Halima Azhar

Sustainable development| former media consultant at @mmfd| Working at @HRCP|

wish to translate my thoughts in writing someday

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

Breathing ones.

[Feelings ღ @anxietymsgs]

What are the types of people that you should always avoid?

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

Gurl- dump your thoughts in that three friend group chat or maybe video call them directly.

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

Because they genuinely love kids sm that they choose not to bring them in this CRUEL CRUEL CRUEL world.

[Raven @Ravenismeee]

Why do people who don't have kids often seem so good with them? 🤔

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

My sister is introducing Shahrukh Khan to her daughters,and its a treat to watch their reaction 🤣.
They have started from music of his films btw.

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

Just today I heard someone saying this about me and I gave them a polite shut up call.

[🍒 @ch3rrydx7]

who invented the concept of saali being aadhi ghar wali this is so disgusting why do people even say this ew

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

@Laiba_Zainab Commitment

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

I wish healing was linear. Because this non-linear thing doesn't make sense to me.

[Shireen Mazari @ShireenMazari1]

One of the BBG victim's wife Iqra Khurram Rasheed came to show support for @ImaanZHazir & @AdvHadiali. It's these people's prayers that sustain Imaan, Hadi & our family as r children suffer continued injustice & illegal incarceration. Always abt vengeance, never abt justice or law. #ReleaseImaanAndHadi

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

As Hina Jillani says, we must continue to struggle as activists, success is bonus in our work.
#releaseImaanandHadi

[Aurat March Islamabad @Aurat_marchisb]

Glimpses from outside NPC where members of Aurat March Isl, along with civil society groups and activists, gathered in solidarity demanding the release of Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali, who have endured 100 days of imprisonment for standing with the voiceless.

#ReleaseImaanandHadi

[Amnesty International South Asia, Regional Office @amnestysasia]

PAKISTAN: Ali Wazir has spent nearly 20 months trapped in a cycle of arbitrary detention, repeat cases and re‑arrests designed to keep him behind bars.

On 16 March 2026, a court ordered his release. He was re‑arrested within hours. Since then, three new cases have been filed to prolong his detention.

This weekend, Ali Wazir went on a hunger strike inside Dadu Jail, to protest being denied urgent medical care despite suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart‑related condition.

✊ Demand his immediate release
📣 Take part in our urgent action appeal
🔗https://t.co/wXWRT1tVbm

#FreeAliWazir

[Matiullah Jan @Matiullahjan919]

Pls repost if you endorse the following statement prepared by civil society activists

*Demanding Justice for Adv. Imaan Mazari Hazir and Adv. Hadi Ali Chattha*

24 April 2026: We, members of the Civil Society of Pakistan, stand in unwavering support and solidarity with renowned lawyers, Adv. Imaan Mazari Hazir and Adv. Hadi Ali Chattha.

We strongly condemn the continued incarceration of both human rights lawyers. Despite urgent Petitions, 90 days have passed without court hearings or due process – after being unjustly sentenced to 17 years imprisonment and fines of Rs.36 million, following a sham trial – in violation of the Constitution, rule of law, fundamental human rights, and dignity of the legal profession.

*Human Rights, Health, Financial, Legal Implications*

Their imprisonment, including solitary confinement, has reached a critical threshold, with serious implications.

*Constitutional Violations, Unjust Punishment:* Their 17-year sentences, with huge fines on trivial charges, violate Pakistan Constitution Articles 4, 9, and 10-A, guaranteeing dignity and security of the person, due process, and right to a fair trial.

*Physical and Psychological Health:* Prolonged incarceration without due process imperils physical and psychological health, necessitating urgent medical intervention. The State’s imprisonment and separation of a married couple serves no purpose other than to inflict maximum emotional distress, violating their dignity and human rights.

*Financial Strangulation:* Imposing excessive fines, the State is effectively stripping them of their ability to sustain themselves upon their eventual release after 17 years.

*Silencing Voices of the Voiceless:* Both are renowned pillars as legal and human rights defenders – voices and bridges between the marginalized and the State.

*Grassroots Activism:* Both are at the forefront of social justice activism: protests, press conferences, media advocacy, conveying the voices of the vulnerable.

*Persecution of Rights Defenders:* Due to their brave work within the judicial system, a systematic strategy to crush the spirit of two young human rights defenders, legal professionals.

