O

Then stand by your glasses steady, we drink in our comrade’s eye, One cup to the dead already, Hurrah for the next that dies. [A retrophile]

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

She is everything I ever wanted... But nothing that she ever wanted to be...

#IronyOfLife

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

@alyayla_ The center of focus

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

@alyayla_ Guessing by the picture, apparently the mobile phone did

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

Feeling old with 368 others

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

Trying to remember my old TDK playlist (workout sessions)
Burning Heart-survivor
Eye of the tiger
In the army now-status quo
Don't bring me down-ELO
Walk of life-dire straits
Final countdown-Europe
I need a hero-Bonnie Tyler
No easy way out-Robert Teper
Danger zone-kenny loggins

[Rabia Akhtar @Rabs_AA]

May 28, 1998. Twenty-eight years on.

I recorded this conversation in 2022, and due to some delay at @voaurdu end, it aired last year. https://t.co/ycEGVtVTQI

I am sharing it today because May 28 is not just a date in Pakistan’s strategic history. It is a reminder of an extraordinary national journey marked by resolve, sacrifice, scientific achievement, and the will to survive in a difficult neighborhood.

Pakistan’s nuclear capability was never about prestige alone. It was born out of a hard security reality, shaped by regional asymmetries, wars, coercive pressures, technology denial regimes, and the repeated lesson that nations must ultimately secure their own sovereignty.

Twenty-eight years later, Pakistan’s nuclear program stands as a symbol of national resilience and strategic restraint. It has helped preserve deterrence, prevented large-scale war, and created space for Pakistan to defend itself despite persistent conventional and technological imbalances.

This journey belongs to the scientists, engineers, policymakers, armed forces, and countless unnamed Pakistanis who carried the burden of national security with quiet commitment.

As Pakistan marks 28 years as a declared nuclear weapons state, the task ahead is not only to celebrate the achievement but to continue thinking seriously about responsibility, restraint, crisis stability, emerging technologies, and the future of deterrence in South Asia.

#Yometakbeer reminds us that sovereignty is not gifted. It is protected, built, and carried forward with clarity, courage, and responsibility.

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

@tweeep_ Karachi is not for beginners

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

@tweeep_ Hitting your thumb while trying to hammer a nail doesn’t qualify you as a carpenter

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

@tweeep_ @ShamaJunejo

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

@tweeep_ @ShamaJunejo I mean what's the need really

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

But this mother's day I no longer have that woman whose presence once gave those words meaning

This year and for years to come those words will remain unspoken

There are losses that time softens, and then there are mothers

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

Happy Mother’s Day

There are those who cherish the celebration of a single day devoted to mothers and others who believe that motherhood is too sacred to be confined to a date on a calendar and that every day belongs to her. I had always found myself inclined toward the latter

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

But now I feel this day at least let's you say a few words which often remain unspoken for the rest of the year

This mother's day I felt an aching need to say a few words of my own

[Rubab @rubabbx]

Did you know the longest winning streak in ALL of professional sports history doesn't belong to Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, or Roger Federer?

It belongs to a boy from Karachi who doctors said should never exercise.
Jahangir Khan. Pakistani squash player. 555 consecutive wins. 5 years. 8 months. Undefeated.
The world forgot to tell his story. We won't. 🇵🇰

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

@Alyhassan959 @my55cents This could've easily made it's way into @DanQayyum article 😁

[Dan Qayyum @DanQayyum]

"The Western imagination files Pakistan under "the Muslim world" and assigns it the visual vocabulary of the Arab Gulf, or under "South Asia" and assigns it the cultural vocabulary of India. Both are wrong. Both flatten a country of 240 million people into someone else's story. This piece is an attempt to tell theirs."

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The Israelis are terrorists. No other word for it.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

American Journalist Abby Martin on her visit to Israel:

The whole world has to isolate this rogue… state. Shame anyone who goes there.

You cannot expect change in a society this far gone.

We’re seeing essentially the fourth Reich today marching forward.

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

Booking Doctor’s appointments in our part of the world is an abstract concept. You don’t really book a time, you book your place in a queue. Your actual turn comes whenever fate, the doctor, and the universe finally agree it’s your moment

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

The Iran war is going so bad for Trump right now he might need to release The Epstein Files as a distraction.

[O @Nostalgic_Grip]

@tweeep_