Live Interactive Webinar Lecture on the poetry of Punjabi Sufi poet Bullah Shah by Manzur Ejaz from Washington DC, Saturday 31 October at 9 PM Pakistan Time. For details on how to joint please send me a direct message.
ارشد ندیم کی کہانی ہمارے اسکولوں کی کتابوں میں شائع ہونی چاہیے کہ کیسےایک بچہ جوغریب گھرانےسےتعلق رکھتاہو،جس کےپاس کوئی وسائل نہ تھا،صرف ایک چیزتھی اوروہ تھا "جزبہ" کچھ کر گزرنےکا اوراس نےکرکےدکھایا۔ارشد کاگولڈمیڈل جیتنےتک کاسفرہمارےبچوں کےلیےسبق ہے
#ArshadNadeem
“But women are not interested in sports”
“But what can sports do for poor people?”
“But what do rural people know about global sports?”
Answer: 🤫
#ArshadNadeem
Stealing/manipulating an election outcome, undermining people’s will & disrespecting millions of voters should be unacceptable.
It is immoral and unconstitutional. The new hybrid plus regime might be a ‘pragmatic’ option for some but it won’t work!
#Elections2024Pakistan
Shocked to hear the very brave rights activist and former parliamentarian @mjdawar was shot in North Waziristan while peacefully protesting the delayed announcement of election results. Fortunately he survived.
What an apt commentary on the sad state of Pakistani democracy today.
Incredible win for PTI, its jailed leader Imran Khan. No other way to describe events. PTI outvoted its opponents, most notably, the engineers. Salute Yasmeen Rashid, Aliya Hamza and others like them who won from their prison cells.
The delay in ECP announcing the election result has had a devastating effect on the voters’ perception of the electoral process.
Clear examples of the overturning of the will of the people in key seats in Lahore, Multan, Peshawar and throughout Karachi—possibly also Islamabad.
A great February 8 election day has been reversed by 48 hours of stupidity and dishonesty.
How to fix this?
1. PTI needs to be allowed to mobilise as a party in parliament—whatever name it adopts or whichever existing party it joins. This will ensure that reserved seats will not be denied to PTI.
2. PPP needs to realise its centrality to a solution for Pakistan—and to use it wisely. Do not respond to provocations and do not take the bait on a minus PTI solution.
3. PML-N needs to consolidate and reflect on how a good leader ends up adopting Aun Chaundhry and how a deeply embedded party loses Sialkot, Faisalabad and Gujranwala. If Maryam has any future, it needs to be built in the opposition.
4. The Army Chief needs to ensure that his decisions are informed by a wider and more representative range than whatever he currently has.
In the midst of polycrisis, election day showed how glorious the country can be when systems are allowed to work as they are supposed to.
Pakistan can no more afford the ugliness that emerges when systems are not allowed to work—as has been the case since voting ended February 8.
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Daylight robbery on the mandate of people of Islamabad is unacceptable. Ali Bukhari & Shoaib Shaheen’s (winning candidates) petitions must be immediately affixed & heard. Delaying their petitions is denying Islamabad’s voice!
The single largest party in this election is the PTI.
It is largest by a significant margin.
And this is not even accounting for wild anomalies in places like Multan, Lahore and Karachi where extraordinary results seem to have been fabricated.
PTI must be allowed to try to form government.
Nawaz Sharif has the capacity for great wisdom. His speech reflects his conciliatory approach.
He needs to follow his own example during the charter of democracy and during the 7th NFC award in 2010. He must shun the allure of forming an unpopular government.
Remember: any government that does not include PTI MNAs will be unpopular.
What sort of a victory speech is this Nawaz Sharif saheb? Your party has evidently lost the election. Accept defeat gracefully and let the PTI backed independents — a larger bloc in National Assembly — form the government. People’s mandate despite all manipulation is clear.
The establishment should be considered having gone mad if they try to change results at this stage. Governance and policy making won’t be easy if a government of GHQ’s choice is brought.
کل شام پانچ بجے پولنگ ختم ہوئی 18 گھنٹے گذر گئے مکمل انتخابی نتائج نہیں آئے آج صبح 10 بجے تک نتائج سامنے لانا الیکشن کمیشن کی ذمہ داری تھی الیکشن کمیشن مکمل طور پر ناکام ہو چکا ہے پوری دنیا میں پاکستان کو بدنام کرنے کا ذمہ دار کون ہے؟ #Election2024
ابھی تک کے نتائج کو دیکھ کر ویسے خیال آ رہا ہے
کون کہتا ہے کہ پارٹی سے انتخابی نشان چھینے جانے سے عوام ووٹ کے آئینی حق سے محروم ہو جاتی ہے۔ الیکشن کمیشن اور سپریم کورٹ کا فیصلہ بادی النظر میں درست تھا۔
سوال: اگر کسی پارٹی کو انتخابی نشان سے محروم کرنے سے بھی کوئی فرق نہیں پڑتا تو پھر ایسی سزا کا فائدہ؟
اِسکی جگہ پارٹی پر پابندی اور اِسکی حمایت کے دعویدار تمام امیدواروں کے لئیے جیل کی سزا مقرر ہونی چاہئیے تاکہ یہ الیکشن ہی نہ لڑ سکیں۔ بلکہ آزاد امیدواروں پر بھی الیکشن لڑنے پر پابندی لگا دینی چاہئیے۔
لگتا ہے آئیندہ الیکشن میں بڑی جماعتوں کے امیدوار بھی آزاد الیکشن لڑنے کو ترجیح دینگے۔ سیاسی جماعتوں اور انکے انتخابی نشانات کا اللہ ہی حافظ
کبھی کبھی جہیز کا سامان بھی کام آ جاتا ہے