Abdullah Zaidi

SCUBA diver. Bylines @dawn_com @thenews_intl & @TFT_. Former @WorldBank & @Pildat. Opinions & shenanigans my own.

[Abdullah Zaidi @abdullahz88]

Wrote something on the state of government regulation and how to make it more inclusive.
https://t.co/FXhYgGyMu0

[Abdullah Zaidi @abdullahz88]

Jus khuda ne Mohsin Naqvi ko kursi dilwayi hai usne mera bhi kuch socha hoga!

[Abdullah Zaidi @abdullahz88]

Best thing to have happened to British politics since @jeremycorbyn became labour leader.

[Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin]

He's going to win if he keeps making points like this.

[Abdul Rehman Najam @ARNOfficiall]

Financial Year 2026 ended today. Which asset class performed the best?

Savings Account: 10% Profits
Gold: 22-23% Profits
PSX 🇵🇰🇵🇰 : 40-42% Profits ✅✅

[Abdullah Zaidi @abdullahz88]

@mahobili I guess they wont be happy knowing that you and I text constantly, would they.

[Harry Pettit 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @HarrygPettit]

To paraphrase Mohammed Al-Kurd:

In one part of the world, we have mothers complaining about being threatened by some words on a tshirt.

In another part of the world, we have mothers searching through the rubble for their dead children.

Guess who receives more attention?

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Happy birthday, Anthony Bourdain.

[Asad @EYounaan32770]

Sanskrit evolved in Pakistan, not India. Grammarian of Sanskrit, Panini was born in a village near Swabi, Pakistan. He taught in Taxila University, which is also in Pakistan. Sanskrit died 600 years before word India was coined. Word India also originated from a Pakistani river

[Abdullah Zaidi @abdullahz88]

Lol

[Farahnaz Ispahani فرحناز @fispahani]

May God bless the #UAE
So many of us are grateful & blessed to live here. #UAE #AbuDhabi #Dubai

[chaotic memes @memechaotic]

The way to live.

[Abdullah Zaidi @abdullahz88]

If you watch this without recoiling, something’s wrong.

BTW this is the most ethical AI company out there.

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei awkwardly smiles through his answer to a question about why Claude AI directly contributed to the US Military bombing of the elementary school in Minab.

[علی حسنین Ali Hasanain @AliHasanain]

Typical 🔥 @ajpirzada thread

[Abdullah Zaidi @abdullahz88]

Another day another scheme.

Retailers have defied the govt for the past 20 years or so. Having stared down Musharraf, Imran, Miftah & IMF without giving an inch. Will they take this lying down? https://t.co/vV7Anx15FS

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

In 1982, Israel bombed the Beirut airport.

The Lebanese were trapped as the IDF marched into Beirut, massacring thousands of civilians.

Hezbollah didn’t exist.

[Abdullah Zaidi @abdullahz88]

Something is clearly afoot.

[omar r quraishi @omar_quraishi]

Does Planning Minister sbwant to become Finance Minister?

[Amal Saad @amalsaad_lb]

I have been a scholar of Hizbullah for over three decades, and throughout that time I have been repeatedly asked when, whether, or how, it will disarm. Yet in the context of Israel's daily terrorism in the south and the Bekaa, and beyond, the question today has become even more absurd, because those who pose it somehow still fail to grasp that they aren't simply asking about an organisation, but about whether an entire people — the people of the south, the Bekaa, and Dahyeh, Lebanon’s Shia community, and a constitutive part of the Lebanese state — should willingly surrender the only means through which they have resisted their own genocide. And the answer to that is something that rings even more true today than it has in the past--there will be no disarmament of Hizbullah's Resistance, with a capital R, or of any other popular resistance that may emerge with a lower case r, so long as the genocidal Israeli entity exists.

[Fawad Chaudhry Updates @ChFawadUpdates]

رانا ثناء اللہ، قمر زمان کائرہ یہ لوگ ووٹر کی عمر سو سال بھر کر دیں کہ تو الیکشن میں یہ نہیں جیت سکتےـ فواد چودھری
@fawadchaudhry

[Abdullah Zaidi @abdullahz88]

Sir you need to meet the French, Swiss, Spanish and other european citizens.

[Nadeem Haque @nadeemhaque]

Two full work weeks vanished for Eid, a whole MONTH for Ramzan, plus the government generously sprinkling public holidays every other week on some random pretext.

So our official ‘no responsibility’ season runs for a solid 10 months.

No wonder we don’t export, don’t grow, and produce nothing.

But hey — we’re totally contented! 🧘‍♂️🌴 Who needs productivity when you can have endless holidays? Case closed, nation thriving.

[Anjana🌤️ @anjecture]

cardinal rule of life : never hookup where you vlookup

[Abdullah Zaidi @abdullahz88]

Would rather sit on a cactus than go on another ticketed run!