Muhammad Arif

|Former lecturer of English, GCU, Lahore| Former lecturer of English, HED, KP| PAS (Provincial Administrative Service-06. KP|Civil Servant|

[Muhammad Arif @HarfeArif]

Promoting Tourism In KP's Merged Districts: Lessons From Spin Ghar Summer Festivals https://t.co/cjxVBaSklZ
My article on the importance of Event Tourism in the unexplored picnic spots of district Kurram.

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ARTSPEAK: IN SEARCH OF PEACE Zindagi ke kuchh din yun bhi guzaarein ke nafratein tamaam hon aur mohabbaton ka qayaam hohttps://www.dawn.com/news/2016576

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GOVERNANCE: PROTECTING PAKISTAN’S PERSONAL DATA https://t.co/5IUcvZT5tZ

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Itnay ma’anoos sayyaad se ho gaye,
ab rehai milleygi toh marr jayen gey.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.”

― Carl Jung

[Sophia Proneikos @Pergament_F]

"The ability to intelligently fill your free time is the highest degree of personal culture."
Bertrand Russell

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“The climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination. Culture generates desires, for certain kinds of gardens and dwellings- that are among the principal drivers of the carbon economy”
(The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh)

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Awidara, Central Kurram, District Kurram, KP.

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https://t.co/dyvVwc4cVi
Dear Friends,
Sharing the link to my published research paper above.

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@TurgayEvren1 Istanbul, for sure.

[Rubab @rubabbx]

Dawn newspaper told her to stick to cooking and child-rearing.

She built her own magazine instead.

And used it to bring down a military dictator.

Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah. Born December 1918 in Calcutta. Daughter of Syed Wajid Ali, a Cambridge-educated writer who translated Tagore into English and Iqbal into Bengali. A family that breathed literature.

She published her first poem in The Illustrated Weekly of India in 1933 at age 15. At 18 she won a poetry competition in England's Daily Mirror.

After partition she moved to Karachi with her husband and began writing a column for Dawn. She became Pakistan's first female political commentator. Her editor let her write on the condition she stuck to feminine matters.

She wrote about politics anyway.

In 1951 the Dawn editor sent her a letter. It is still in the archives.

Dear Mrs. Hamidullah. You will have noticed that we could not use your article last week. The reason was that it dealt with problems other than feminine.

She read the letter. Resigned. And in 1952 founded her own magazine.

The Mirror.

Pakistan's first female editor and publisher. Her own press. Her own voice. No editor to answer to.

In 1955 she became the first woman to address Al-Azhar University in Cairo. One of the oldest universities on earth. She spoke about Kashmir. The audience was shocked. Thrilled. Divided.

She did not care.

In 1957 she published a ferocious editorial defending Prime Minister Suhrawardy after Iskander Mirza forced him out. The government banned the Mirror for six months. Advised her to apologise.

She took them to the Supreme Court instead.

She won. First woman journalist in Pakistan to successfully challenge press censorship in court.

In October 1962 she published Please Mr. President. An open letter to Ayub Khan about the blood staining Pakistan's streets after student protests. She printed his photo upside down as a sign of protest.

Ayub Khan called her rashly emotional. Then replied publicly to her letter. Because even he knew she could not be ignored.

The Mirror was banned twice. Government advertising was withdrawn. She kept publishing.

In 1969 she reprinted Please Mr. President alongside a new editorial. No, thank you, Sir. Pakistan will continue to erupt as long as you remain its President.

Ayub Khan abdicated months later.

A street in Karachi is named after her. Zaibunnisa Street. Previously called Elphinstone Street. Named by the British. Renamed for a woman who spent her life defying exactly their kind of power.

She died September 10, 2000.

The editor who told her to write about cooking accidentally created Pakistan's most fearless journalist.

Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah.

Pakistan Zindabad. 🇵🇰

[Sohail Abid @sohailabid]

صحن اور ورانڈے کی جگہ کار پورچ نے لی اور کھلی جگہ سے زندگی رخصت ہو کر کمروں میں منتقل ہو گئی۔ نتیجہ سب کو پتا ہے۔

(کراچی کا ایک گھر)

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NON-FICTION: Ordinary lives, uncomfortable lessons https://t.co/aGWEKvB0BH

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@readswithravi My current favorite book is: The Vegetarian by Han Kang.

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یہ جو خواہشوں کا پرند ہے
اسے موسموں سے غرض نہیں
یہ اُڑے گا اپنی ہی موج میں
اسے آب دے یا سراب دے

کبھی یوں بھی ہو تیرے روبرو
میں نظر ملا کے یہ کہہ سکوں
میری خواہشوں کا شمار کر
میری حسرتوں کا جواب دے

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Kaizen: A Japanese concept of improving continuously.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.”

— Edmund Burke

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“When there are so many knowledgeable people all around us, why do we still fail to achieve our goals?”
A question asked by an Orakzai tribal elder.

[Mahmood Tariq Awan @PMScivilservant]

I think every one, irrespective of his profession, should at least read a few books on philosophy.

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This showed me tat our people r full of dedication & initiative, they only need to be heard, trusted, & treated as partners. The role of a civil servant is not to be a master of the people, but to listen, facilitate, & work alongside them. 3/3

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Today reinforced a lesson I will always carry: when civil servants genuinely listen to people and involve them in solving their own problems, extraordinary things happen. 1/3

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A public waiting area tat had ben lying unused was revived after I discussed it with da local chairman & a few young people, who nt only identified da right location & also took full ownership of da installation. Drivers, da Bus Adda Munshi, & officials frm local communities 2/3