Zebunnisa Burki
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Women journalists/analysts shouldn't have to face abuse each time they write/speak/tweet. We shouldn't have to censor ourselves just bec those in office or w/power have frail egos & vicious trolls. Here's a statement by us -- because
#AttacksWontSilenceUs
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This is CCPO Umar Sheikh of the esteemed Punjab Police, for whom one IG has already been let go. This victim blamer is supposed to protect us?
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Tired of 'overseas Pakistanis ' giving bhaashans on Naya Pakistan. I'd love to see them if their Amreeki citizenship is revoked and they actually have to LIVE in Naya Pakistan.
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Former minister of human rights tweets a video in which a man calls Marriyum Aurangzeb kanjari (at 24-25 secs). Same video shared by the PTI official account. Cue the justifications (hint: there there be none)
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Disgusting. Both these people. Mediocrity dressed up as intellect on one end. Beauty dressed up as talent on the other. Man exposes self as misogynist (unsurprising). Woman exposed self as opportunist wokey (unsurprising again).
ایک عورت کے ساتھ بیٹھ کر اُسی کی شہہ پر دوسری عورتوں کی تذلیل کرنا اور پھر آئیڈینس سے تالیاں سیٹیاں بجوانا پھر اینکر کا اُس کی تعریف کرنا۔ آپ کے خیال میں یہ سب قدرتی ہے ؟ ہر گز نہیں مت بھولیں یہ دونوں اداکار ہیں اور اسکرپٹ رٹ کر بول کر قیمت لیتے ہیں
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Day 5 of the whole country being held hostage to one man's ego.
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For everyone wondering why some of us are so dizzy with happiness, this isnt about a party or two, this is about a very wounded constitution that has been rubbished constantly over the years. So, yes: let there be mithai
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From Shireen Mazari to Lums-educated PTI kids, they are now openly resorting to a very dangerous game of directly using religion to gun for the new govt and its ministers. I suppose one can keep screenshots but what's the point really. So depressing.
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I really don't understand how anyone can watch Irshad Bhatti for more than 2 minutes without wanting to start screaming.
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Dalla. Brothel. Prostitutes. Pimps -- just a few of the words chosen by the ruling party's reps today to describe dissenting members of their own party. All on national TV. Congratulations to the PTI for the gutters we've been dragged into.
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This is extremely disturbing. Is this what our tax money is going into? Arresting kids for a bunch of photos? How faarigh is our police force (both literal and moral)?
اسلام آباد پولیس نے ایک بڑے آپریشن کے بعد لاہور سے ملزم زوالفقار کو گرفتار کر لیا ہے جس نے قائداعظم کی پورٹریٹ کے سامنے کھڑے ہو کر شکلیں بنائیں تھیں۔۔
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Anyone in this party that hasnt resorted to such filth yet? Nopes.
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In the end, you all need the journalist to tell your story; the lawyer to fight your cases; the human rights activist to stand for your rights. You gun for them while heady with illegitimate power. But look to them for support when power leaves you. Sad. Predictable.
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We need to ensure work from home days -- 2-3 times a week. These are emergency times. Spending Rs2000 per day on commute is impossible. It just can't work.
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Both my parents are now at an age where I am petrified of them being affected by the virus. Why would anyone find it okay to make fun of people who seem scared of this pandemic. ITS A FUCKING PANDEMIC
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PM Shahbaz Sharif announces an in-camera session re 'the letter' in the parliamentary security committee, Says all security authorities be present, inc the DG ISI. Says if there's even an iota of evidence re the opposition's involvement in any such conspiracy he will resign
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Tito's balcony and The Fourth Floor room. Anchor & my Karachi home. That was Tito. He didn't say it but you saw the love. Was never just boss; so much more than that. No one should lose two homes within a year. I love you
@titojourno
Hope wherever you are there's really good food
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Honest advice to current Pak ministers. When Ghani announces his resignation, please don't tweet whatever comes into your head. Save the smirks and glee for when you're home -- alone. There is nothing to celebrate when a neighbour is in trouble, no matter what.
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There is no other way to describe the way the PPP government in Sindh has handled
#JusticeforNazimJokhio
than absolutely criminal. Just no justification.
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Nearly twenty people died just because they wanted a two-minute respite from the disaster our lives have become. They died in their cars, in the cold, with their families. There is no excuse. There can be no justification. This is not just a tragedy, this is criminal.
#Murree
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Remember these names. Those who stood up for justice at personal cost.
🇵🇸✊️
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They'll do jalsas smack in the middle of the worst emergency in decades. They'll try and sabotage a necessary IMF deal. They wont raise funds for flood victims. But they are the Messiah. Sweet life.
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Today in Life's So Unfair: even Ehsanullah Ehsan managed to see Turkey before me.
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IK in Multan: I'm told Shehbaz Sharif wakes up at 7. ....my maali wakes up at 6am..... how does that matter?
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TLP protesters attacked General Hospital in Lahore. Police had to run inside the hospital to protect themselves.
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Shehryar Afridi signing his ballot paper, and now scrambling to be allowed to cast the vote again is what the PTI's near-three years in power look like.
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These kids will save us. Good on them.
