Over the past 5 years, a fascinating indicator of inflation has arise:. Pakistan’s landa markets are expanding. Since 2020, Pakistan’s imports of second hand clothes have increased by a staggering 65% to $511 million. But the landa bazaar is a concept unique to Pakistan: {THREAD}
Nariwad--Pakistan's first socialist-feminist magazine-- goes online on 8 March, 2024! Follow this page for an anti-capitalist feminist perspective and to read digitized articles previously published in the magazine.
Since we're discussing "forced divorces":
In 2018, the women of Okara who protested against Army's occupation of peasants' land were punished with forced divorces. Their husbands were abducted and then forced to divorce them.
https://t.co/qZpRDJ5QJ2
An amazing opportunity! If you are a Pakistani writer anywhere in the world, apply and are accepted to
@ClarionWest, you could get funding from
@TheSalamAward. So do apply by March 1! Thanks @usmantm as always for organizing and your generosity!
i feel like i spend more time trying to catch students plagiarizing their essays than actually giving them meaningful feedback on their work these days - it is the absolute worst feeling, and what makes it worse is that i dont think most students are bothered by it at all
I wrote these stories over a period of ten years & put a lot of my heart into them. Grateful to the team at @APublicSpace for giving this book a chance & supremely excited about working with Brigid Hughes & @_rubywang.
I know this sounds like comparing one devil with another but 1.5 years of PDM was more draconian and damaging for the constitution and democracy than the 3 years of PTI. And regardless of what side you stand on, Pakistan's feeble democratic norms are completely gone now.
Pakistani e-commerce guru Sunny Ali spun dreams — thousands of dollars from Amazon sales, a billion dollar economy. Now, his empire has crumbled, and scores want their money back.
@NilChristopher and I report on how a hustlepreneur went terribly wrong
https://t.co/NpSgTbJWY1