Tariq Ahsan
@tariqahsan
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@rolandparis
How PM Trudeau acted doesn’t matter. What does matter is that You
@realDonaldTrump
were unable to extract concessions from him. You don’t know the art of diplomacy, Mr. President. The electoral college must be so disappointed in you. Sad.
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@AsimSBajwa
Your refutation, Gen. Sahib, should be based on evidence. They put their name to their story. They’re not hiding. We’ll see if you are able to refute their evidence,or will hide in a bunker.
#Bajwa
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@Etanetan23
@MazMHussain
Arafat chose the path of peace and diplomacy, but Israel refused to end occupation and continued to annex territory and expel Palestinians from their homes.
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@denisebatters
The Minister was elected by Canadian citizens. You, Senator, were “put up” by Prime Minister Harper,live in a proverbial glass house, yet can’t resist the urge to throw stones.
#CdnPoli
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@SevaUT
I'm against nuclear war, so I think there should be a fair compromise. Restoration of Ukraine's sovereignty in 1992 borders, with full citizenship rights for Russian speaking Ukrainians, and all other nationalities, including Crimean Tatars.
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@rupasubramanya
You're obviously fine with indoor shopping area being invaded by mask less people, endangering staff and customers.
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Excellent points
Keir Starmer's support for war crimes triggered a revolt in the Labour party, mass resignations of councillors - and panic from the leadership.
I spoke to two brilliant councillors,
@shaistaAziz
and Cllr Amna Abdullatif - about why they resigned - and what happens next.
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@shadihamid
Chelsea may exaggerate, but your blanket denial of US state's ability to intrude in private lives of citizens touches height of naivety.
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@sakhtarmengal
As a youngster, I heard Mir Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo (may he rest in peace) explain Balochi is the language, Baloch are the people, in mid 70s. Your need to explain 45 years later, shows successive generations of Pakistan elite persist in their ignorance of Baloch people & culture.
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Prime Minister Imran Khan
@ImranKhanPTI
, please ensure Idris Khattak Sahib is released and is able to be with his loving family.
#enforceddisappearances
More than 10 months since Papa's disappearance.
Idris Khattak was abducted on 13th November 2019. We haven't heard from him since. Life has come to a pause for us. We can't move on not knowing if he is okay or when he will be back.
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Parliament should act now to fire Javed Iqbal, Chair of commission on forcibly disappeared persons who faces credible allegations of sexual harassment.
@CMShehbaz
@BBhuttoZardari
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@ImaanZHazir
@AsadAToor
I feel that when someone says to a woman in Pakistan, kisee "ke sath milna" and "gariyon mein ana jana", implying it was undesirable, it's an unacceptable innuendo. Who she meets, and who she travels in a car with, is none of his business.
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@InklessPW
@AndrewScheer
Ha ha! The boss of conservative international & Scheer's mentor Stephen Harper was bashing Liberals for not caving to Trump, and now he's conveniently bashing them for conceding too much. What a confused lot.
#CdnPoli
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@husainhaqqani
That's because US is not a "superpower". It was Albright who had stopped using description, replacing it with "indispensable power," for a reason.
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@AdilNajam
Mujib is quoted by Bhutto in his short pre India Pakistan war book, The Great Tragedy (1971, as telling him: “once the military has crushed me, they’ll come after you”. Yet, our political society has refused to learn from this sad experience.
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@tparsi
@RollingStone
Accurate, but merely. China attacked Vietnam in 1979, to punish it for ending the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, but ended up with a bloody nose itself, losing 800 soldiers. It also backed right wing insurgencies in Angola & Afghanistan from 70s onwards.
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@mehdirhasan
@Swamy39
Swamy, who taught a summer course at Harvard University, was fired for demanding Muslims shouldn't have a right to vote in India in 2011. When Trump was a silly birther, & Duterte, Modi, Bolsonaro weren't in power either.
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Prime Minister
@CMShehbaz
, please setup truth and reconciliation process to enable entire state apparatus to implement Gen. Bajwa's
@OfficialDGISPR
commitment to henceforth submit to rule of law, to account for all cases of enforced disappearances, and release of all citizens.
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Captain Zarghaam Freed sacrificed his life for the protection of the community he was serving. May Allah give strength to his loving family. May Allah enable Sepoy Rehan to achieve a steady and complete recovery. Gratitude to them & to their families.