*Defending the Defenceless:* Both specialize in defending victims of *enforced disappearances* and false *blasphemy* accusations, taking cases on _pro bono_ basis to ensure legal representation.

*Breach of International Commitments:* UN Special Rapporteurs stated that charges of "cyber terrorism" are a blatant attempt to silence their professional work in Public Interest Litigation and human rights activism. Having ratified the ICCPR _(inter alia)_ Pakistan is thus in direct violation of its binding legal international commitments in this matter.

*Demands*

We call upon the Government of Pakistan and the Judiciary urgently to:
1. *Expedite Judicial Process:* We urge the judiciary to take up their Appeals and hear their cases on *merit*, releasing them on bail without further delay. *The State must not obstruct the swift dispensation of justice.*

2. *Withdraw Fabricated Charges:* The State must withdraw all "cyber terrorism" and "glorification of offense" charges under PECA 2016.

3. *Revoke Fine, Provide Compensation:* (a) Revocation of Rs.36 million fines; (b) Provision of relief and compensation for the physical and psychological trauma of their unjust incarceration.

4. *Comply with UN Obligations:* Ensure full compliance with the ICCPR and all recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteurs in this matter.

*A Plea to the Legal Community*
We commend the legal community for their strong Resolution (15 April 2026). We call upon Bar Associations and lawyers countrywide to also demonstrate solidarity and work jointly to obtain justice for their unjustly convicted, sentenced, imprisoned colleagues.
*If defenders of the law are not safe from misuse of the law, then no citizen is safe.*

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

Islamabad is nice and all, but lahore has DUCK DONUTS- I want DUCK DONUTS.
Everyone is lahore please go have my fav donuts. My TREAT ❤️

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

I wrote this article without using AI and I feel proud of myself.
Never going back to this stupid AI thing.

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

We live in an anti-poor country.

#Forcedevictions

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

This should not bother left only, it must bother each one of us. Not because "today its them, tomorrow it can be us" but because its wrong on legal, political and humanitarian grounds.

State that offers nothing to citizens, must stop what people have built on their own.

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

Someone said "why did left started amplifying this issue around peace talks"?
People have been talking about the issue of Katchi Abadis for a very long time, and it got amplified now because CDA once again started using its colonial ways to force people out of their own homes

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

62 Million men were attending "Global Rape Academy" on telegram to drug and abuse their wives.
Everyday men would show you a new low and all you can do is be shocked and listen to someone telling you "Not all men".

[Ammar Rashid @AmmarRashidT]

Tomorrow the Federal Constitutional Court will hear our constitutional petition on the right to housing amid citywide evictions in Isb. Here's a thread on past orders passed in this case by Supreme Court judges that CDA has completely ignored.🧵 #StopIslamabadEvictions

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

What the state fails to understand is that a forced eviction is not just the loss of a house, it is also the loss of an entire ecosystem of survival. It is the school your child walked to, the neighbourhood that ensured girls got home safely, and the workplace you could reach on foot. When the CDA demolishes settlements, it is dismantling entire economies of survival. Overnight, half of your income is swallowed by rent and transport, leaving far less for schooling, healthcare, food and dignity.

Women in these communities spend years, often decades, building protective networks based on shared childcare, safety in numbers and an intimate knowledge of which spaces are safe at what times. Eviction atomises these networks overnight and there is no replacement. A new rented home does not come with safety or community.

There is mounds of research that shows displacement leads to spikes in domestic violence, girls dropping out of school often permanently, worsening mental health, and declining productivity and income. Yet the state will not count the women pushed out of the labour force, the girls who never return to school or the young men who lose both the will and the means to work.

Forced displacement is not a one time shock, it produces multigenerational poverty that compounds over time. What is being called land reclamation is in action the state manufacturing poverty one bulldozer at a time. This is not merely cruelty, it is economic incompetence. These settlements already have informal infrastructures of care and survival, including community managed waste and transport, informal safety networks, solar powered homes and low cost housing that sustains the city’s workforce. The people being evicted are the backbone of the city, including sanitation workers, guards, drivers, plumbers, domestic workers, nurses, mechanics, vendors, and daily wage labourers. This is a state engineered poverty scheme for the urban non elite.

#StopIslamabadEvictions

[Halima Azhar @azhar_halima]

Your not so SUTHRA PUNJAB.

[BBC World Service @bbcworldservice]

This hospital at the centre of a child HIV outbreak in Pakistan is caught reusing syringes in a BBC investigation.

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