Umar Malik

'Duboya mujh ko honay nay.'

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

How have we allowed this sentence to be written

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

The biggest problem is not Western journalists being unable to enter, but the fact that Western media doesn't respect and value Palestinian journalists. My colleagues and I risk our lives every day to report on this genocide . No one knows Gaza like we do, and no one understands the complexity of the situation like we do. If you care about what's happening in Gaza, you should amplify Palestinian voices. We don't need Western journalists to tell our stories; we are capable of telling and reporting on our own stories.

[Urban Sindh Media (karachi) @UrbanMedia_Sup]

Imagine Years of Hard Earned Money by Parents Drowning like this in their Daughter's or Son's Ceremony like this.
#KarachiRain has once again exposed KMC,DHA,Cantonment Board & all civic agencies.They should b made accountable 4 billions of rupees on so called development schems

[Farahnaz Zahidi Moazzam @FarahnazZahidi]

Oh my poor #Karachi. Flooded. Broken. Decrepit. Neglected. No one has been sincere to this economic lifeline of Pakistan. The beautiful rain becomes a hazard and hazard becomes a disaster pretty quickly.May Allah help Karachi's citizens.Because no 1 else will. Period
#KarachiRain

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I rarely praise the Guardian but this is a extraordinary visual investigation of the sheer level of destruction in Gaza:
https://t.co/WkegK6bF5f

Absolutely crystal clear when you look through it that the objective is to render the place utterly inhabitable, and destroy Palestinian civil society. Places destroyed are homes, mosques, schools, hospitals, cemeteries, historical landmarks, supermarkets, etc. Everything that makes up a community.

Complete disconnect from the stated goal of fighting Hamas.

[Hamid Mir حامد میر @HamidMirPAK]

They are Baloch students illegally detained in margalla police station of Islamabad. They r studying in different educational institutions of Islamabad. They went to welcome their sisters & mothers coming from Balochistan Wednesday night. They were arrested.They are not criminals

[Syed Muzammil Shah @SyedMuzammilOFL]

If only you knew how badly you’re missed in today’s Pakistan, Asma.

[Jeremy Higgs @jeremyhiggs]

I was reminded last night that almost every Pakistani in their 30s that I know has already left, or is actively working towards moving. What a colossal failure by previous generations: to have run the country so badly that the most educated in their generation have fled.

[Imran Ahmad Khan @imranahmadkh]

Joyland is now facing a censor block - one week before it is supposed to release in Pakistan.

Please stop this injustice. Let people live. Let them breathe.

#ReleaseJoyland

[Imran Ahmad Khan @imranahmadkh]

Joyland won the Grand Jury prize at Cannes Film Festival - the world’s most prestigious film festival.

It is Pakistan’s official submission to the Oscars and has won at London Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Cairo International Film Festival etc.

[Imran Ahmad Khan @imranahmadkh]

Joyland is a film about a family that lives in Gawalmandi, Lahore.

Our Lahore.

It’s a film about human beings that exist around us in Pakistan.

Our Pakistanis.

It was filmed here - across real locations, with real people.

[mehreenjabbar @mehreenjabbar]

Sarmad’s film #Kamli is beautiful, lyrical and soulful with incredible performances by @SabaQamarActor #SaniaSaeed and @nimrabucha. The cinematography and music compliment and lift this story that takes its time and leaves you shaken. Pls go watch! #khoosatfilms

[/// Luke @mxcaltrz]

While a majority of us think we're immune to the blasphemy law, please note that we are one heated disagreement away from being lynched and smashed to death.

People will chant "gustakh ko jahanum pohancha dia" while your disagreement would be about real estate or some prices.

[Rimmel Mohydin @Rimmel_Mohydin]

No religion asks this of its followers.

[Ammar Rashid @AmmarRashidT]

Hey @ImranKhanPTI do we need any research into why we've degenerated into a society where mobs burn foreigners to death for removing a rightwing fascist party's sticker? Or is this also a result of 'Western' culture destroying our family system?

[Atif Mian @AtifRMian]

When a people rationalize systemic injustice toward the “other”, the real loss is its own

They twist ‘n turn so much to justify the injustice that soon they don’t know up from down, right from wrong

Their society corrodes from the inside, & that’s the ultimate cost of injustice

[Atoms @Atoms]

@SmitaKudaisya @1917oc @sidraqasim

[BBC Talking Movies @BBCTalkMovies]

Caught on camera...This week we look at #Pakistani director #SarmadKhoosat’s new movie, Circus of Life (#ZindagiTamasha), and the controversy it has encountered

[BBC Talking Movies @BBCTalkMovies]

“The controversy around this film I think really also speaks to the kind of dilemmas around tolerance in Pakistan”: @SecKermani on new movie Circus of Life (#ZindagiTamasha) and the controversy it has encountered in #Pakistan since release

[Asim Abbasi @IllicitusProduc]

For me, Zindagi Tamasha is the strongest submission from Pakistan since 2013. Grateful to have been on the committee & to have seen this film, memories of which still haunt me, weeks after.
Kudos to Sarmad and team!