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an op-ed written with frankness + rooted in a personal place. have intentionally omitted many details out of respect for those who have borne the weight of personal costs:
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Some feminist groups in Pakistan are shifting from symbolic protests to quieter, embedded collective work.
@wdf_pk’s Behnon ki Baithak on 8 March 2025 was one such experiment. @pind_wave on "After the March":
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anyone living in pakistan knows muslim women here - and around the world - dress in all sorts of ways. it is literally no stranger's business. pretending otherwise to lecture me in my replies, esp if you're a dude, will get you blocked.
i've never seen a more shareef sleeveless dress in my life. it's almost a turtleneck.
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Oh my girl 😭 she’s uncomfortable in these revealing clothes- the portray of haya in this scen- OMG #darenijaat
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Umera Ahmed in today’s ep of Dar-e-nijat v clearly pushing a narrative that women’s clothing is the problem, that wearing anything other than desi attire somehow makes a woman less connected to God; that women taking pictures, is somehow morally wrong. Shitty AF!
umera ahmed ka version of religion itna sasta hai ke eik munaasib sleeveless dress se threaten ho jaata hai.
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On 5th November 2026, a group of female advocates from across Punjab, led by Irum Shujah formally petitioned the Punjab Bar Council to act against a growing wave of AI-generated, hyper-sexualized content targeting female lawyers.
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Mitti De Baway is absolute CLASS.
Faiza Iftikhar has absolutely nailed it. The dialogues, character arcs, backstories, everything is so on point.
I genuinely haven’t come across something this good in more than a decade. Ullu Baraye Farokht Nahin was probably the last drama of this calibre, and MdB arguably has a much bigger canvas.
Amar Khan was simply brilliant in this scene. The ring in her voice, the emotion, the sheer control... an absolute masterclass in acting. Honestly, I’m running out of superlatives to describe the quality of the performances.
This is Pakistani television storytelling at its very best.
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1000s of working people in Saidpur & Bari Imam - many of them the original inhabitants of Isb - were brutally evicted without even pennies for bus fare. But owners of illegal One Constitution Avenue flats will get 3x what they paid, from taxpayer money. Blatant class warfare.
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URGENT
Short on time, needed within 4/5 days
Diwali ration distribution 30 bags at Rs 6500.
Distribution, Village Chhoto Mal Taluka Golarachi District Badin Sindh.
With @KolhiLeelaRam
islamabad in 2026: a year of bulldozers & rubble [thread]
this year CDA & mohsin naqvi have cleared homes, bazaars, trees & heritage across the city. follow the news so it's clear who it's being cleared for.
14 april: CDA bulldozes noori bagh in noorpur shahan, behind PM house
so families on this land got eviction notices but investors are being offered it without paying a rupee upfront.
by CDA's own count, it demolished 17640 houses across 13 neighbourhoods around noorpur shahan in a single month long operation.
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When will Islamabad get up for its rights? This unelected businessman Mohsin Naqvi upon us says we need a mamdani in Islamabad without realising that Mamdani is a socialist who doesn’t destroy poor people’s businesses but the big stores looting people. Shame on @MohsinnaqviC42
#Islamabad: G-10/G-11 Sunday Bazaar demolished. Keep following #ChampAlertsOnTheGo #CAOTG for more updates.
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رات کی تاریکی میں اسلام آباد کی انتظامیہ نے Islamabad Women Enterprise Market جو کہ کچھ عرصہ قبل ہی g-11 کی گرین بیلٹ پر بنائی گئی تھی اس کو ابھی مسمار کیا جا رہا ہے ۔70 کے قریب دکانیں ہیں جو غریب ہنرمند خواتین کو MCI نے الاٹ کی گئی ہیں ۔
لیکن اب یہاں سے گیارہویں ایونیو کی تعمیر بہت جلد ہونی ہے اس لیے اس کو گھرانا تو لازمی تھا۔
اگر مسمار ہی کرنی تھی تو انکو الاٹ کیوں کیا گیا؟
ایک ہی روز رات کے وقت دو بازار ختم کیے گئے کیا انکو نئی جگہ الاٹ کی جائے گی۔
@MOIofficialGoP @MohsinnaqviC42 @CMShehbaz @SohailAshrafGor @dcislamabad @ccislamabad @CDAthecapital @ICT_Police
islamabad is literally choking on dust these days c/o the countless construction projects being pushed through by this unelected yet somehow all powerful man with no pro-people vision for this city or country. khuda khair kare.
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A leaked diplomatic cable from 2009 states that Maulana Fazlur Rehman opposed military ops against TTP b/c it would decrease his influence as a mediator between TTP & the govt. Today, he has the audacity to claim TTP is a Pak Army conspiracy. He mocks security forces who die in TTP’s attacks—all while he himself has always cared more about his political influence than stopping TTP’s bloodshed.
Quote from the cable:
“Fazlur Rehman…has positioned himself & his party as a primary mediator between the government & militants…His decreasingly oblique criticisms of Pakistani military operations…& his more direct criticisms of a…Waziristan operation have kept pace with the increasing drumbeat of official talk about Waziristan. Fazlur Rehman's upset at the prospect of such an operation may in part be a reaction the political support that his party continues to carry there…but it also reflects the fact that…such an operation will represent the eclipse of his affiliates' mediating role in favor of force wielded by parties outside of his control.” wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/0…
مولانا فضل الرحمان کے خلاف نیب خیبرپختونخوا کی مبینہ انکوائری اور ان کے خاندان کے اثاثوں سے متعلق سوالات ایسے ہی ختم نہیں ہوسکتے۔ عوام یہ جاننا چاہتے ہیں کہ متعدد مکانات، پلاٹس، بیرون ملک مبینہ جائیدادوں اور خاندانی مالی مفادات کے ذرائع کیا ہیں۔ لیبیا سے پشاور میں مدرسے کی تعمیر کے لیے ملنے والے مبینہ عطیات کہاں خرچ ہوئے، وزارتِ مواصلات کے دور میں ان کے صاحبزادے اسعد الرحمٰن کے این ایچ اے سے مبینہ مالی مفادات کی حقیقت کیا ہے، اور ڈیرہ اسماعیل خان میں بلدیاتی اقتدار کے دوران ان کے بھائی لطف الرحمٰن کے اثاثوں میں مبینہ اضافے کی وضاحت کیوں سامنے نہیں آئی؟
حاجی غلام علی، سینیٹر طلحہ محمود، افتخار محمد، مفتی ابرار اور دیگر قریبی شخصیات کے مبینہ مالی کردار، نیز لندن اور دبئی میں مبینہ جائیدادوں کی تفصیل مولانا کیوں نہیں بتاتے۔ الزامات کی حقیقت کا فیصلہ سیاسی بیان بازی نہیں بلکہ مکمل اثاثہ جات، بینک ریکارڈ، ٹیکس دستاویزات اور آزادانہ تحقیقات کریں گی۔ مولانا فضل الرحمان کو ان تمام سوالات کا واضح، دستاویزی اور قابلِ تصدیق جواب دینا چاہیے۔