Another son of soil laid his life while performing duty. Capt Zarghaam Fareed embraced martyrdom while neutralising an IED detected at Mohmad Gat in Mohmand Distt. Sepoy Rehan of BD team got critically injured. 25 years old Capt Zarghaam was unmarried and belonged to Sargodha.
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@madeleine
@realDonaldTrump
Rich coming from someone who knowingly kept imposing sanctions that hurt Iraqi children most.
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@IndianPrism
Except for Aurangzeb, none of the Mughal Kings were particularly religious. Babur defeated a Muslim, Ibrahim Lodhi, who had a bigger army. An exile, who became a successful military commander, & created a state whose imprint remains. It’s a fascinating story.
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@HaroonRiaz
He wanted the military to stop protecting extremist organizations that Pakistan had promised to bring to book. That's what "Dawn leaks" was about. Later facing FATF pressure, the military began to do some of that.
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@myraemacdonald
Nawaz Sharif & Maryam Sharif facing heartless persecution even though they’re likely innocent, & didn’t receive fair trial for sure.
#BegumKulsoomNawaz
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@fsblank
@AmirAminiMD
Marx said "a nation that oppresses another nation can never itself be free." Marx would've stood with 🇵🇸, 🇾🇪 and 🇺🇦. In his lifetime, he stood with 🇮🇪, and Chechnya. Said Chechen leader Imam Shamil's resistance against 🇷🇺 was a democratic struggle.
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@dhnexon
@ianbremmer
In 2014 a 🇺🇦 nationalist coup deprived Russian speaking Ukrainians of their constitutional rights, sparking rebellions that Putin exploited. US fomented this coup.
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Prime Minister, Bilawal Bhutto, CM Murad, Our daughters in Sindh are abducted & married off after force conversion, which is a sin, and a flagrant violation of law. Please act now to recover Parwan Meghwar, and unite her with her family.
@SindhCMHouse
@BBhuttoZardari
@CMShehbaz
A Hindu girl Parwan Meghwar from Umarkot Sindh, was abducted & converted to Islam & later married off to her abductor.
Sadly, no matter who is in power, these daughters of Pakistan continue to suffer. We must SPEAK up.
#StopForcedConversions
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@nailainayat
Imran Khan also backed a witch-hunt demanded by Rizvi, to determine who had altered the electoral oath, which was a Big Lie, as nothing was altered. Among the most shameful episodes in Imran’s political career.
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@mehdirhasan
Somalia fell apart after it attacked Ethiopia in aftermath of King Haille Salasie’s ouster, with US military & political backing, and lost. Overnight, Cold War adversaries switched sides. Earlier Ethiopia had been with the West & Somalia with Soviets.
@RandPaul
, ask Dad.
#USPoli
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Hi Imran Khan (
@ImranKhanPTI
), this would’ve not happened if you’d had your way and narrow minded Johnson crony Goldsmith had been mayor of London.
#London
#IftarParty
Tonight thousands of Londoners from all walks of life came together at the heart of our city for a Ramadan Iftar.
And doesn't Trafalgar Square look beautiful!
Here in London - we embrace and celebrate our diversity.
#Ramadan
#LoveLondon
❤
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@Perlsgirl1
@mehdirhasan
What does a dumb understanding of Putin have anything to do with the credibility of an allegation of assault?
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@KiavashNajafi
No. Put RCMP & CSIS on the mat for not detecting & disrupting an existential White supremacist threat to 🇨🇦. Its Continental organizational & financial resources meant that only national institutions could've dealt with this threat.
#cdnpoli
#ottcity
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@aaolomi
Yes, Dmitry Mendeleev was Russian, so we should prohibit teaching of the periodic table in schools. Gut Chemistry.
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@mahparasafdar
"first lady" is a very 🇺🇸 concept. There, it refers to the president's spouse. In a parliamentary system, pm should be expected to emphasise role as public servant, not seek special status for family.
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@ImaanZHazir
@AsadAToor
His substantive critique of her style of journalism was good, but there was some innuendo about social life that was most unfortunate and undermined the critique as a whole.
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@rolandparis
If there were no hostilities occurring between Iran & US, the Ukrainian plane wouldn't have been shot down. It's passengers would be alive. Who made the strategic & tactical decisions that caused these hostilities?
#USPoli
#CdnPoli
#Suleimani
#CdnFP
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@MiftahIsmail
How do you reconcile your belief in ideology of laisser faire liberalism with your critique of elite domination? Isn’t gross inequality integral to the functioning of an ideal free market. Big fish getting bigger, protecting their turf.
