Muzzammil Saleem

Activist.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Western journalists are hiding these ongoing crimes.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The Zionists have murdered 8 kids in Gaza today.

8 children

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Footage shows blast victims hurried into a hospital in northwestern Pakistan, after a suicide bombing at a police station in Kabal near the Afghan border killed at least 14 people.

Crowds of people had been protesting nearby when the bomb exploded.

[Miftah Ismail @MiftahIsmail]

In the year 2000, Pakistan’s per capita GDP, at purchasing power parity, was $2880, higher than India’s at $2010 and Bangladesh at $1620. We were 43% richer than an average Indian and 77% richer than an average Bangladeshi. Today we are at $6480, Bangladesh at $9180 and India at $12,560. So an Indian is 94% is richer than us and an average Bangladeshi is 42% richer than us. This is the most important story of our national governance system over the last 26 years.

In the last 4 years we have taken debt of Rs 40,000 billion. In the first 75 years we took debt of Rs 45,000 bn. Our tax revenues have doubled over the last four years and yet people today are poorer than in 2014/15 and 2018/19. 29% Pakistanis are poor (with monthly resources of less than Rs 8485). We eat less of all commodities, including atta and rice, meaning Pakistanis are going hungry. Of course we spend over Rs 400 crore to run the PM house and the President house.

Over this period we have seen Gen Musharraf, President Zardari, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan and Mian Shehbaz Sharif at the helm, along with a few caretakers. We have seen military, civilian and hybrid governments. What we have not seen is progress. None.

Education: 39% or over 2 crore 60 lakh kids are out of school. And a majority of kids in school cannot read, write or do arithmetic at their class level. Our education system is failing our kids and we are just spectators at this dismal state of affairs. Is there anyway a nation can develop without its kids being educated? Also Sindh govt just released billions in media ads.

Health: 7500 kids have been infected in Pakistan with HIV (that causes AIDS). Mostly due to used needles and unscreened blood. Pakistan has the second highest neonatal mortality rate in the world, worse than South Sudan, Eritrea and Chad. 40% of our children are stunted. 42% of our women have iron deficiency. 1 in 5 people in the world with Hepatitis is a Pakistani. Also Punjab govt recently bought a Rs 1100 crore plane and 4 Mercedes cars for over Rs 100 crore.

Our provinces are under civilian control since 2008. The NFC making them flush with cash came in 2009. The 18th amendment giving them new authorities came in 2010. But there isn’t a Provincial Finance Award in a single province. No political party (PTI, PPP or Noon) has established empowered local government. They won’t let go of power and cash.

Our system of governance has failed and failed completely. Awaam Pakistan party has been saying it from the day the party started.

Where do we go from here.
Empowered, federally financed and constitutionally protected LGs. Failing which smaller provinces. But now. We cannot afford to wait forever.

Direct elections to all executive offices in local governments and provinces. Essential for breaking the hold of fossilised political parties.

Reform of NFC. School vouchers for all poor kids. Forming of school boards with hiring and firing powers all in govt schools composing of parents and officials. Badly run govt hospitals to be transferred to trusts and govt to keep funding at current levels. Ending of lifetime employment for bureaucrats. You work, you stay. Or go home. No ghost workers or teachers.

Reduce the size of government. Move to economically efficient way of pricing power and gas so they become cheaper.

But parties that are part of the problem and beneficiaries of the system will not want to change. So they need to be removed from the govt. They weren’t fairly elected anyway.

National reconciliation.

Continuous and major reforms.

Otherwise our relative decline will continue. Hunger and illiteracy will become more widespread.

[Ali @_someone_110]

Imam Kadhim (as):

Whoever does not reflect on their actions every day is not one of us. If they have done good, they should ask Allah to help them do more good and thank Him for it. And if they have done wrong, they should ask Allah for forgiveness and repent.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨🇮🇱 CONFIRMED: New leaked documents from Declassified UK exposed that the Israeli military is not “Israeli”

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Zionists are genocidal monsters.

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

The bigger reason for Donald Trump cancelling an attack on Iran is the risk of losing control of the conflict.

U.S. missile stockpiles are under pressure. Inventory of Patriot interceptors has fallen from 2,200 before the war to fewer than 827, and THAAD missiles from 452 to fewer than 278.

A strike on Iran could quickly trigger a wider regional war involving multiple actors, from Lebanon and Gaza, to the Houthis in Yemen and place additional pressure on Saudi Arabia.

Washington no longer as the realistic ability to sustain a wider conflict.

