walking beside me in this desert.” I had no idea what this meant, but as the years pass on, I think about it more and more.
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He's at it again. How is this a painting and not a photograph of Imran Khan? Incredible talent.
@ArtShoukat
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Why is shaming people becoming so fashionable? Shaming them for celebrating Eid, for getting on a plane, for being able to afford parmesan in a pandemic. As though it’s somehow brave and gutsy to dig out the worst possible intention of anybody’s behaviour. Chill out, human race.
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I used to make fun of my father when I was younger because he would wear this waist pack whenever we travelled. He gifted me many. I told him I wouldn't be caught DEAD wearing one. Well, here I am at 34 in an airport with a fanny pack on. And lemme tell ya, it's a game changer.
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Always secretly judged people with show-off janamaz photos but i wear a fanny pack now so I don't judge nobody. Eid Mubarik 🌙 Praying for Palestine, Kashmir, Yemen, Syria, India. Praying for my country and my home, and every child in the world who is not safe.
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I am forced to think that the men & women exploiting the TLP situation today have either genuinely limited knowledge of religion or are dishonourable and evil to the core of their beings, ripping Pakistan apart for the sake of their politics.
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How and with what hashtag do I demand justice for it all? So I think. We must act fast. We must teach our children better. We must let them know that goodness is objective. That God is love. That we have an entire history to erase. And then, maybe we'll see
#JusticeForNoor
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We see our mothers, our friends. We see the women in our workplaces, oppressed and humiliated. We see them suffer abuse, mental and physical. We see our little girls molested. We see our aunts slapped around. We see their rights & properties stolen.
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I see anger in every woman's post. It's rage piled on-- centuries' worth. We've all read the history of women, and we know you can summarise it in a word: oppress. By ideas, by izzat, by books, by the mullahs, by the party boys, by porn, by upbringing, by politics, by culture
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It’s my brother in law
@MeurerD
’s birthday, first white boy in the fam, breaking that desi glass ceiling, wooing my baby boomer parents with his logical brain, his blond hair, his super sharp business skills & his emails to my dad that now begin with AoA. Happy birthday, Danny ❤️
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Some of my mother's best friends are Ahmadis, and I have always just known them as my khalas. They brought us up, they taught us all the best life lessons, and they are a huge part of me. I will always fight the hypocrites who would take away their humanity for a label
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Taliban will now control some of the world's most sophisticated military weapons & equipment, pumped in by the US to arm Afghan forces for over a decade. Humvees, thermal gun scopes, armoured vehicles. Does history repeat itself anywhere as literally as it does in Afghanistan.
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Genius observation from
@mehreenzahra
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The NAB and Pak embassy in UK has cost Pakistan nearly $29 million in damages which includes $4,758 interest per day. That's Rs8 lakh PER DAY because of failure to address the problem. We could have challenged this deduction in court but Pak High Commission MISSED the deadline.
Panama Papers exposed our ruling elites corruption & money laundering earlier. Now Broadsheet revelations have again exposed the massive scale of our ruling elites corruption & money laundering. These elites cannot hide behind "victimisation" card on these int revelations.
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Been a Mac user for 10 years and still don't remember the Ctrl-Alt-Del equivalent cause barely ever any reason to use it. I've had the same 11 inch MacBook air since 2011, surviving two manuscripts, 3 jobs and a baby. Say MashAllah. 🧿
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My best friend
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started off with a blue acoustic guitar we used to play during break in our Lahore school. For 20 years she has defied all stereotypes, worked harder than anyone I know and stayed true to herself. Last night, she was on
@BarackObama
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With so many folks getting together with family and friends, there’s a lot to celebrate this summer. Here’s a playlist of songs I’ve been listening to lately—it's a mix of old and new, household names and emerging artists, and a whole lot in between.
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This is a moment of extraordinary violence. We have just slaughtered a poet in the street.
#AmjadSabri
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This man... his grief was so large today that it filled up the room, and spilled over it and filled up the world. There was nothing in the entire world tonight but this man's grief. I saw it up close, and it was so beautiful and so painful that I never want to forget it.
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For men, only the truly horrifying will capture their imagination. Like a beautiful, hopeful girl beheaded by a monster or a pregnant woman stoned to death outside a courtroom. But WE are moved by every oppression hundreds of times a week.
