Pandhi

[Hamid Mir حامد میر @HamidMirPAK]

بہاولپور کبھی بھی پنجاب کا حصہ نہیں رہا قیام پاکستان کے وقت بھی بہاولپور پنجاب میں شامل نہیں تھ�� بہاولپور کو جنرل یحییٰ خان نے ایک ایل ایف او کے ذریعہ 1970 میں پنجاب میں شامل کر دیا اب کچھ لوگ کہتے ہیں بہاولپور پنجاب کا حصہ ہے

[Fahad Maral فہد مڑل @fahad_maral]

Petty tactics of Punjabi supremacists & their ethnic majoritarianism exposes themselves. It makes Saraikis resilient & aware of inequity & odds stacked against them. We constantly face bias, hatred & prejudice. Thank you for showing all Pakistanis what Saraikis have to deal with.

[Fahad Maral فہد مڑل @fahad_maral]

Please discuss things with reason & objectively & rationally without basest & petty attacks at Saraiki language & Saraiki peoples. Mean-spirited & prejudiced attacks & fallacious arguments without reason don’t mean anything.

[Fahad Maral فہد مڑل @fahad_maral]

Mr Ghauri would be well advised to think through & engage in informed discourse on politics, political sociology, economics, federalism, structural and systematic issues, culture, history, languages. And doing so with cultural empathy and cultural competence is a bare minimum.

[Fahad Maral فہد مڑل @fahad_maral]

Quoting few names of politicians or civil servants is laughable. It is uncannily similar to how obfuscation & obscurantism was used during “one unit” or later (before & after 18th amend & revised NFC award) to keep resources in Islamabad & Lahore.

[Fahad Maral فہد مڑل @fahad_maral]

It is absolutely laughable, absurd & unbelievable how most petty, fallacious & basest propaganda is considered some kind of “wisdom” & used to make prejudiced & mean-spirited attacks on Saraikis to instigate linguistic/cultural racism & obfuscate discussion on equity & rights.

[Fahad Maral فہد مڑل @fahad_maral]

As for Saraikis who are from Baloch tribes, what kind of nonsensical & petty attack is that? There are Sindhis who are from Baloch tribes. They are indigenous population. Ethnic groups are not some purist races. Reading politics, history, anthropology helps. Majoritarian bigotry?

[Fahad Maral فہد مڑل @fahad_maral]

Vasaib/Saraiki region of the south doesn’t have a federal unit so doesn’t get NFC share. We don’t have job quota allocation. And this is just for starters. Our language & culture is not promoted. These are very basis of integration in diverse/multiethnic federal polity & society.

[Fahad Maral فہد مڑل @fahad_maral]

In no other federal system in the WORLD is one provincial unit more than half of the population & it tries to hold more resources of its share & federal revenue for areas (invariably central & northern) of its preferred ethnic (Punjabi) dominance. Study & research debunks myths.

[Fahad Maral فہد مڑل @fahad_maral]

I don’t know if Mr Ghauri has ever studied social sciences or political systems with any seriousness to understand that one or two or x, y, z people getting some positions over 75 years is not equity. Majoritarian structural design holds resources & distribution is skewed.

[🔻 فائزہ خان @faizakhan_]

You will be shocked at the sheer racism they casually throw at those who gave them their land and resources. Tell me, is that not how colonial occupiers think? Notwithstanding that his claims are absolute BS.

[Kasim Gilani @KasimGillani]

Exactly why we need a separate province: to bring government closer to the people of South Punjab.

[Meena Gabeena @gabeeno]

PMLN argument that if Punjab breaks all provinces should break is so lame. The people of south Punjab are the only people in Pakistan who have consistently since the 60s demanded a separate province. Almost every political party has promised them a separate province. No1 else has

[Bina Shah @BinaShah]

It takes a lot of money to not smell. Money for water, for better quality clothes, to pay for electricity to heat the water in which to bathe and wash clothes. Easier for the rich to judge a poor woman or man than to even understand the systemic inequalities underlying body odor.

[Ayesha Siddiqa @iamthedrifter]

Notes From South Punjab: Bahawalpur, A River Dies Of Thirst https://t.co/b1DN34EQir

[Zaigham Khan @zaighamkhan]

انیس لاکھ کے نارووال سے بھی دو وزیر ہیں اور تین کروڑ کے جنوبی پنجاب سے بھی۔ دہائیوں سے جنوبی پنجاب کو اس کے حصے سے آدھے سے بھی کم حصہ مل رہا ہے۔ تخت لاہور بتائے وہ کرنا کیا چاہتا ہے۔

[Ayesha Siddiqa @iamthedrifter]

Notes From South Punjab: An Unfinished Struggle For Identity And A Province https://t.co/PHiV7ldb8s

[Benazir Shah @Benazir_Shah]

Bird sellers, independent journalists, and the state:

How the FIA/NCCIA is freezing the bank accounts of independent journalists, their family members, and anyone linked to them over “anti-state” posts.

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[Jowdut @Jowdutism]

Concrete embankments by State and Non State elements have disturbed natural river flow, those with the least protection are paying the highest. Let Sindhu and all rivers flow freely
Compensate all Displaced in Basti Kanjal

[The Friday Times @TFT_]

More than 5,000 people in Basti Kanjal, Layyah, have reportedly been displaced by devastating River Indus bank erosion.
Homes, schools, a BHU and more than 1,000 acres of farmland have been lost

When rivers move, people pay the price.
By @AsfandGurmani
🔗 https://t.co/UBkT8VvhF4