Asfandyar Shinwari

PhD Candidate in Politics @EdinburghUni |Marxism|

[Asfandyar Shinwari @Asfandyaaaaar]

There should be an independent investigation into this matter.

[Jamhoor @jamhoormedia]

NEW BLOG:

It is high time the progressive leadership of Pakhtunkhwa faces difficult questions concerning its future

@Asfandyaaaaar

https://t.co/eZuZBamhLH

[Hunain @PTI_Scientist]

آئی ایس ایف کے یہ نوجوان، آج وزیراعلٰی بن رہے ہیں:

[Asfandyar Shinwari @Asfandyaaaaar]

@fawadchaudhry نالائق اور نسل پرست انسان، یہ سامراجی مفادات کی جنگ کی بات ہو رہی ہے۔ قبائل لڑتے ہیں، یہ ارتقائی عمل ہے جس سے قومیں گزرتی ہے، لیکن اگر ان کے خطے کو 45 سال جنگی معیشت کا کارخانہ بنایا جائے اور پنجاب ان کے وسائل سے مستفید ہو جبکہ وہ خود ان پر حق نہ رکھتے ہو تو یہ ظلم ہے۔

[Mahrang Baloch @MahrangBaloch_]

At this moment, our peaceful sit-in in Quetta, Balochistan, is facing a brutal and unjustified crackdown by state security forces. Dozens of our companions, including women, have been arrested, and their whereabouts remain unknown. The security forces are resorting to indiscriminate firing and heavy tear gas shelling, creating a suffocating atmosphere that has severely affected the health of many peaceful protesters, including elderly individuals and children present at the demonstration.

Additionally, a complete communication blackout has been imposed in Quetta, with mobile networks and internet access deliberately cut off to prevent information from reaching the outside world. Security forces have also launched raids in nearby areas, arbitrarily arresting more activists and intimidating families.

This violent suppression of peaceful dissent is a blatant violation of fundamental human rights. I urge all advocates of justice, human rights organizations, and the international community to take immediate notice of this brutality and hold the responsible authorities accountable.

#StopBalochGenocide

[Asfandyar Shinwari @Asfandyaaaaar]

@Ahmad_Noorani Startling revelation. Could you also please also put light on why they charge people with blasphemy after all? Are there any funders? How do they benefit?

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru_]

A European military giant is rising. After Trump’s clash with Zelenskyy, EU leaders push for military independence from the US. Talks of a European army, a nuclear shield, and massive defense spending are gaining steam. As the West fractures, Europe races to become a superpower.

[Asfandyar Shinwari @Asfandyaaaaar]

@NidaKirmani On my list!

[Asfandyar Shinwari @Asfandyaaaaar]

considered a threat to be exterminated.

[Asfandyar Shinwari @Asfandyaaaaar]

Yet another Pashtun student after Mashal Khan has fallen prey to the state-backed religious fundamentalism. From factories to campuses, social spaces in Pakhtunkhwa are highly securitized through the ideological apparatus of Islamism, a crucial apparatus of the state.
Although

[Asfandyar Shinwari @Asfandyaaaaar]

formal politician, all government tenders in Pakhtunkhwa are required to pay 1/10th of the tender money to these militant organisations. Under the war economy, the state functions according to the laws of the militarised capital in which dissent is not consented to, but

[Marcello Musto @MarMusto]

On the anniversary (206) of #Marx's birth, I selected a few letters to reveal lesser-known (and fun) aspects of his personality.
1. The conservative father-in-law
Letter to Paul Lafargue (author of The Right to Be Lazy), when he began the relationship with Laura Marx:
"If you wish to continue your relations with my daughter, you will have to give up your present manner of 'courting'. You know full well that no engagement has been entered into, that as yet everything is undecided. I have observed with alarm how your conduct has altered from one day to the next within the geological period of one single week. To my mind, true love expresses itself in reticence, modesty and even the shyness of the lover towards the object of his veneration, and certainly not in giving free rein to one's passion and in premature demonstrations of familiarity.
Before your relationship with Laura is finally settled, I must have proper clarification of your financial position. You know that I have sacrificed my whole fortune to the revolutionary struggle. I do not regret it. Quite the contrary. If I had to begin my life over again, I would do the same. I would not marry, however. As far as it lies within my power, I wish to save my daughter from the reefs on which her mother's life was wrecked.
As an avowed realist, you cannot, of course, expect that I should behave as an idealist in respect of my daughter's future. Such a positive person as yourself, who would abolish poetry, will not wish to make poetry to the detriment of my child. You must have achieved something in life before thinking of marriage.

[Asfandyar Shinwari @Asfandyaaaaar]

@NidaKirmani True. Also, even the boundaries between education and imperialism are blurred particularly in the West. During the anti-Israel protests in Edinburgh University, the activists revealed that the uni has invested 38 million dollars in the US arms industries which is barbarous.

[Asfandyar Shinwari @Asfandyaaaaar]

resistance in that sphere of politics however unjustified one may call it. The small parties of the likes of the ANP, not to mention the JI, both almost wiped out now, have received the message of the new game very well.

[Asfandyar Shinwari @Asfandyaaaaar]

The people of Pakistan resisted the establishment. That they thought polling stations are fight arenas, and PTI is anti-establishment is a totally different matter. More importantly, the election was a manifestation of rejection of exploitation, oppression, totalitarianism, and

[Asfandyar Shinwari @Asfandyaaaaar]

, mountains. But it cannot also be ignored that the election has also set a new convention of defiance that will mark the future of politics in the country in formal politics at least. At the moment, it is the PTI that has become the biggest and the only relevant symbol of

[Asfandyar Shinwari @Asfandyaaaaar]

@odysseuslahori So, no guarantees, anyone can be Afghanophobic!

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Piers Morgan asks professor @normfinkelstein how he thinks his parents, who were both Holocaust survivors, would’ve reacted to October 7th.

“They [his parents] had the right to hate the people that destroyed their lives, and the people of Gaza have the right to hate the people who destroyed their lives.”

@piersmorgan | @PiersUncensored