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@rupasubramanya
Civil disobedience empowers communities with their consent and participation. Not about invaders flouting public health guidelines shutting them down.
#cdnpoli
#Ottawa
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@AhmarSKhan
British Labour MPs calling for a cease fire have not been disciplined. Stiles stance seems to be harsher than that of way more right wing and militarist Starmer, in this regard.
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@joanwalsh
and wage slavery is when people are compelled to sell their ability to work for a price that doesn't fetch food and shelter
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Yes. Artists are universally loved & it's disappointing when they give in to nationalist frenzy.
Sir. Make a trip to Pakistan&see normal people live here who r warm hearted&respectful.U ll return as our friend not foe. Pple love u here.
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Puri Sahib was emotional, not drunk. He made a good point. India & Pakistan shouldn't be enemies.
Sir.If Ompuri said in drunken state then let drunken rule us
Wise,alert ppl brought wars,hatred.
Btw why drunken love peace&pious want wars?
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What a shame. Young Ali Haider, marched to
#Pakistan
capital to demand release of compatriots, is a victim of forced disappearance himself. Please get him released, Prime Minister Imran Khan.
@ImranKhanPTI
@amnesty
#MissingPerson
Sad to know that Ali Haider disappeared I saw him as a little boy few years ago when he walked from Quetta to Islamabad for the release of his father Ramzan Baloch unfortunately he is also missing today
#ReleaseAliHaider
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@Fahdhusain
@ImranKhanPTI
Imran's ability to pull crowds doesn't correlate with electoral appeal. He's never won an election. Not in 2013, when Taliban wouldn't let key opponents campaign. Not even in 2018, with full media & military backing. No reason to expect he'll do better next time.
#ImranKhan
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“Pakistan is not a citadel of Islam, but a cauldron, whose fires are stoked by its military...” Ali Ahmad Kurd
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@Yutopia_ba
Arendt makes no original contribution to philosophy, but she does offer eloquent defence of free speech and democracy, & good description of fascism that she analogically extends to the Soviet experience in “Origins..”, which made the book half excellent, and half disingenuous.
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@jkenney
People you derisively refer to as "addicts" are Canadian citizens in need of help. They are from all ethnicities, occupations, & pol persuasions.
#cdnpoli
#onpoli
#onpoli
#opioidcrisis
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@formulaonegf
@Imranicus
Hope and pray violence against women will end. May Sabina Nessa rest in peace and may her family have the strength to cope with the grief.
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@zburki
No PM, "Dawn leaks" was about military not wanting Pakistanis to know that rest of the world, including China were fed up with their coddling of terrorists, and were no longer going to protect them in global fora. With FATF tightening the noose, the state eventually obeyed them.
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Will Islamabad High Court succeed in compelling the Pakistan military to produce a civil servant whose disappearance is seen as linked to corruption allegations against a General? Crucial moment today.
Today is Monday. IHC ordered Mr Gondal to be produced today. Will kidnappers deliver? Will their identity be revealed? Will Mr Gondal give details like
@Matiullahjan919
did? Will courts ensure no one is dissapeared by State again?
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Khan Sahib, Cold War was on when🇵🇰 was born, & it's army had umbilical ties with 🇬🇧 nat sec bureaucracy, now extending to 🇺🇸. If 🇺🇸 wished to tell Bajwa to oust you, they wouldn't need to use State Dept - 🇵🇰 ambassador route. They'd communicate directly.
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@KlasraRauf
& don't forget to express solidarity w Beirut. 44 dead, 249 injured on Nov 12. Media ignoring.
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@NaPoha_
Regardless of your Pashtun ethnicity, the colour of your blood is the same as that of a Tamil, or an American, or that of any of us. That has nothing to do with anything. In the end, we’re all human and need to stand together for justice and rights for all of us.
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@ianbremmer
Trump clearly has fascist intent. Only reason he can't carry out his personal political programme is that his allies don't control the House, and judiciary. That prevents him from banning all dissent, rigging elections, trying to impose full fledged authoritarian rule.
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@CBCAdrianH
@PaulChampLaw
Peter Trueman, Global News anchor during 80s was also sympathetic to the South African apartheid regime. When PM Mulroney protested execution of a rebel poet by Pretoria, Trueman criticized him, claiming, the person never made his income from writing poetry.
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@BBCBreaking
Always very sad to hear a once happy couple are splitting. Wish Sophie all the best, and pray the children will find the strength to cope.