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Apart from thinking “puttar apna moo na moreen” it’s a sad feeling holding your child and trying to write with level-headedness when every authentic bone in you wants to reflect the thought: This is not the place I wanted my children to inherit, you bloody monsters.
#workingmoms
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My baby was born over 3 months ago. I still have not, even once, kissed him to my heart’s content. I kiss the soles of his feet when it gets too much. Hopeless some days, life in a pandemic. It will get better, I know. But till it does I will have lost a hundred thousand kisses
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My girl
@arooj_aftab
received a Pride of Performance from the Pakistan government earlier today. The highest literary award in the country, and here she is celebrating it in true style. Awards come and go but a samosa is forever.
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After years of no real diagnosis, they gave up and he was started on high doses of psych meds at just 6 years old. As a family we went through hell, watching our beautiful boy stop speaking, stop interacting, and slip away into a faraway world we couldn't reach
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Over the last few weeks we have been to endless doctors. None except for two, had the basic compassion to treat him like a human being. After all these years as a family we are trained to pick up on the cues of people's apathy. It takes a moment and we can tell.
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On Saturday, I ventured out close to Camp Jail in Lahore to see how many people really go in and out of big prisons. Turns out, a lot. Watch our video report on prisons, pandemics and public health.
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It’s a healthy debate on whether women’s data is documented in an obsolete way. Our national database requires a woman’s husband’s name on ID if she’s married. Apart from the indignity of citizenship dependent on a spouse’s name, it is a logistical nightmare if the marriage ends
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I am reflecting today as we do every year on his birthday, on all the things that could have been. I play out the years of confusion, his fits of rage, the biting phase, his struggles with puberty, his chronic insomnia, endless pacing, cutting his hands, blood on the walls.
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And then, around 20 years of age, his quietness, his inversion, his defeat, his gait of an old man, his curved spine and hollow grey-green eyes. We left home one by one. Essa was left behind. So deep inside himself but watching us go, pacing the back lawn with tears in his eyes.
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Mother Andrews, a legend at my alma mater in Lahore passed away last week. Here, the women who taught me how to say please, thank you, to stand up for my elders, to respect people, clean my shoes and never waste food, carry her coffin out of the school chapel. Pc: Zahra Kazmi
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In Oct last year, we began weaning him off his psych meds. The ziapine was the first to go. But the side effects have been devastating. As of 2 months ago, he has completely stopped opening his mouth. We are force feeding him, it takes hours but my mom is a hero who won't give up
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My favourite moment and day of the last year before the pandemic hit— my parents singing their song together on their anniversary. I think for as long as I live, these few seconds of a rowdy November evening will be the place my mind wanders to in search of peace
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Our old cook on his way from Kashmir is also stuck 30 mins from Lahore toll. Just spoke to him and he told me everyone is going crazy with hunger. Masks off. Its hot.
There is no food close by he said, and there are children on these buses.
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I worked at The Nation in those days and the High Court wasn't far. I remember the story. A pregnant woman, Farzana, was stoned to death by her family as she waited for the court to open. She was murdered for marrying the man she loved while waiting on the steps of justice.
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Saw this at the counter of Cosmetique, a dermatology & surgery teaching centre and institute led by Dr. Azim Jahangir in Lahore's DHA and it warmed my heart. The waits are long but he is pretty much the best of the best in the country-- even in the region-- for skin diseases
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Happy 91st birthday to Brig. Ishtiaq Ahmad Khan, who’s lived a storybook life of war, glamour, grief & love. From him, I’ve learnt much about being a parent &laughing at life. His favourite quote in the world remains: “Boy oh boy, a good shit in the morning is half the job done.”
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At this time I can think of no tableegh or political incorrectness- just Junaid Jamshed's clear beautiful voice singing "Dil, dil Pakistan."
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China waali extension chord mai kis ne electric heater lagaya tha...
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"All of life will now be a series of me going through the motions. Every second for the rest of my life, I will be missing her," he said. "I'll do it. I'll go through the motions. But with her, I could do it so much better." He wept as he smiled.
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Their entire life together, no matter what, his answer to every concern she ever had was: "i'll handle it, Jaan." He was the fixer, the logistics guy, he'd move worlds just to stop her worrying. But today, he had to pick her up from that cargo section and the logistics guy broke.
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