Also: if you find yourselves applauding Columbia U students and then turning up your nose at this, you all have issues.
Pro palestine protestors call out German ambassador during his speech on civil rights
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She was human. So she was flawed. But she was the face of mainstream resistance in this country. And she inspired generations, and gave hope to millions. We can debate the good/bad of that. But we can't argue over how fiercely brave this woman was. Here's to BB. (Photo: Getty)
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Geo reporting on Usama Nadeem's case: young man shot 22 times by police in Islamabad; shots were fired from the front and hit him mostly on the face and upper body, they say. No weapons etc discovered from the boy's car.
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No excuse, no justification for picking up Jibran Nasir. This is extremely disturbing, unconditionally condemnable.
#ReleaseJibranNasir
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Kill the Shia. Lynch the Ahmadi. Rape the Woman. And then Drool over Public Hangings -- because you're still not satisfied with the violence. This Is Us.
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Can I say every time SS says mere bhai Dawar I get a lump in my throat. This has been a long time coming -- this solidarity, however short-lived it may be.
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In my next life, I'd like to be an overseas Pakistani who lives in the US, UK, Australia, or Canada. Thank you.
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I repeat: former education minister Punjab.
A* for Creative Thinking.
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Comes from a rich family, wife taught at super-elite Lahore school, daughters studied in O and A levels schools -- but now wishes for 'uniformity' in education.
Shafqat Mahmood announced plans to eliminate O-level (Ordinary level) and A-Level (Advanced level) education from the schools countrywide to implement a uniform curriculum in the system.
#konhaiyea
#ShafqatMahmood
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I lost my best friend today. Anyone who knew Zain was forever touched by his amazing mind. The world doesn't make much sense. Thank you everyone who has called. Due to Covid complications, only 2-3 of his close friends are arranging his last rites.
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Mufti Muneeb says mosques will remain open. And there will be jumma prayers with shorter khutbas. Seriously, what's the point of a 'lockdown' then?
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There are survivors who are in a critical condition. Please do pray for them. Wherever you are.
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Censorship is when protests are not reported. Like what happened with the PTM. As far as I could tell, every large channel covered the PTI protests and every paper has stories on them.
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So he invites a celebrity (I assume this was not a political show) & then proceeds to try and shame her political views? Wht else can one expect from someone who has consistently stood on the wrong side of almost all social debates. His politics, his business. Wont comment on tht
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Edhi Foundation is the only place I would trust implicitly. Please donate generously.
پاکستانیوں ، اپنے خیرات صدقات میں ایدھی فاونڈیشن کو نہ بھولئیے ،
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Last night a close friend was hospitalised (ICU). I had tweeted in the dead of night a request for blood donors. An angel came fwd w/ three kind friends who reached within 30 mins. Another young man donated w/out knowing us at all. I don't know how to explain what that means
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Real solidarities transcend race, ethnicity, geography, language.
Emotional scenes as parents of Pashtun leader Manzur Pashteen meet Dr Mahrang Baloch, one of the leaders of long march against “Baloch Genocide”.
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Geo reporting that Ayaz Sadiq is now seated on the speaker's chair in the NA. The opposition is continuing its session. This is all....unique.
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To the people getting all twisted over Sindh getting masks, you all seem educated enough to read. Here, read this 👇 so that I dont have to read your misinformed outrage.
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Shahzeb Khanzada on Geo right now, responding to IK's threat to sue: Geo vetted the story; if he didnt sell to Umar Farooq, then just let us know who it was sold to; if the man is a fraud then what's he doing with the watch?
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Sitara-e-Imtiaz for Best Performance in Apologising in British Courts 👌
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So Dawn and The News not invited to the PM's presser in Khi. Fata MNAs and Pakhtuns written off as terrorists. 'Journalists' giving home tours (and lying down in empty bathtubs). And a study circle on Article 6. What a lovely new place this Naya Pakistan is.
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These are very good optics. And hope Noon and its PM (who's checking all the right boxes for now) keep at this. Don't listen to relics of past toxicity.
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Got to know
@MiftahIsmail
Sb since he started writing for us. Not only a gentleman, he's also super smart. What a country: arresting, nabbing, censoring all the wrong people.
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The past 1.5 years, Shahzeb Khanzada consistently highlighted production of expensive power & the PTI govt failure to ensure timely purchase of LNG. Every time he/Geo were abused, w/PTI ministers challenging him to 'debates'. Same lot feigning ignorance of their mismanagement now
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@HamidMirPAK
in today's Jang (): وزیرِ داخلہ اعجاز شاہ نے عمار رشید کے خلاف بغاوت کے مقدمے کا دفاع کیا اور یہ صاحب کچھ دن پہلے پرویز مشرف پر بغاوت کے الزام کی مذمت کر رہے تھے۔
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Not the prettiest, I know. Nor the easiest. But I do love you Karachi! ❤️
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Whoever is advising MNS, they're doing a very good job.
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Absolutely NOTHING justifies this arbitrary restriction on our right to access the internet. This is pure and simple anti-people, anti-freedom of speech/expression/right to information. Bring back 4G, restore access to social media sites. Stop behaving like five-year-olds.