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@MazMHussain
Such intelligence is often credible, and can save lives. Brits and Europeans manged to warn at least 2 academics of threats to their lives by Pakistan state agencies, and at least in one case, managed to get a conviction too.
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@OmairTAhmad
When India originally began it's campaign for a UNSC seat in the 90s, the leader of the stipulated pairing state from the western hemisphere, Henrique Cardoso, said he'd prefer the veto be abolished altogether, instead of Brazil having one. Sage advice.
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@medeabenjamin
Blinken also backed regime change in Libya that turned a once prosperous country into a modern slave market.
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@peaceforchange
What the heck Asif Sahib. Completely taken leave of your senses? How would you feel if your Indian counterpart posted similar stuff? Instead of mourning precious lives, you’re trivializing Pakistani patriotism. We take pride in our achievements without insulting others.
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@RosieBarton
Imran Khan should walk this talk in 🇵🇰 too, where citizens sign hateful oath labelling a person revered by a religious minority as a "fake" to get passport. He should fix blasphemy laws to stop persecution of minorities, & act to stop forced conversion & marriage of Hindu women.
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I just emailed my MP,
@JustinTrudeau
,
@cafreeland
,
@Bill_Morneau
in support of
#RecoveryUBI
.
#UniversalBasicIncome
will speed up our recovery and leave Canadians stronger. Will you do the same?
@UBI_Works
#cdnpoli
#UBIWorks
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@MirzaWaheed
Hope more opinion makers and people in positions of power will come to see the reality of injustice being meted out to
#Kashmiris
by the Indian government with the same clarity with which Bernie Sanders views it.
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@CBCQueensPark
Censure someone for calling for peace? Never heard of anything more ridiculous than this.
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@BDUTT
Soldier grumbles about food, and his commanders publicise his personal file. This breach of soldier's privacy is criminal.
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Rauf Klasra, once fine investigative reporter, justifies
#censorship
. Modern authoritarianism relies on media people to back its practices. Smart.
#CensorshipInPakistan
No offences pls but no where a top accused of money laundering,frauds & fake accounts is allowed one hour air time to justify his crimes. It only happens in Pakistan where an accused in custody of NAB on physical remand,appears on tv to give us lecture on democracy& transparency
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Raza Khan, activist campaigning for friendship between India and Pakistan has been missing for five months. PM Abbasi, please release him immediately.
@betterpakistan
@kdastgirkhan
@amnesty
@AmnestyNow
Peace activist Raza Khan, convener of Aaghaz E Dosti, missing since five months. A voice of reason & dissent languishes somewhere in a dark cell. He must be released...
#FindRaza
@a_siab
@Razarumi
@Advjalila
@AliHZaidiPTI
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@soledadobrien
@jricole
In fairness, Reagan’s daughter was a critic of his militarist policies when he was in office. She managed to have him meet Dr. Helen Caldecott so he’d understand the reality of nuclear danger.
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When we are told that we share the care and upbringing of our precious girls as a community, then why are our daughters being forced to change their religion? When will this stop??
#StopForcedConversions
#SayNoToHate
#Pakistan
سنا تھا کہ بیٹیاں تو سب کی سانجھی ہوتی ہیں تو پھر ہماری بیٹیوں کی جبری ��ذہبی تبدیلی کیوں؟ آخر کب تک؟
#StopForcedConversions
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@HassanJavid_
Interesting that Generals Ayub, Yahya, Zia, & Musharraf turned this into an armed forces celebration day, their abrogation of so many constitutions notwithstanding.
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@SevaUT
Gorbachev's over throwers were opposed to the independence of Baltics & Georgia. Putin, interestingly, was on the other side then. President Bush had called idea of 🇺🇦 independence, " crazy."
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@rahulkanwal
@narendramodi
Chamchagiri ki intiha. You can do PR for Modi, without claiming to be a journalist. No dishonour, then.
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@MaximeBernier
Einstein was a refugee, and he was not poor. Fear of persecution makes one a refugee. Not the absence or presence of wealth. Christians from Nigeria, or Roma from Hungary (whom you tried to keep out of Canada) face persecution, regardless of ability to buy air tickets.
#CdnPoli
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Tahir Dawar, sensitive man, poet, conscientious police officer with a reputation for competence & honesty, was kidnapped from
#Islamabad
, the national capital of
#Pakistan
, & tortured to death.
