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[Barrister Abuzar Salman Niazi @SalmanKNiazi1]

PPP’s version of “democracy” is perhaps the greatest political irony of our time. They love to present themselves as enlightened, progressive, liberal and democratic but only in speeches, seminars and books. In practice, look at what Faisal Kundi is doing today and look at Bilawal Zardari’s role in the 26th and 27th Amendments. When the choice is between democratic principles and the preservation of power, the principles conveniently disappear and brute force takes their place. Their liberalism is for the podium, their progressivism for the press release and their democracy for as long as it serves them. In reality, the PPP has perfected the art of preaching democracy while repeatedly standing on the wrong side of it

[Najam @MeinNajam]

@MushtaqGhaniPTI @ZubairNiaziPAS MPA sahab apni constituency ko bhi dekh len koi. Pooray shehr mein infrastructure development itni rare hai k lagta he nai hai koi government mojood ho

[shah. @xzydc]

pakistani intelligentsia went from “he snorts cocaine, he won’t last a day in jail” to “why doesn’t he just do a deal with the army and leave prison”

You can’t make this shit up. 🤣

[Najam @MeinNajam]

@bin_zeshan Han understandable. Glad you got a better opportunity

[Najam @MeinNajam]

@salarzai_ The city has lost so much of its greenery. Constructon is out of control and the local govt seems like a participant in the cuttnig of trees. No planning or vision whatsoever

[Dr Arslan Khalid @arslankhalid_m]

Pakistan is mediating peace talks between the US and Iran in Islamabad, playing its part to save the world from a potential world war, and all that the government-sponsored ‘patwarkhana’ is doing is taking jibes at PTI. This is such an amazing opportunity to tell the world about Pakistan, its potential, its people, and its history of playing peace roles on so many occasions in the last 50 years, but instead, their whole focus of conversation is on PTI.

In 2020 Pakistan played a key diplomatic and logistical role in the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, a role that was recognized by President Trump himself. I don't remember PTI people at that time wasting time taking jibes at the opposition; instead, they focused on telling the world how Pakistan had once again helped save it from a grave threat of regional fallout.

If you really lack ideas, just give prompts to AI asking for ideas, but stop embarrassing yourself by showing such insecurities.

[Haroon @ThisHaroon]

insafians making memes and being happy that Pakistan getting recognition meanwhile patwaris can't think beyond imran khan, for them every single tweet starts from Imran Khan and ends at imran khan, this level of obsession can't be explained.

[Mariam @MariamHansi]

Beautifying roads with lights isn’t taraqi. Taraqi is free, quality education, healthcare, basic utilities, freedom of speech, safety, fair judiciary, unbiased police and equal law for all.
Stop mistaking cosmetic upgrades for real progress, jahilon.

[brief. @brief_pk]

The “five‑for‑fifty” idea sounds attractive, grow per‑capita income 5% a year for 50 years and Pakistan finally meets the global average. The math is fine. The context is not.

Sustaining 5% per‑capita growth for half a century is a civilizational commitment. It assumes a state that protects property, enforces contracts, treats investors predictably, and disciplines its own elites through law, not deals. Pakistan’s lived reality is the opposite: extra‑constitutional power centres, erratic regulation, selective taxation, and a policy machine tuned to serve narrow coalitions. A numerical goal that presumes a high‑trust, rules‑based order while leaving that order untouched is closer to a slogan than a plan.

The concept also treats economic outcomes as though they were the product of technical mistakes. They are not. Taxing electricity instead of land, locking in expensive dollar power plants, keeping the rupee overvalued, pushing real‑estate bubbles and headline “housing schemes” these are not random errors, they are the rational choices of a system built around extraction. Without altering who benefits from policy, any five‑for‑fifty roadmap is just fresh paper for the same interests to capture.

Finally, genuine 5% per‑capita growth means boring, unglamorous grind, functioning schools and clinics, cheap and reliable energy, export‑oriented industry, enforceable contracts, and development budgets that survive every crisis. In Pakistan, these are precisely the items sacrificed whenever the system comes under stress. In that setting, five‑for‑fifty becomes a comforting fantasy, numerically elegant, politically hollow, and structurally disconnected from the way power actually works.

[db. @thelahorewala]

Such proposals are usually put into these drafts, with the expectation that there would be an uproar against it (even though this is a norm for most countries).

During the parliamentary debate, the politicians and establishment can then pretend to listen to “public criticism” by removing it.

Meanwhile the rest of the Amendment—which includes dismantling an independent higher Judiciary—would stay as it is.

[Najam @MeinNajam]

Since when did we start acting like colonial masters

[Hussain Nadim @HNadim87]

Good riddance, but replacing Gandapur with 'xyz' doesn't change a thing except for momentary relief and some short-lived hope for the people.

Imran Khan is shying away from doing what absolutely needs to be done: Dismantling PTI as a political party, and reorganising it as an organic decentralized civil rights movement.

I say this because, the security establishment (think of it as a virus) relies on centralised structures (host) to exert control and influence over the political space. The way to fight back and flush them out of the system is by depriving them any structure to operate in.

Change the battleground and go entirely off script; they are not trained to operate outside of structures and certainties. Otherwise the script will play on repeat.

[ICBSG | اللجنة الدولية لكسر الحصار عن غزة @ICBSOFGAZA]

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[Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan | سینیٹر مشتاق احمد خان @SenatorMushtaq]

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کشتیوں کو ساؤنڈ بموں، دھماکہ خیز فلیئرز سے نشانہ بنایا گیا اور مشتبہ کیمیائی مادوں سے چھڑکاؤ کیا گیا۔
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@gbsumudflotilla
@Pak_PalForum

[Najam @MeinNajam]

Was helping host a quiz competition. There was a picture round and someone guessed the photo of Abida Parveen as Chahat Fateh Ali Khan 😭

[حلا @Levantinette]

The famine in Gaza is as Egyptian as it is Israeli & American

[missfalasteenia @missfalsteenia]

balling my eyes out, never forget the name hind rajab.

[Najam @MeinNajam]

@chaiiiguevara @ammaralijan You can separate the two when the sugar mafia is actually the one sitting in the govt. Bring truly representative governments. Difficult to achieve in current climate? Yes. But why is it not the end goal? And if it is, the first step is to point the blame where it lies