Mirza Talal Baig

Chelsea fan. Love Eden Hazard. Imran Khan is mostly correct.

[Wajahat S. Khan @WajSKhan]

Aunty,

You're absolutely right about one thing: that the PTI has been in power for 13 years in KP. Besides that, here's a fact check with some context.

Structural gaps between Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa long predate PTI rule.

The 1981 census literacy stood at 16.7% in NWFP versus 27.4% in Punjab; by the 1998 census it was 37.3% versus 47.4%.

Punjab’s larger population, canal-irrigated agriculture from the colonial period, along with it's larger industrial base, have produced higher baseline development for not just decades, but more if you were to include the pre-Partition period -- as Gazetted in two centuries of colonial rule.

Moreover, under the 7th NFC Award (in force since 2010), the divisible pool is allocated primarily by population (82% weight), giving Punjab ~51.74% and KP ~14.62% plus a 1% war-on-terror top-up; absolute transfers therefore favor Punjab regardless of provincial performance.⁠

But you seem to brush over the fact that while you were getting glow ups in London and Jeddah, KP absorbed the principal costs of the post-2001 insurgency and successive military operations. SATP data record 5,883 terrorism-related fatalities in the province in 2009 alone (when you were still raising those lovely children in Mayfair). 2014's Operation Zarb-e-Azb, launched in North Waziristan -- where your father never once went as PM to visit troops -- displaced approximately 930,000 people.

Considering you were probably concentrating on your studies at King Edwards during this period, maybe a reminder is in order. The "threat" that you don't feel from India, rather from KP, thanks to the TTP and its network, grew out of the 1980s Afghan mujahideen infrastructure that Pakistan Army's then Chief, Zia-ul-Haq -- your father's personal mentor and sponsor -- had supported.

As for your father's last dance, well, violence fell sharply after the 2014–2017 operations (to roughly 100–200 annual fatalities by 2017–2019). But Daddy had nothing to do with military planning or ops -- rather, your father was flying out emissaries to talk to the TTP (but in a helicopter, not a Gulfstream, just FYI). It was the Raheels and the Tariq Khans and the Amir Riazes and the Asim Bajwas -- a lot considerably more talented and tolerant than the current one, that was handling the fighting.

Yes, violence did rise again after 2021. But it was after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, compounded by your Daddy's handpicked Chief, Qamar Bajwa, resettling the Taliban back in KP.

As for your allegations about inks to terrorism, here's the best part: senior PTI leaders were repeatedly assassinated by TTP during the peak years.

Look up these names, Auntry:

Israrullah Khan Gandapur: Serving as the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Law Minister for PTI, he was killed on October 16, 2013.

Sardar Ikramullah Khan Gandapur: Following his brother's assassination, Ikramullah won the vacated provincial assembly seat (PK-67) in a by-election and later served as the provincial Agriculture Minister. On July 22, 2018, just three days before the general elections, he was as targeted by a suicide bomber. By the way, this was the same election in which neither you nor Daddy could participate because both of you were convicted for hiding away billions in the Panama Papers case.

Want more? Look up these PTI leaders, Aunty:

Malik Tariq Awan, Peshawari PTI leader -- Killed in 2022 in Peshawar.

Atif Munsif Khan, Abbottabad Tehsil Mayor -- Killed in 2023 along with nine others in an ambush on his vehicle.

Rehan Zaib Khan, PTI Youth Leader -- Killed in broad daylight in 2024 while campaigning for NA-8 in Bajaur for the General Elections that you and Daddy and Chachoo stole.

Shah Khalid, Swabi PTI leader -- gunned down in Swabi just weeks before the stolen 2024 general elections.

Also in the lead up to those elections -- Malik Sameen Khan, North Waziristani PTI leader and elder, targeted and killed by unidentified gunmen in North Watziristan.

Look up these names. And think again about what you accuse the PTI of.

As for the “13 years of incompetence” framing, you omit federal responsibility for external and internal security, the costs of the 2018 FATA merger, and the fact that the steepest decline in KP violence coincided with early PTI provincial government plus large-scale military action.

Yes, Aunty: Terrorism actually dipped under Imran Khan's government. At least till your "Saada Chief" Bajwa didn't let the wolves back in post the US-pullout.

As for recent attack numbers that you love to cite, (PIPS: 111 in 2021 rising to 413 in 2025), remember that you track the post-2021 resurgence rather than a simple linear record of provincial governance.

If you've made it this far Aunty, here's the simplest part.

The KP's hard times didn't start under Imran.

But I can guarantee that they will not improve under you or your Daddy's illegal administration.

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@10_raffay Chelsea had the best defence in fifa 12.

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@HassanChels True. I think our captain should be caicedo or lacroix.

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@HassanChels You need to calm down 😭😭

I know we are absolutely shit defensively, but things will surely improve. This was never a season to win anything, its a season to build upon

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@HassanChels Happens when you give a manager time with sensible recruitments. We signed fofana in defence and he still hasn’t given us 1 good game.

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@HassanChels Defensive improvement will take time. Dont forget that our current problem lies only in defence, not in attack.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@EichEnKay I personally think xabi needs to be tough with the players, like how conte was

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@EichEnKay We just dont have a reliable replacement, thats the only issue.

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@EichEnKay THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. 😂😂😂

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@EichEnKay Shouldn’t do business with Monaco again IMO

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@EichEnKay Balogun deal also off 😂😂

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@edenasszard Calm down, deal is off

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@futchlver @AddictCfc_ @ChelseaFC Speak now

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@EichEnKay Arsenal away next week 😭😭

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@EichEnKay There was a different vibe at Stamford Bridge yesterday. Everyone looked sharp, and above everything, Happy. Board finally making things right.

[Pat Cummins @patcummins30]

Adding my support here to GC and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves

[Mirza Talal Baig @Baigson_9]

@EichEnKay People calling it cooking the books 😂😂😂😂