#TahirDawar
Post mortem report reveals SP Dawar tortured to death, bones of fingers and foot crushed and stomach empty. This monstrous brutality must not go unpunished, will not go unpunished. In the fullness of time nothing remains secret and the perpetrators will be exposed, punished.
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@arwaib
Need to watch full message. She's likely describing the ugly reality without endorsement.
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@McFaul
@AKimCampbell
Part I of tweet is patently false as the entire world knows how US conspired with Russian oligarchs to engineer Yeltsin victory.
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@murtazasolangi
Disingenuous of Ms. Aslam to suggest Pakistan PM should've met Hurriyet while attending Indian PM's inauguration. As guest at formal ceremonial function you don't poke host in the eye. NS tried to set up working relationship to restart diplomacy which could benefit Kashmiris too.
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@HeerJeet
For Peterson, the dystopia in Handmaid’s Tale is a desirable state of affairs. Disgusting! The Trump age brings literalism to discourse, & some people actually say what they believe.
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@sonaliranade
Lenin was never a democrat. Bernie is. He's not a "great leader" telling people what to do. He's backing struggles of working peoples, fighting gender inequality, racism, speculative finance capital, oppressive health insurance cartels, & so on. He's part of a just movement.
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General Sahib, your Army has never won a war, conquered your own country many times, but today you conquered it politically. That's a great victory. Your schadenfreude is well deserved. Have Lassi. Cheers.
#BajwaExtension
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@michaeldweiss
@DilliDurAst
Mr. Weiss, we are talking about a precious life, of someone who has disappeared, has a family.
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@mohammedhanif
Pakistan's elite travel to Europe & US so their children will be born there and be eligible for citizenship. Scandalous that they don't permit the same right to children born in Pakistan.
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@suchitrav
🇵🇰's famous Mohammad brothers were from Junagadh. Their brilliant coach Abdul Aziz was an Afghan, whose son Salim Durrani was a dashing all rounder for the Indian national team. What borders?
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Khan Sahib, itna ronay dhonay ki kia baat he? Aap khud istefa de ke intihabaat karwa letay. Aqalyati hukumatein aksar parliaman mein gir jati hein. Koi beazati ki baat nahi. Aglay intikhab ka intizar or tayyari karen.
#NoConfidenceMotion
@ImranKhanPTI
الیکشن کمیشن پہلے ہی نواز کے ساتھ ہے اب وہ ججز کو ساتھ ملارہے ہیں، وزیراعظم کا الزام
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@CBCOttawa
@CBCAdrianH
@jchianello
That's serious error of judgement. The Mayor owes people of
#ottcity
an apology, and a credible plan to ensure there's a proper solution to ongoing and expected problems with
#OttawaLRT
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@MacLeodLisa
@CBCAdrianH
Why Ms. MacLeod? Because you won’t be able to cope with Kathleen Wynne’s critique?
#CdnPoli
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@BobRae48
That means Canada is about the announce a ban on arms exports to UAE and Saudi Arabia?
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Prime Minister Imran Khan
@ImranKhanPTI
, please dissociate yourself from your Interior Minister's threats to the lives of members of the opposition, and fire him right away, so intelligence personnel will know you wish no harm to come to Pakistanis who disagree with you.
ریاست وضاحت کرےاعجاز شاہ سچ بول رہاہے یا جھوٹ ؟
وہ دھمکی آمیز انداز میں بتا رہے ہیں کہ جب ANP نے طالبان کی مخالفت کی تو بلور فیملی کو ، (میاں افتخار ) یعنی میرے بیٹے کو مار دیا۔ یہ ری ایکشن تھا۔
دل خون کے آنسو رو رہا ہے۔
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@anneapplebaum
@ProPublica
The same applies to Trump too. If his business dealings had appropriate scrutiny, the US & the world could’ve been spared so much pain & danger.
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@SPMiles42
@stephenWalt
and all this happening as Trump's North Korean relationship is in crisis
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@piya
That's so sad. I decided to stay in Canada on a morning in an Ottawa bus, during the 90s, when I saw kids from English, Chinese, & South Asian backgrounds having fun together. Thought my daughter should grow up here. Hate to realize I might've been wrong.
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Please compensate this hard working citizen, and stop punishing people for simply trying to make a living.
@BBhuttoZardari
@OfficialDGISPR
On Saturday evening I saw a Karachi DHA vigilance team stop a thelaywala selling matti kay bartan - they took his thela to the side to an empty plot & made him throw each & every earthen item on to the ground so that it breaks - this must have cost him several thousand rupees
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