Sunjay Dutt enters the fray in #Dhurandhar and a familiar tune immediately starts playing – a song that has won hearts for nearly 40 years now: Hawa Hawa. Today we tell you about the fascinating yet tragic story of its OG creator. 1/20
Please read this brilliant article by Zorain Nizamani, a PhD student at the University of Arkansas, in which he bluntly tells Pakistan’s ruling elite that Gen Z is no longer falling for their attempts to manipulate and control narratives.
Not surprisingly, this article is no longer accessible through the Express Tribune’s digital edition—exactly the kind of censorship Zorain talks about.
He is right. It really is over for those who think they can continue to get away with these crude tactics.
“You can orchestrate all the wars you want; Gen Z will make memes out of it.
Censor all the mainstream media, Gen Z will jump to platforms like Rumble, YouTube and Discord to voice their opinions. Boomers, you cannot censor thoughts now. Gone are the days when you could fool the people. No one's being fooled anymore”
I saw @mosharrafzaidi interview with @SkyYaldaHakim and here are my takeaways:
1. Mosharraf came prepared. Yalda, for once, was not. He dominated the conversation because he had facts that deflated her basic point at the very start: UN rapporteur report. She never recovered from his first salvo.
2. Mosharraf came across as confident, unlike most govt spokesmen who have been on her show, and he used his fluency and wit to ensure that he steered the conversation, and not her.
3. Proof of her being slightly unnerved was her question to him about permission to interview Imran Khan if she came to Pakistan. That’s not a question worthy of someone of her standing, knowing well that the guest would have a strong response via jail laws (applicable in most countries.
4. Yalda could have pressed on about the issue of Khan being kept in isolation. Technically speaking isolation and meetings with family can go together. But once Mosharraf de-weaponised her with stats of meetings Khan has had, Yalda lost the momentum of her argument.
5. Bringing in Mosharraf tweets from the past was supposed to be a “gotcha” moment. It didn’t turn out that way. It was a shallow approach to a far serious issue of Khan and his predicament with the present system. She seemed petty.
Final Point: I have no doubt in saying that Mosharraf Zaidi owned Yalda Hakim. Perhaps she had got used to inarticulate people from the govt bumbling in front of her. This time, she lost the plot - and the conversation.
hello, PAF! you guys are good, like damn good! possibly because you don't do 26th and the rest of the bullshit; you do your professional work and you do it very well. salute to you. Pakistan owes you; we owe you.