To civil society, journalists, and state officials:
I am writing as a grieving wife, seeking the immediate and lawful release of my husband, Muhammad Saad.
At approximately 3:30 AM this Monday, 12–13 masked men with guns forcibly entered our home and took him away without presenting any warrant or lawful authority. This was an unlawful deprivation of liberty and a direct violation of due process.
Only after legal pressure did personnel within CTD register an FIR on laughable grounds. This post facto action raises serious concerns of mala fide intent and abuse of process, where the law is invoked after the fact to justify an illegal act.
Saad is a journalist, researcher, and Political Science scholar. His work engages with complex subjects, including Balochistan, Kashmir, and international affairs. He has interviewed recognised public figures such as Former Prime Minister Anwar ul Haq Kakar, as well as senior journalists Sohail Warraich and Hamid Mir, and has introduced major international voices to Pakistan’s media space.
More importantly, Saad has worked with state institutions when called upon, contributing to areas aligned with the national interest. He was vetted, cleared, and entrusted by the State. Today, that same individual is being subjected to coercive action by its functionaries.
This contradiction is not incidental but structural.
If individuals who have been vetted and trusted by the state can be subjected to arbitrary detention and retrospective criminalisation, then the question is unavoidable: on what basis does the state expect trust from its citizens?
The actions of certain personnel within CTD constitute a clear overreach of authority. Powers granted for public safety cannot be exercised in violation of constitutional safeguards, including the inviolability of the home and the right to due process. The law does not permit enforced taking into custody followed by procedural reconstruction.
Saad has never engaged with any proscribed material nor been involved in any unlawful activity. His life and work have remained within the bounds of law and intellectual inquiry.
I call upon civil society, the media, and responsible state authorities to take immediate cognisance of this case. Ensure due process. Examine the legality of the initial detention. Hold those responsible accountable. And ensure his safe and immediate release.
This is not just about one individual. It is about law and dignity. It is about giving hope to others who have worked for the state and Pakistan whenever called upon, who have trusted the state against all odds. This youth must be protected and safeguarded within a shrinking demographic that believe in state and that is increasingly disillusioned and disenfranchised.
#ReleaseSaad #RuleofLaw
PAKISTAN: The unlawful detention of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters yesterday, who were protesting outside Adiala jail, Rawalpindi, is yet another example of the repression of the right to protest in the country. Among those detained were former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s sisters, Noreen Niazi and Uzma Khanum, who had gathered outside the Adiala jail premises as part of court-mandated weekly family visits which have been denied since 2 December 2025.
Instead of facilitating lawful visitation, authorities responded with arbitrary detention, tear gas and baton charge. Imran Khan’s sisters and other women protesters were forcibly confined for hours in a closed shop near the jail, while dozens of others were detained in the open air for nearly five hours in torrential rain.
This incident is part of a pattern of targeting PTI supporters and former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s family by criminalizing peaceful protest and using sweeping and arbitrary bans through section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure as a blanket tool to silence dissent.
Amnesty International urges the Pakistani authorities to immediately end their crackdown on peaceful protests, respect the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly and ensure unhindered access to court‑mandated family visits for Imran Khan.
An extremist group in Washington, DC has claimed credit for the terrorist attack on the Iranian bridge, promising further attacks on civilian infrastructure if its demands aren't met
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Yesterday Maryam Nawaz sent police to my parents house in Karachi because I broke the story that her son used a Govt plane for a private trip to Europe.
My family was harassed and the police coerced a statement from my parents that they will be responsible
Today, I had the honour of speaking to the 47 countries that comprise the @UN#HumanRightsCouncil urging the immediate release of my father @imrankhanpti and all #Pakistan’s #politicalprisoners. Along with this, I want to be very clear. Like my father, I fully support maintaining GSP+ as the people of #Pakistan should never be punished for the actions of its leaders. But the Pakistani regime must also fully comply with the 27 treaties it committed to follow to obtain this benefit, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Convention Against Torture. @UN@ptiofficial #HumanRights #ImranKhanUnlawfullyDetained
I'm an American trauma surgeon. One year ago today I was volunteering at Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza when Israel fired a missile into the room of my 16-year-old patient, Ibrahim Barhoum. The missile killed him instantly. If it had hit the room 90 seconds later it would have killed me, too. Today the US and Israel are still blocking medical supplies from entering Gaza, and are repeating the assault on hospitals and healthcare workers across Lebanon.
