Basharat Issa

A rural soul wandering in the urban chaos |
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[Basharat Issa @BasharatIssa]

سوداؔ جو بے خبر ہے وہی یاں کرے ہے عیش
مشکل بہت ہے ان کو جو رکھتے ہیں آگہی

[Basharat Issa @BasharatIssa]

@PakPostOffice My Parcels are to be delivered to Post office Yasin GB, which I sent from Karachi. I am being told to pick them from post office Gahkuch which is around 70 kms from my village. Gahkuch PO staff say they aren't facilitated to deliver the parcels. Plz look into this.

[Basharat Issa @BasharatIssa]

I asked AI to imagine the cycle and here's what I got.

[Hammad Waleed @HammadWaleed7]

@BasharatIssa The cycle continues. Unfortunately.

[Basharat Issa @BasharatIssa]

@HNadim87 So even the minerals from Gilgit-Baltistan won't help then? 😀

[Basharat Issa @BasharatIssa]

Even the poor horses are clearly feeling the burden of a useless colonial legacy.

[PMS Officers Association of Punjab. @PMSPUNJAB]

A New Dimension in PMS Training: Horse Riding Initiative at MPDD.
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As part of a progressive step towards holistic training and officer well-being, horse riding has been introduced for the first time for the officers of PMS Batch-14 undergoing training at Management & Professional Development Department (MPDD).
This healthy and confidence-building activity has been initiated on the special request and collective efforts of the PMS Officers Association.

[Basharat Issa @BasharatIssa]

@HammadWaleed7 Then why they waste the 5 years of MBBS and I am sure a subsidized seat theat can be a source of income for a family.

[𓅰 @Social__eclipse]

#Burushaski : Chaxór (chakhor, چخور)

A tool used in the old days by communities in Gilgit-Baltistan for spinning sheep or goat wool into thread.

[Russell @ATLCWorker]

We’re all born Socialists until they try to indoctrinate you.
Just ask a child if everyone deserves food and shelter.

[Dr Gerald Roche @GJosephRoche]

What happens when we lose a language is that people have their human rights violated and their self-determination denied. They experience in justice and are harmed in multiple ways. So much more is at stake than culture, tradition, and knowledge.
https://t.co/6mcfANTkGZ

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

The problem of Labour abandoning socialism and now being the Starmer-Party. #Reform

[MC Squared @mcsquared34]

You can’t become a billionaire on your labor alone, you can only become a billionaire through the systemic exploitation of other people’s labor.

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

When you hear them talk about "meritocracy", remember these words by David Graeber.

[Ali Anwaar @AliBinger]

ایک سرکاری بابو ایک شہر میں آتا ہے ڈیکوریشن کے نام پر فنڈ منظور ہوتا ہے اور پام یا دوسرے exotic plants لگا دیے جاتے ہیں.
پام یہاں کا موسم برداشت نہیں کر پاتے اور مر جاتے.
پھر اگلا سرکاری بابو آتا ہے اور پھر سے یہی کہانی ریپیٹ ہوتی.

[Basharat Issa @BasharatIssa]

The "blinded by the flag" statue in London should be replicated everywhere. If I could do it in Gilgit-Baltistan, this is how it would look like.

The blindness have even ruined the local polo culture and everything that's part of the game.

Image: Google Gemini

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

"Real love, the only kind genuinely worthy of the name, is a kind of dialectical overcoming. It only becomes possible at the point where one comes to understand the full reality of one’s beloved, which necessarily, means encountering even those qualities one finds infuriating, loathsome, or detestable.

For surely, if you know enough about anyone, you will find something in them that you hate. But it’s only when one encounters that, and decides nonetheless to love them anyway, that we can talk of love as an active, redemptive, and powerful force.

Real love can only be love if it conquerors hatred, but not by annihilating but by containing and transcending it, and not just once, but forever."

- David Graeber

[Amalorpavanathan Joseph @AmalJos95950131]

Planting trees is certainly good. But it doesn't create a forest. Existing forests should be aggressively protected. There is NO substitute for a natural forest.

[._amir @caffeinexher]

pakistani banks are actually funny; went to UBL to withdraw 3m from my sister’s acc and first they tried to convince me that i should j open an account w them and when i refused i got treated so poorly. then i went to HBL to deposit the same 3m in my own account and here i didnt wait in the queue, sat in the managers office and he did everything, brought chai, and exchanged number in case i ever want a loan. and i know theyll also treat me like ubl the day i go there to cashout my money.

[Basharat Issa @BasharatIssa]

The year of bullies and cowards ~ Amensty International

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.