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In my next life, I want to be a wellpaid white woman troll for the Pakistani state.
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I know it's meant well but please do not turn this into a movement for even more control over women. We do not need paternalistic regulations. We need the state and society to ensure a woman is safe even at 3am on a lonely street.
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DGISPR statement: whatever has happened today, the institution has nothing to do with it.
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So NCOC pretty much doing what it has done till now. Honestly, this is criminal. The PM refuses to even entertain the idea of shutting down to survive. And if you come @ me with the poors must live, please be the first one to let go of your oxygen tank for them too then.
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This is disgusting, dangerous and needs to be reported. This is what Pakistan's women are up against. Dark times.
I’m shocked at Imran Khan’s ‘views’ on why
#ZahirJaffer
murdered
#NoorMuqaddam
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You do not know how carefully women have to navigate even the best workspaces in this country. Every single act is judged only on one yardstick -- a woman's sexuality, and her relation to men (wife, daughter, sister). 1/2
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Two cents on the
#MusharafVerdict
Those lines are an own-goal; they take away from the judgment; they take away from the precedent that was being set; they've made a mockery of the whole debate. Not sure what the thinking was because even a five-year-old can see what they've done
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Student -- Shia, Mohajir, from Karachi -- asks valid question. The caretaker prime minister's response is very disturbing.
Someone please check in on this kid.
And for crying out loud, these 'interactions' with students need to stop.
Really worried for this young man.
Exchange Between BNU's students and Pm Pakistan; Provocative Queries Directed at PM during BNU Session"
Naajaf Abbas a radicalized student of Beacon House National University ,during the visit with the Prime Minister, raised concerns about the treatment of Baloch people in…
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On Geo,
@shazbkhanzdaGEO
says: PM IK used to say Buzdar was Wasim Akram Plus. Could anyone have imagined kicking Wasim Akram out of the team.
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Personally, I think the NCOC should take a bow for a job well done. We can have minot disagreents re some decision or the other but NCOC managed to pull this off very well overall.
Today is last day of NCOC operation. With covid indicators at all time lows & high level of vaccination, baton now being passed on to health ministry. Chairing NCOC during last 2 years & working with the most dedicated team has been the greatest privilege and honour of my life.
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This is NOT how you respond to a journalist. Period.
Do not try to act smart and play nasty. I gave a principled statement which is in line with what our constitution says. Don’t make it sound like it was directed at our party president or any specific member.
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DG ISPR: 'Any effort to create a rift between the people and the armed forces is against national interest. Constructive critics, is fine but.... a malicious campaign is being run against the army and its leadership, using even deepfake tech'
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And this too will be defended. Shame. Truly salute women journalists in this country for continuing to work amidst such misogyny.
#AttacksWontSilenceUs
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FACT: journalism has been under attack for a while now in Pakistan. If you can't see that, you're standing next to the attackers.
#AsadAliToor
#FreePress
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I can now either make rent + building maintenance or eat + travel to work. Forget anything else. Don't know how many more jobs a person can do just to barely exist. I know I know...IMF...necessary etc etc -- but how many ppl will be on the streets begging before the year is out?
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IK in Multan: 'Maryam Nawaz took my name with such jazba and junoon yesterday at her jalsa that I want to tell her: pls be careful....your husband may get upset'. [THIS IS A NEW LOW EVEN FOR IMRAN KHAN]
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I wrote about 'good' girls, 'bad' women and the rights of the moza. "We had rather our women debate...using the ‘right’ language, the ‘right’ kind of responses, never lose their cool and never – ever – resort to ‘vulgarity’ – because, please, women."
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Thank you so much, people. My brother has been found. Alhamdolillah, he is fine. Was involved in an accident. But he's okay. Thank you so so very much for all the help.
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Hamid Mir Sb saying the 'letter' may not be in the form it was when it was sent by the ambassador. It may have been 'added to'. 😳
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Nothing justifies this tweet. Not even a dog whistle, this is open invitation for a woman to be trolled and harassed online. Didn't expect anything else from this account though.
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'Islamabad bewafayon ke shehr hai' -- Irshad Bhatti on Geo
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Journalists, activists, political workers have faced the most cruel silencing tactics by the state, especially during the PTI regime. They were mocked and abused by the PTI govt and its social media team. May no one ever have to go through that -- including PTI workers.
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The Pakistani state nurtures monsters against its own ppl every few years. Then those monsters become larger than what they were meant to be: easy assets (doesn't mean they're not still used as assets). That's when the Pakistani state goes hides under a rock. Every few years
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Ammar Ali Jan explains it best:"We live in a strange era...we have dozens of channels but no free media, 100s of universities but no critical thinking, a growing number of festivals/conferences but no free exchange of ideas. And yet, nobody can call out tht the Emperor is naked!"
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Frustrating time to be a journalist in Pakistan. Say nothing, write nothing, think nothing. Just fall in line. And if you don't, we're coming to 'pick you up'
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"Usman Kakar’s final political act was bringing together thousands of Baloch and Pashtun people in a moment of collective loss"
@mjdawar
with a heartfelt tribute to the late Usman Khan Kakar:
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