Hanan MA

Professional overthinker.

[ali. @beingRebel9]

Pirates of cellular. 🖐️

[Hanan MA @hannyma19]

They’ll pause for Jummah Namaz, then get right back to the drug trade. Drugs? Perfectly halal, apparently. (Bacha Baazi)Gay sex? Somehow acceptable.

But let a girl go to school? That’s where they draw the line.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Tirah valley - the land of pure hashish...

In the heart of Tirah Valley, a farmer keeps the old traditions alive, selling his hash bucket and chopping it with an axe to measure the weight. A glimpse into the rugged, timeless practices of the valley, mountainous region located in Orakzai District and southern part of Khyber District, positioned between Khyber Pass and Khanki Valley in Pakistan 🇵🇰

Pakistan today is a conservative, Islamic country, but it was a far different place in its younger days. In 1960s and '70s, Pakistan's elite, many of them educated in West, could publicly indulge in more liberal acts, including drinking alcohol. Pakistan was also part of "hippie trail," from Türkiye to India, which young Westerners traveled.

Today, trekking through the secret, narrow passes in the mountains of Tirah, Landikotal and Jamrud tehsils of Khyber Agency, Haji Zubair Afridi and his aides smuggle goatskins in a pickup through Kacharo Kosa. Hidden underneath it are kilos of hashish – what Afridi refers to as his “black gold.”

Their final destination is a clandestine warehouse in Jamrud Bazaar, where Zubair exchanges the animal skin for bundles of cash. He hands out Rs5,000 to the pickup driver and Rs3,000 to a teenage assistant. The rough terrain, he says, has nothing much to offer except for the unending clashes between rival groups. It is, however, rich in abundance as far as hashish is concerned.

The moderate climate and red soil make it a child’s play for Tirah Maidan’s local farmers to grow cannabis. The crop’s stems are hung for two weeks to dry, after which a thin cloth is used to carefully thresh the plant to extract the dust power called “garda.”

Converting garda into consumable hashish is a long process. It must be wrapped inside a fresh goatskin for as long as three months until it turns into a greenish black substance. One skin can contain around 10 kilogrammes of garda.

The skin provides the oil needed to solidify ingredients, said Nisar Afridi, a veteran hashish dealer. The longer the garda is kept inside the skin, the better it tastes. June, July and August are the best months to do this, but direct sunlight should be avoided so the final product is not dry, he added.

Hashish is supplied to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as well as Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi where consumers are willing to pay nearly 10 times more than those in Jamrud, Nisar said.

“We don’t transport it. We just sell it in the agency,” he said, adding that people buy it from them and smuggle it through the Karkhano check post on mules, horses and in vehicles.

Taj Muhammad, a real estate agent and builder in Hayatabad, while loading his cigarette with moist green hashish said that if the hashish is dry, it loses its effect and gives a headache. He has been addicted to it for 15 years and believes it is less harmful than tobacco.

There are no official statistics on total hashish production in the valley. A tribesman familiar with the matter, however, said that a banned outfit controls the price and is heavily invested in the business. In November and December last year, a kilogramme was being sold for Rs65,000 while in June, July and August, the supply increased, dropping the price down to Rs45,000. There are about 250 shops selling hashish in the Wazir Dandh area, Jamrud.

Wahid Gul Afridi, a khasadar force official, is known for recovering thousands of kilogrammes of hashish and has been especially posted at a checkpoint to do just this.

“My instincts can catch hashish dealers, even when the drugs are hidden in vehicles,” he said, adding that he can sense traffickers by their “strange looks”. Gul claims that his resolve has not been broken by the numerous bribes offered to him. “I do this work to get a promotion; I don’t do it for bribes.”

🎥 : Credit to the Owner

© Mohammad Irfan / The Tribune

#archaeohistories

[Hanan MA @hannyma19]

@AJEnglish Al khanzeera your pm gifted whole plane to trump for his PR🥸

[Hanan MA @hannyma19]

Ronaldo’s saying “Bismillah” has gone viral around the world. But what does Bismillah mean?
In Islam, Muslims begin their actions by invoking the name of Allah, seeking His help and blessings.
Bismillah literally means, in Arabic, “In the name of Allah.”

[Ali K.Chishti Official @thewirepak]

The so-called liberals asking why Afghans born in Pakistan are being sent back: They were UNHCR refugees, NOT immigrants or citizens. Deadline is 10 July 2026 sell your property or the State will take it over. Rules are rules.

[Portugal @selecaoportugal]

Imparável 🐐💫

#VaiDarPortugal | #FIFAWorldCup

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

🇵🇹 Portugal have qualified for the Round of 16!

#FIFAWorldCup

[Asad @EYounaan32770]

I am Afghanistan.

I claim to be the Graveyard of Empires but every outsider, the Achaemenians, Greeks, Scythians, Parthians, Kushans, Sassanians, Turks, Mongols, Mughals, Russian, Americans, Pakistanis and Arabs et al have trounced me. They also have changed my DNA.

[Sports on Predict @predictdotsport]

🚨🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo scores from the penalty spot for Portugal against Croatia.

[Speedy HQ @IShowSpeedHQ]

🚨| BREAKING: SPEED REACTS TO CRISTIANO RONALDO SCORING HIS FIRST WORLD CUP KNOCKOUT GOAL AGAINST CROATIA 🤯🤯🤯

THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME 🐐🇵🇹

[Hanan MA @hannyma19]

@high_hopeful I think it might be someone else or a relative of Ishaq Dar, as Dar has only one grandson, and he is severely autistic, Ibrahim. He can't even walk properly without help.

[Hanan MA @hannyma19]

@high_hopeful https://t.co/Nbyls8hqzo

[X @0rion_7]

The Biology

[Hanan MA @hannyma19]

Lgta chokra ne commander ko cheat kr diya 😂

[Hanan MA @hannyma19]

@wrathofJatts 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Shahab @hashurtag]

This pic alone is evidence till the end of times of the close relationship between Abu Bakr and Umar with Rasulullah ﷺ. Isn’t it beautiful that the Sahabah respected the Prophet ﷺ so much that they got buried lower than him? What an honor to be buried next to the man ﷺ that Allah Chose over all of His Creation as the most beloved to Him.

[Hanan MA @hannyma19]

@jazzpk Buy blue tick jazz

[Hanan MA @hannyma19]

@MominISheikh Yes pta announced

[Baji Please @BajiPlease]

Wait a minute... So Twitter is now X; tweets are now posts; DMs are now chats. And we pay to stay visible. Elon Musk tera satyanaas!

You ruined such a pretty place where we happily unwinded & complained nonstop.

[Hanan MA @hannyma19]

@BBCNews Only language these people understand