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[Khurram Iqbal @khurram143]

اسلام آباد کے اتوار بازار کے قریب درخت سے لٹکتی طالبہ کی لاش نے نظام کو ہلا دیا۔��!!

اسلام آباد میں کل ایک دردناک واقعہ پیش آیا، اسلامک یونیورسٹی کی طالبہ کی زندگی ایک نوسرباز ایجنٹ کی بھینٹ چڑھ گئی، خبر کے مطابق جی ٹین سیکٹر کی رہائشی طالبہ اعلیٰ تعلیم کیلئے امریکہ جانا چاہتی تھی، ایک ایجنٹ کو 50 لاکھ ��وپے دیئے کہ دستاویزات تیار کر دو، ایجنٹ نے جعلی دستاویزات تھما کر اُس لڑکی کے خواب چکنا چور کر دیئے، شدید ذہنی دبائو نے لڑکی کو انتہائی قدم اٹھانے پر مجبور کر دیا اور اُس نے اتوار بازار کے قریب درخت کے ساتھ اپنے ہی دوپٹے کو پھندہ بنایا اور اُس کے ساتھ جھول گئی، بتایا جا رہا ہے کہ طالبہ نے بی ایس کیا تھا اور اب ہاورڈ یونیورسٹی سے ایم ایس کرنے کی خواہشمند تھی، آہ، ماں باپ کی کُل کمائی، چاہے وہ رقم تھی یا بیٹی کی شکل میں اُمید، سب ختم ہو گیا، ایک معصوم جان چلی گئی، ذمے دار کون ہے؟، اِن نوسرباز ایجنٹوں کو کون لگام ڈالے گا؟، جہاں یہ پاکستانی حکومت کیلئے ایک ٹیسٹ کیس بن گیا ہے، وہیں امریکی سفارتخانے کو بھی چاہئے کہ وہ امریکہ میں پڑھنے کے خواہشمند پاکستانی طلبہ کیلئے اسٹوڈنٹ ��یزہ پراسس کو اتنا آسان بنا دے کہ طلبہ ایسے فراڈیئے ایجنٹوں کے چنگل میں نہ آ سکیں اور اپنی زندگیاں یوں درختوں سے لٹک کر ختم نہ کریں، وہ خود دستاویزات کی تیاری باآسانی کر سکیں اور ویزہ کیس خود اپلائی کر سکیں، اللہ اُس لڑکی کو غریقِ رحمت کرے اور اُس کے ماں باپ کو صبر دے۔

[Eight 'O Four.. @Rashid1404]

Shahbaz Sharif feels like saying...

[Pehn Di Siri @PehnDiSiri]

Chachu whenever he sees Hafiz sb or Donald Trump

[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

Currently, my Aunties are still abducted. Family and lawyers have received no update on how they are, nor why they are incarcerated. Concerning my father, there is complete silence.

My brother and I have had no contact with him for more than six months. We do not even know the true state of his health.

Meanwhile, thousands of Pakistanis are peacefully taking to the streets to protest against his illegal and politically motivated imprisonment.

However, the people of Pakistan have not given up. No barricade, intimidation or repression can muzzle the people’s demand for justice and their democratic right to be heard.

There can be no lasting peace or stability while their democratic will is suppressed and their chosen leader remains behind bars.

[zibs @CivicTakes]

@KMarwatov southasian men are built like pig and act like one.

[Waqas @worqas]

The World Bank has today reported that Pakistan is home to nearly half of the poorest people living in the MENAAP region, which is the only region in the world where poverty remains above pre-pandemic levels. Just to be clear, in a region that includes Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Libya, Lebanon and Pakistan Army’s new enemies, Yemen and Afghanistan, it is PAKISTAN that is the primary driver of extreme poverty.

Now remember that the man who has presided over this economic debacle recently took not one, but two, aircraft to London on a 9-day private visit. PM @CMShehbaz did not just take along a 40-member official entourage, he also offered a free ride to his son Suleman Shehbaz and his family. The 40-member official entourage stayed 9 days at Churchill Hotel in one of London’s most expensive areas.

The PM had ostensibly left Pakistan on 17 September to attend the UN General Assembly in New York. He returned to Pakistan on 29 September. In between he spent more days in London (9) than he did in New York (4). His only “official” engagement in London came on the ninth and last day of his stay when he met the Rothschilds and celebrated...wait for it...yet more money that Pakistan had BORROWED from the international bond markets at the London stock exchange (at the junk bond rates of 7.5% to 8.5%).

Even if you knew nothing about the Form 47 elections in 2024 or the fact that Mr. Sharif is the civilian figurehead of the most despised military regime in Pakistan’s history (no mean achievement in itself!), the PM’s own conduct leaves nothing to the imagination. He doesn’t give a flying f*** about what all this looks like because he knows he is not answerable to the people of Pakistan.