This is nothing but barbarism. It must be stopped.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
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Just a reminder that Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has lost the following people in this war:
- His father: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (killed in the opening strikes).
- His mother: (Mentioned in multiple sources as killed in the same or related strikes).
- His wife: Zahra Haddad Adel (or Zahra Adel; explicitly confirmed killed in the strike alongside Ali Khamenei).
- His son: (At least one son reported killed; some accounts specify a grandson of Ali Khamenei as Mojtaba's child).
- His sister: (e.g., Hoda Khamenei or similar; reported in family casualty lists).
- His brother-in-law: (Husband of his sister, killed in the strikes).
- Other relatives: Including a niece and/or nephew (grandchildren of Ali Khamenei via Mojtaba's siblings).
I wouldn’t bet on him easing attacks anytime soon…
Why are men so much better at chess than women? This is one of the most uncomfortable questions in all of gender discourse.
Chess is a purely intellectual sport, but anyone familiar with it knows the performance gap is huge. In all of chess history, only three women have ever managed to crack the top 100, and as of me writing this, the current top 100 players are all men. A gap of this magnitude cannot simply be explained away by "cultural factors".
In the video, you can see how the kid quickly shoots down the woman when she tries to flex being a "grandmaster". He points out that her title is actually that of "woman grandmaster", which is a different and much less prestigious title that was created precisely because so few women manage to reach the grandmaster title. So what is the reason for this huge disparity in a purely intellectual sport?
I think it is quite obvious that, over the course of human evolution, men and women were naturally selected for different tasks, and that this has resulted in them developing different adaptations, both physical and mental.
The gender that was constantly busy with hunting and warfare naturally developed a better ability for deep focus and tactical thinking, while the one that spent most of its time in childbearing and childrearing unsurprisingly became better at multitasking and empathy. Yes, this is a simplified look at a much more complex subject, but by and large, it holds true.
Unfortunately, acknowledging this kind of realities is seen as "misogynistic" today, as our postmodern culture believes the ability to play puzzle games well is more impressive and worthy of admiration than high-level mothering instincts and skills.
Today, the most underrated kind of excellence is the silent genius of an amazing mother.
The Muslim Council of Britain published an AI-generated Friday khutbah that confidently quoted "Surah 33:10."
The problem? That verse doesn't exist. The real 33:10 is about the Battle of Al-Ahzab—completely different.
Readers caught the error. The MCB removed the sermon.
LLMs hallucinate. For most use cases, that's annoying. For Quranic content, it's unacceptable.
The Quran is the literal word of God. Every word, every diacritic matters. A misquote isn't just "a bug" -- it's misinformation about sacred text.
I built quran-validator to fix this.
It's an npm library that validates LLM-generated Quran verses against the authentic text.
What it does:
• Validates against all 6,236 authentic verses
• Multi-tier matching (exact → normalized → partial → fuzzy)
• Auto-corrects misquotes to authentic wording
• Includes system prompts for better LLM formatting
Usage is one function:
𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚝 = 𝚟𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚀𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚗(𝚕𝚕𝚖𝚁𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚎);
𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚎.𝚕𝚘𝚐(𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚝.𝚒𝚜𝚅𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚍); // 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚎 𝚒𝚏 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎
𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚎.𝚕𝚘𝚐(𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚝.𝚝𝚎𝚡𝚝); // 𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚎𝚡𝚝
The authentic Quran text comes from QUL (Quranic Universal Library) by @tarteelai.
They open-sourced the Uthmani script with full diacritics. This library wouldn't exist without their work. Thank you.
If you're building anything with LLMs that touches Islamic content --chatbots, educational tools, research apps -- this catches errors before they reach users.
𝚗𝚙𝚖 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚚𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚗-𝚟𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛
GitHub: https://t.co/owYjjum1ea
npm: https://t.co/d1ZiwvNNy3
Zero dependencies. Works with any LLM.
Thank you for your concern, @MohsinnaqviC42.
I did want to report a qabza group. They happen to be your bosses, who have illegally occupied a vast piece of land called Pakistan.
Not sure if the DC Islamabad will be able to provide any relief—the task is far above his pay grade.
The 2nd amendment is not for hunting, it is not for self protection
It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if god forbid government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens