Ashraf Kakar

خواهشات که اسونه وای، ملنګان به سپاره ګرځېدای
if wishes were horses...

[Moniza Kakar @Moni_Kakar]

Yesterday we prayed, “Maybe Akbar is still alive.” Today, we bury that hope. My cousin, my brother, Akbar Sherani is gone. We grew up together, went to school together, and his stories filled our home.
How many more lives, Pashtunkhwa?
#PashtunKhwaUnderAttack
#ZiaratUnderAttack

[Imran Khan @iopyne]

Pashtun regions of Balochistan were largely safe from this when Quetta shura was parked here. With attacks predominantly focused on the Hazaras, while mostly sparing Pashtuns. Now TTP is targeting these districts like it did KP over the last two decades. Same KP script in play.

[Samad Comrade @SamadComrade]

گزشتہ چوبیس گھنٹوں کے دوران پختونخوا، کوئٹہ، زیارت، بنوں، وزیرستان اور باجوڑ میں 26 افراد ریاستی دہشت گردی کے بھینٹ چڑھ گئے۔ کیا مین اسٹریم میڈیا پر اس کی ایک بھی سرخی یا خبر چلائی گئی؟ آدھے سے زیادہ صوبہ کہیں طالبان اور کہیں پرائیویٹ ملیشیاؤں کے قبضے میں ہے.

[Ulus yar @ulusyar3]

This morning, security forces imposed a sudden curfew in Mir Ali, #NorthWaziristan. Qadirullah, a local had taken a patient to hospital. The soldiers opened fire on rickshaw without warning. Qadirullah was critically injured & later succumbed to his injuries.

[Mirwais @Mirwaiskk]

Last night, nine policemen from my hometown were killed. Many are still missing. I knew most of them. They weren't headlines or statistics. They were people whose families I know, people who had lives and loved ones waiting for them.
#Ziaratunderattack

[Moniza Kakar @Moni_Kakar]

I stand with the peaceful sit-ins in Quetta and Ziarat demanding justice, accountability, and peace. #Balochistan 2/2

[Moniza Kakar @Moni_Kakar]

Balochistan is bleeding. The Ziarat attack, following the Hanna Urak tragedy, exposes a deepening security crisis. My relative Akbar Sherani remains missing. Terrorism must be defeated, and protecting lives is the state's constitutional duty. 1/2

[Farzana Ali @farzanaalispark]

۔۔۔۔۔کوئی پہرہ نہیں فصیلوں پر
شہر اندر سے ہے حراست میں۔۔۔۔۔۔

[Ashraf Kakar @AshrafKakkar]

@Akmalkh91831421 desi version of #whiteLivesmatter :)

[Aimal Khan Achakzai @Aimal74]

"People have beautiful things to say about you, but you must die first."

#FyodorDostoevsky

[James Schneider @schneiderhome]

The main role the political-media class role plays on behalf of the ruling class is to lower the expectations of the people.

[Ashraf Kakar @AshrafKakkar]

@pashtonzoy We made a short documentary on this, you can watch it on facebook https://t.co/ENMu2ca7Iw

[Dr. Rhonda Patrick @foundmyfitness]

Strength training for 90-120 minutes per week is associated with up to a 30% lower risk of death from all causes, CVD, cancer, and neurologic disease.

That seems to be the upper limit - no additional benefit was observed above 120 minutes of strength training per week.

These benefits were independent of total aerobic activity, but combining strength training with ~5-15 hours of moderate-to-vigorous-intensity aerobic activity reduced all-cause mortality risk by 45%!

Clear message here is: "do both."

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The modern (18-19th C.) nation-state.

[Ali Usman Qasmi @AU_Qasmi]

California-based Omar Khan has been obsessed with the Indus Valley civilization since he was a teenager. He has been running an excellent resource - https://t.co/Nv7JAHRftO, and now he has produced a captivating short documentary on Mohenjo daro. Do watch it. Amazing work.

Mohenjo daro: Unsealing an Ancient Indus City https://t.co/Z9CicNtreR via @YouTube

[Afrasiab Khattak @a_siab]

Deployment of Taliban on both sides of the DL in 2021 was aimed at pushing Afghans/Pashtuns to dark ages for strengthening the colonial grip over them. Erasure of women from all walks of life, particularly from education, is the most serious blow at the body of Afghan nation.

[brief. @brief_pk]

Pakistan’s education crisis is a story of deliberate neglect that serves the powerful. With over 26 million children out of school and 77% of 10-year-olds unable to read a simple sentence, the primary beneficiaries of the broken system are the feudal and political elite, whose grip on rural communities depends on an illiterate, economically dependent workforce. Education spending has collapsed to just 0.8% of GDP in 2024-25, while private schools quietly monetize the state’s dysfunction by catering to those who can afford to opt out. Ultimately, Pakistan’s demographic dividend will remain a curse so long as reform threatens entrenched interests more than inaction does.

[Usama Khilji @UsamaKhilji]

100+ prominent Pakistanis & organisations demand that the federal government not oppose @ImaanZHazir & @AdvHadiali’s request for bail & suspension of sentence before the Supreme Court of Pakistan tomorrow 12th May

#ReleaseImaanAndHadi

[Ayesha Siddiqa @iamthedrifter]

Interesting that shopkeepers around Punjab are being taxed about PKR 1100 to put this poster in front of their shops anyone refusing to do so will be penalized with a charge of 50,000

[Zarin Khan @ZarinKhan96]

Pashtun girls are once again being told their future does not belong to them.

In Tajori, Lakki Marwat, the TTP ordered schools to expel female students.

1/3 @a_siab @RahimWazir5
@iqraannie @imasbaloch @HamidAliBaloc10