[Soureh 🟩☫🟥 @Soureh_design2]

My beautiful Esfahan, I wouldn't trade it for the world

[Blunt @Shinamuller]

Professor Marandi said it straight. We are not Egypt. We are not Pakistan.
And he was right. Egypt fought Israel once and then settled under the American umbrella. Pakistan built its own nuclear deterrent under sanctions, a real achievement. Yet today both still feel the heavy hand of Western pressure.
Iran is different. This is a nation of nearly ninety million people, not some tiny isolated outpost. For half a century the most powerful empire on earth has tried to crush it with sanctions. And still Iran stands.
Look at the numbers. Iran graduates more than two hundred and thirty thousand engineers every single year. That is more than France and Germany combined. While the United States still has no universal health system, Iran built one that reaches almost its entire population, from the big cities to the smallest villages. Childhood vaccination rates sit near one hundred percent. Life expectancy matches countries far richer. They produce ninety-seven percent of their own medicines. They made their own COVID vaccines when the world tried to lock them out. Their engineers reverse-engineered German gas turbines and now ship them to Russia. They build more cars than Britain. They launch their own satellites. They rank among the top nations in nanotechnology and biotechnology. They created a national internet network so they would never be fully dependent on outside cables.
They have the knowledge, roughly eighty percent of what is needed, to build a nuclear bomb. Yet they choose not to. One reason is principle. They see it as a line that should not be crossed. Another is wisdom. If Iran crossed that line, every Gulf capital would demand the same. A country with near-universal literacy and hundreds of thousands of engineers could do it. They simply refuse.
This is not propaganda. This is what happens when a people decide to survive on their own terms. They took in millions of Afghan refugees when times were hard. They cut oil to apartheid South Africa and stood with Mandela. They sent weapons and trainers to the Bosnians when the world looked away.
The West has spent decades painting Iran as nothing but a threat. That story is incomplete. Iran is also a country that turned isolation into innovation, sanctions into self-reliance, and pressure into scientific progress.
If this planet is going to survive, we need more of that spirit. Not more wars. Not more endless suspicion. We need nations that compete in knowledge, in health, in human dignity, and in the quiet strength of standing on their own feet.
Iran is not perfect. No country is. But it has shown that a large nation under maximum pressure can still educate its people, heal its people, and build its own future. That is a lesson worth studying, not a story worth burying.

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

LIVE FOOTAGE: IDF soldiers throw grenades over the West Bank border to kill children and women.

How is this not considered terrorism?

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🚨BREAKING: Clashes Erupt Between The Yemeni Armed Forces & Saudi-Proxies

[Sayed Z Bukhari @sayedzbukhari]

If it’s true that Tabish Hashmi has been removed from Hasna Mana Hai, it only further exposes the insecurity & narrow-mindedness of those ruling Pakistan today. His video was spot on. It was respectful, factual, and offensive to no one. A little thicker skin would go a long way. Well done, @Tab_Hash_Me, for standing up for our Kashmiri brothers and sisters.
Watch the video for yourself and decide.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The "Saudi-led coalition" won't lift a finger against the Zionist regime. Instead, it will attempt to target the Yemeni people who supported Gaza.

All have been exposed.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING: This is Gaza right now.

Ceasefire? What ceasefire?

Israel is still raining bombs on Gaza.
Israel is still exterminating Palestinians.
Israel is still destroying what remains.

The genocide has never stopped.

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🚨BREAKING: Israel Carries Out A Massive Bombing Campaign In Gaza’s Rafah

They are demolishing more civilian buildings.

This escalation comes right as Hamas agrees to a disarmament roadmap.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Genocidal systems do not survive by force alone.

This is the most important sentence.

Because it means the system needs you.

Not your gun. Not your vote, necessarily.

Your perception.

It needs you to experience the bombing of a hospital as a "tragic mistake" rather than a war crime.

It needs you to experience the death of a child in Gaza as "sad but complicated" rather than the direct consequence of a funded, armed, diplomatically protected military policy.

It needs you to experience poverty in former colonies as a "development challenge" rather than an ongoing extraction.

It needs you to feel the distance between yourself and those deaths as natural, a fact of geography and culture, rather than as a manufactured moral boundary maintained by editorial decisions, political language, and the careful architecture of whose suffering gets a name and whose gets a statistic.

The moment you stop experiencing it as background noise, you become a problem for the system.

Not a big problem.

One person seeing clearly is not a revolution.

But a population that sees clearly is.

Which is why so much effort, so much money, so much institutional energy goes into managing perception.

The weapons are the obvious part.

The part that takes real genius, dark, studied, generational genius, is convincing the people who are not being bombed that the bombing is "necessary," "proportionate," and conducted with the "deepest regret" by people who had "no other choice."

They have been doing it for five hundred years.

They are very good at it.

And the first act of resistance is simply this:

Seeing it.

Naming it.

Refusing the background.

[Mir Mohammad Alikhan @MirMAKOfficial]

یہ سُنیں۔

پاکستان کے بجلی گھروں نے پچھلے فقط پانچ سالوں میں کیپیسیٹی پیمنٹ کی مد میں بجلی بناۓ بغیر حکومت سے 7,200 ارب روپے لے لئیے۔

7,200 ارب روپے کا مطلب ہے تقریباً 28 ارب ڈالر۔

اور ہم نے آئ ایم ایف سے بھیک میں 7 ارب ڈالر لیا ہوا ہے۔ یعنی جو آئ ایم ایف سے لیا ہے فقط پچھلے پانچ سالوں میں اُس کا چار گُنا زیادہ چوروں کو بانٹ دیا ہے۔

سو نئے صوبے بنا لو۔ پچاس نئے لیڈر لے آؤ۔ پوری قوم کو جیل میں ڈال دو۔ کبھی کچھ نہیں ٹھیک ہوگا جب تک نظام نہیں ٹھیک ہوگا۔

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

Did someone ban them from raping Palestinian detainees?

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

The Palestinian spirit cannot be extinguished