Tooba Syed

anti imperialist. organise/write/design. interested in politics, ecology, class and gender.

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

I had the opportunity to speak at a conference organised by London School of Economics to speak alongside Judith Butler. I received a standing ovation for my intervention which obviously is b/c of all my comrades collective wisdom which taught me everything I know. A snippet.

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

Attending and speaking at the SVRI Forum 2026, it is one of the largest global platforms for GBV research, evidence building and activism. I have a session with refugee women leaders to discuss and share about the access to justice for refugee and displaced communities in the absence of state recognition, on 7th October and if you’re here would love to connect.

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

@10waliullah You’re doing such wonderful work.

[ترجمان⚔️ @desichawal]

کراچی میں دوکان کے پیسے نا ہونے پر اپنی مہران ماڈل 2007 گاڑی پر پائے کا سیٹ اپ لگانے کی تیاری کی پوری رات والدہ نے محنت کرکے پائے تیار کروائے، لیکن جیسے ہی نوجوان گھر سے باہر گھر کے باہر سے گاڑی چوری ہو چکی تھی۔
حکمرانوں یہ ویڈیو تم تک بھی پہنچ جانی ہے کچھ کرو گے؟

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

@Muhamma04818452 Yes heard about that conference and how there wasn’t any session on US imperialism. Absolutely great service!

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

Imperialism is a structure of power and structures are not symmetrical. The US controls the dollar system, the sanctions architecture, the visa regime, the international financial institutions, and a global network of military bases. When a Southern state defies that order, it pays in frozen assets, blocked trade, inflation, isolation, and the constant threat of force. Those costs also fall on ordinary people. Treating all state behavior as morally interchangeable erases who holds the leverage and who absorbs the punishment.

It is sad to see a flattened analysis by some that equate US with China and funnily also Iran. I wonder for these people what shapes what feels sayable? A politics that costs nothing and is rewarded by the western institutions, deserves suspicion. Anti-imperialism has real costs. It is not a video, a thread, or a well-formatted essay, and it doesn't have to feel good.

Part of the problem is a lens that can only recognize resistance when it looks secular and liberal. Some of the most consequential anti-imperial politics in the Global South has come in religious or non-liberal forms. If your framework can't read that, it's a limit of the framework, not proof that the resistance isn't real.

None of this means silence on repression but somehow there has been deafening silence about the imperialist sanctions and a weaponisation of identity politics. A state can resist a hegemon and still answer for how it treats women, minorities, and dissidents. Both things can be true however what time you choose to do it matters! If it only and especially comes up when Iran is the ONLY country which has taken a stand against imperialism today and the war on Gaza then your secular western bias is peeking through. Criticize Iran's domestic record, and China's debt leverage, if the evidence supports it. But do it without pretending the scale of power is equal, and without letting "both sides" quietly land on the side of the strongest empire at a time when the imperial violence is at its absolute worst.

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

@Nazranausufzai Couldn’t agree more. What the hell did I just hear :/

[ذرائع نیوز @ZarayeNews]

وزیر سے بس اتنا کہنا ہے آپ نے ہمارے بچوں کی جان نہیں بچائی، اب خدا را اس کی لا ش لادیں تاکہ ہم اپنے بچے کی شکل دیکھ لیں، ہمیں نے کئی بار چیخ چیخ پر اپیلیں کیں مگر حکومت کے کان پر جوں تک نہ رینگی، صومالیہ جہاز پر جان گنوانے والے سیکنڈ آفیسر کاشف عمر کی والدہ
#ZarayeNews #Smoalia

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

So gut wrenching to witness it. We first abandoned our citizens and now we are abandoning their bodies as well.

[ARY NEWS @ARYNEWSOFFICIAL]

"والد کی میت وطن واپس لانے کیلئے انتظامات کیے جائیں"
جاں بحق سیکنڈ انجینئر کاشف کے بیٹے کی اے آر وائی سے گفتگو

#ARYNews

[ARY NEWS @ARYNEWSOFFICIAL]

Gujranwala man held for mistreating wife to prevent birth of second daughter

Details: https://t.co/uq0DfnDoLu

#ARYNews

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

@amirbalochisb Thank you for standing up for him.