In any country, leave alone a debt-ridden economic basket case like Pakistan, the prime minister’s all expenses-paid 9-day holiday in London along with family and hangers-on would have been a national scandal.

Sir @TararAttaullah you have it easy.

[Yousuf Nazar @YousufNazar]

Pakistan is home to "about 48 percent" of the extreme poor in a region stretching from Morocco to Afghanistan. That is the World Bank's verdict in its October 2026 MENAAP Economic Update, and it indicts every government Pakistan has had since 2018.

Between 2018/19 and 2024/25, Pakistan's $3-a-day poverty rate rose by 6.4 percentage points. Of all the World Bank's regions, the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan is "the only region in which poverty remains above pre-pandemic levels." The Bank says the increase "was driven primarily by a rise in poverty in Pakistan."

This happened while the economy grew. The Bank expects real GDP per capita to "rise further above 2019 levels." When output grows and poverty rises anyway, that is not bad luck. The system is rigged. The gains go to the top, and the bottom pays for the adjustment: inflation reached "about 11 percent by midyear" and petrol prices rose "40 percent or higher."

The protected business class barely innovates. Only 3 percent of Pakistani firms report product innovation and 1 percent process innovation, "against a lower-middle-income peer average of 23 percent and 14 percent." Firms that profit from protection and patronage don't need to.

Islamabad talks of "AI sovereignty," yet "only half of grade 5 students in Pakistan can read a simple story in Pashto, Sindhi, or Urdu."

Three governments and successive IMF programmes later, the verdict stands. Pakistan does not lack resources. It lacks a state that works for its people. https://t.co/4bNSG3NUyf

[سمیرا @SumairaJajja]

Who is getting an award for this one?

'Pakistan drives regional rise in poverty levels'

48% of ‘extremely poor population’ from Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan-Pakistan (MENAAP) region are in Pakistan, says the World Bank.

https://t.co/f6uhqrVfBg

[🇷🇸 @nafasamah]

people gotta stop taunting mahirah she's not ruining this project she's actually quite impressive in this

[deeja✯⁠ @deejasays]

Imagine having 4 years of your life taken away from you. You’re legitimate PM of this country, your party won 2/3 majority, yet you’re treated worse than the worst. Your entire family targeted, your sisters & nephews abducted; mulk key naam per kanjarkhana khula hua hai.

[daisy @thearcherr_]

the fact that IK was 70 when he was illegally imprisoned and he’s 74 today….we should all hang our heads in shame

[αdil @ixadilx]

When history is written about how India's relationship with Israel was normalised while Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians, it will include Shah Rukh Khan too and the implicit role he played in it.

[zibs @CivicTakes]

@mutton2pyaza doomscrolling

[zibs @CivicTakes]

@AainaSaaf @mehrubawan no wonder why their PR is so fuckedup

[Aaina Saaf @AainaSaaf]

‘Human rights activist’ @mehrubawan is senior strategist for regime PR company Dominion Strategies. Just follow the money.

[Zaaru 🍟 @zaaruchipswaala]

An idiot's idea of a smart person.
And this is the thing that's very much repeatedly endorsed by more of the boomer and pro establishment class now a days... the particular idea that morality should be considered subjective in international relations while state should be considered as a rational actor... which can't be further from the truth in Pakistan's context.
How can state or it's policies considered rational while the state fluctuates its own politics every few years.
Same state policies favored the savage Taliban rule in Afghanistan and now the same state has declared war on the same Taliban and many other examples of fluctuation like that.
Ireland as a country has no direct dealings with Palestine but yet it repeatedly and many other countries have exhibited support for Palestine mainly for morality.
In a world like this, calling state a rational actor and referring to morality as subjective doesn't make sense to me.
I'd say the foundations of democracy dictate that's state should form policies that are according to will of the people and not create policies on its own and subject people to those policies by force.

[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

I’ve been instructed to call on the public not to attempt to march or protest nearby Adiala jail on 27 March. I’ve heard from sources that this may be used as an excuse for the establishment to launch a “counter” assault on the jail (Which my father is being held in), which could endanger his life. Please do not give them any reasons for “accidents” to happen to my father during the protest.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

I made a map of the 77 countries that participated in a mass walkout at the United Nations before Benjamin Netanyahu's speech.

What do you notice?

[سمیرا @SumairaJajja]

Kisi Pakistani hukmaraan mein sharam aur insaniyat ho to iss Afghan khatoon ko Pakistani nationality dey dein aur maafi mangay. If George Fulton can be given Pakistani passport after spending a few months presenting a TV show, why can't this lady and her family be accommodated?

[Student Biryani @JaanwarNeutral]

Har qism kay marasi aur kanjarpan main, they are second to none.