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𝑨 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒂. | #LetAfghanGirlsLearn #RestoreStudentUnion | #PashtunLivesMatter🚩

[lewaney @forgeant]

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible!

Frank Zappa

[lewaney @forgeant]

Qau! 🤍
Restore the lively quaidians' spirit and genuinely embrace the diversity! 🕊️

[Arfa Khan @thearfakhan]

Holi 2026 #QAU

[Benazir Shah @Benazir_Shah]

The repeated failure of public bodies to provide information and the Information Commission's inability to enforce compliance, raises serious questions about the effectiveness of transparency laws.

[Daadlo 🍉 @DaadloSain]

in mirpurkhas a 21 year old medical student fahmida reportedly shot herself at home. her sister says she faced harassment from teachers and some boys and a fake instagram id was used to defame her. another thing: even harassment cells in sindh universities are often run by men..

[Salman Masood @salmanmasood]

The best thing about Islamabad police is that no amount of public outcry over long, unnecessary queues and wasted time at barriers makes any difference. Maximum inconvenience is official policy.

[Naila Waseem @naila_waseem6]

Naveed Masih, a #Christian sanitary worker at the Punjab Assembly, went to clean MPA Sabtain Shah’s room before iftar and was shot dead inside that state facility in #Lahore.
His life was not disposable. We demand justice for Naveed and protection for all minority workers.

[Ilhan Niaz @IlhanNiaz]

Amanullah Khan is the beating heart of the Quaid I Azam University’s History Department (Islamabad).

One could not wish for a finer colleague.

incredibly proud of him as he joins a constellation of authors with his first book!

It just released from Vanguard & it tells a story written in fire & blood about the borderlands of a fallen empire. Do get the book!

https://t.co/LAoJoT8BhY

[Ilhan Niaz @IlhanNiaz]

If you are a third world public sector academic like me, you are going to get insulted a fair bit. The fact that you have a ‘funny sounding’ name and work at an even funnier sounding place (like the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad) means that naturally the great and the good keen on “decolonization” in the West and in your own neck of the woods, are going to assume you are shady if you can string together sentences in English as well (or better) than they can. Working at QAU since 2003, I’ve racked up a good amount of such experiences, and here are just the tip of the iceberg. Enjoy the post and do leave your comments for posterity!

1.A foreign academic writes you an email appreciating your work (now my life is complete!). They send you the article they wrote using your published research. Turns out in said paper they never actually cited you. Well, isn’t that a hoot. The thing to understand is that metropolitan scholars feel entitled to extract the knowledge surplus from local yokels, but they wouldn’t want the prestige of their citations diminished by referring to your sorry hide.

https://t.co/PoxOVKrrT8 send your paper to an international journal. It’s a good paper. Based on fresh archival sources that no one else has seen. But your name is tough to pronounce, and you are from Pakistan (of all the places!). So, they put your paper through FOUR peer reviews. Not the usual two, but four. All four come back positive. I mean really positive. So they kinda have to publish your paper or look like douche bags. Some years pass and you submit another paper to the same journal. Their editors reject it at the initial stage and don’t send it for peer review (because they know they will get stuck having to publish it).

https://t.co/Gx3gEbbukw get invited to deliver a keynote at a conference. You agree as you’ve just published a new book and think “Wow, these guys must have noticed my moves!” A bit later you get informed that the invitation was sent to you in error. Well dang!

https://t.co/ZpJz7gai5q help visiting foreign doctoral candidates “doing Pakistan”. Arrange interviews for them, get them access to books and archives, take them around, make sure they have no trouble. They get their degree, publish their book. You get a copy, not so much as an acknowledgment of your help or, more gallingly, your university.

https://t.co/jTUN2TQ6w7 international publisher, noticing you’ve published a decent number of award-winning books, solicits a proposal from you. You tell them, well I’m working on this n that – macro history, theory, and all that jazz. They go silent. Then sometime later they email you to the effect that we don’t think your interrogation of ideas constitutes academic work – please hire a literary agent and get back to us if you want to publish with us (but hey, you are the ones who solicited the proposal from me!). The subtext being people with weird names working at weird sounding places in weird countries aren’t supposed to have frameworks or ideas of their own.

And as indicated, this is just the tip of the iceberg. I could fill a small book with examples like these. But then, who would publish it?

[Mohsin Dawar @mjdawar]

Bajaur, Waziristan and the rest of Pakhtunkhwa are bearing the brunt of conflict and state apathy. Mainstream media's silence and political indifference expose the facade of Pakistan's federalism. When will the voices of Pashtuns be heard?

[lewaney @forgeant]

I want small joys..so small that no one would want to take it away from me.

[Remi Kanazi @Remroum]

The US never "wins" wars. It topples regimes, commits genocide, destroys economies, creates chaos, lines pockets, loses soldiers, and feeds global instability. The goal is never winning, but rather profiting off of death and misery, and to that end, it wins every time.

[Mohammed Hijab @mohammed_hijab]

"International law" is the West’s moral alibi invoked to sanctify its own crimes while branding others as criminals

[Hadidi @hdrnssr]

Iran just hit US bases.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[The International Magazine @TheIntlMagz]

Palestinian Freedom Fighters, Beirut in 1988.

[Sharon Nadeem @SharonNadeem]

It’s pretty amazing to see the four statements from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and EU on US strikes on Iran side-by-side. The wording is pretty much verbatim, esp the first two paragraphs. They all have the same script.

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

BBC Persian says Iranians are fleeing Iran via the Armenian border.

The license plate is Arabic, and there's Hebrew text on the bag.

It's literally Zionists fleeing Zionistan via the Egyptian border.

[Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. @RecTheRegime]

Unprovoked, the U.S. bombed a country at the behest of a genocidal regime. Let that sink in.

[Dmitry Medvedev @MedvedevRussiaE]

What have the Americans accomplished with their nighttime strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran?

1. Critical infrastructure of the nuclear fuel cycle appears to have been unaffected or sustained only minor damage.

[lewaney @forgeant]

@grok @POTFRNG @freakingdreamy @mxtaverse @grok how many nuclear warheads does pakistan have? And how did they develop it?