[ARY NEWS @ARYNEWSOFFICIAL]

صومالی قزاقوں کی قید میں 3 پاکستانیوں سمیت 5 افراد ہلاک
صومالی قزاقوں کی قید میں پاکستانیوں کے اہل خانہ پھٹ پٹے
صومالیہ میں مغوی پاکستانیوں کی موت۔۔۔ ذمہ دار کون؟

#ARYNews

[Voicepk.net @voicepkdotnet]

A 28-year-old woman, Nabila Shaheen, was murdered and found buried in a pit following an alleged property dispute with her in-laws. Police have arrested the primary suspect—her brother-in-law Waseem—and successfully rescued her two minor daughters, aged 4 and 1, preventing further tragedy.

Raids are ongoing to apprehend four other accomplices, including her mother-in-law. Tragically in June Nabeela had filed a complaint with the police saying her husband had gone missing and accusing her in laws of torturing her physically as well as threatening her.

Read: https://t.co/M43EW5gMSC

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

This is never ending but the deafening silence from the authorities is painful. This is how the women of the country are betrayed. Our lives and dignity has no value here.

[Geo News Urdu @geonews_urdu]

لاہور: گھریلو ناچاقی پر شوہر اور سسرالیوں نے مبینہ طور پر خاتون کو زہر دیکر قتل کردیا
https://t.co/tIpLt2hxmB

[Checkmate Media @CheckMate1_]

Delhi University students protesting the horrific gang-rape incident near Aastha Kunj Park.

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#DelhiProtests #WomenSafety #DelhiUniversity #JusticeForWomen #EndViolence #StudentProtest #CheckmateMedia

[Tariq Rahim @TariqRahimPPP]

گجرانوالہ میں دوسری بیٹی کی پیدائش کی خبر پر حاملہ خاتون پر بہیمانہ تشدد
الٹراساؤنڈ میں دوسری بیٹی کی پیدائش کی اطلاع ملنے پر حاملہ خاتون کو مبینہ طور پر بہیمانہ اور انسانیت سوز تشدد کا نشانہ بنانا انتہائی افسوسناک اور قابلِ مذمت واقعہ ہے۔ بیٹی رحمت ہے، بوجھ نہیں۔

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

@Vshinwari1 I’m not a racist like you. The past few months have had cases across the country. I’m from KP myself and it is no heaven for women.

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

Absolutely shameful. This is probably the 3rd case of a foreigner visitor being r*ped in Pakistan in the recent years. There is an endemic of sexual violence in the country which must be taken very seriously.

[ARY NEWS @ARYNEWSOFFICIAL]

آذربائیجان کی رہائشی 20 سالہ ڈیانا چند روز قبل لاہور آئی تھی

#ARYNews

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

@Vshinwari1 Do you not read the news paper?

[کیڑےمکوڑے @Form_45]

This is a story every gamer should listen to at least once 🇵🇰♥️

[حيدر 🇮🇶 @hay23ds]

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🗣️ زيدان إقبال:

قلت هذا من قبل، لا توجد لدي أي مشكلة مع الكويت، لكن إذا دخلتم إلى حسابي في إنستغرام فسترون حجم التعليقات العنصرية التي تعرضت لها.

نعم، والدي باكستاني، وأنا عراقي وباكستاني، لكننا قبل كل شيء مسلمون. أنا أمثل العراق، وإذا أراد أحدهم أن يصفني بالباكستاني، فمن المفترض أننا إخوة في الإسلام.

إذا أردتم السخرية مني داخل الملعب، فعليكم أولًا أن تتأكدوا من تحقيق الفوز. عندما سجلت اليوم، كان احتفالي بمنزلة رد عليهم.

لا توجد لدي مشكلة مع التعليقات، لكن عندما تطلقون صافرات الاستهجان ضدي أثناء المباراة أو خلال الإحماء، فعليكم توقع رد فعل مني. إذا وجهت شيئًا إلى شخص آخر، فعليك أن تتقبل ما سيأتيك في المقابل.

هذه الأمور تحدث في أوروبا. لست أول لاعب يحتفل أمام جماهير الفريق المنافس، ولن أكون الأخير، لكنهم تعاملوا مع الأمر بحساسية كبيرة. إذا فعلت شيئًا، فيجب أن تتقبل عواقبه.

[Voicepk.net @voicepkdotnet]

Police arrested a man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in Basti Khokhranwali, in the Kabirwala area of Khanewal. According to the FIR, the girl was waiting outside her school on Saturday when the accused, whose daughter was her classmate, offered to take her home. He allegedly took her to his house and raped her while threatening to kill her.