kaleem sultan

[kaleem sultan @kaleemkust]

@RaviShastriOfc You are no less, Sir

[kaleem sultan @kaleemkust]

@BGPakistan A lot of respect for you 💯

[kaleem sultan @kaleemkust]

@81ShahbazRana If implemented, my junior colleague shall draw 90 k more than my salary. Just saw a table of projected salarie in pay offic of my uni

[Rubab @rubabbx]

Architecture's highest honour in the world was given to a Pakistani woman in 2023.

She received it for building mud houses.

Yasmeen Lari. Born Dera Ghazi Khan 1941. Pakistan's first female architect.

Rejected from architecture school in London. Studied arts for two years. Reapplied. Got in. Graduated Oxford 1964. Returned to Karachi at 23. Opened Lari Associates. Construction workers on site refused to take orders from a woman.

She showed up every day.

For three decades she built some of the most iconic structures in Karachi. Taj Mahal Hotel 1981. Finance and Trade Centre 1989. Pakistan State Oil House 1991. Glass towers. Gilded elevators. Polished granite. Designing for Pakistan's most powerful clients.

In 2000 she retired from that world.

And built an entirely different one.

2005 Kashmir earthquake. She went to Mansehra with no brief and no client. Sat with women who had lost their homes. Listened to what they needed. Then designed with what they had.

Mud. Lime. Bamboo. Local materials. Zero cost. Zero carbon. Zero waste.

She did not hand over finished houses. She trained communities to build their own. Because dignity matters more than charity.

2010 floods. Bamboo structures on stilts. Waterproof. Standing in seven feet of water.

40,000 disaster-resilient homes built across Pakistan.

A smokeless chulah stove that transformed women's health in rural communities. World Habitat Award 2018.

Cambridge University appointed her Professor of Sustainable Design 2022.

RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2023. The highest honour in world architecture. First Pakistani ever.

She said: I never imagined focusing on my country's most marginalised people could lead to this.

From glass towers for the powerful to mud homes for the forgotten.

Same woman. Same country. Two completely different Pakistans served.

Yasmeen Lari.

Pakistan Zindabad. 🇵🇰

[Shahbaz Rana @81ShahbazRana]

Crisis is the test of the governance and leadership.
Pakistan has managed the fuel crisis largely well and there was no shortage of supplies. For that the credit goes to Prime Minister who timely took decisions, Deputy PM who negotiated safe passage for vessels and the Petroleum Minister.
However, taxation was the weakest point that the government couldn’t handle well. The government should make sure that the levy,today reduced to Rs80 per liter, is not increased again.

[kaleem sultan @kaleemkust]

@RHCJO @KingAbdullahII A lot of love from Pakistan

[kaleem sultan @kaleemkust]

@MuhammadKhurram @Faruqniazi @OryaMaqboolJan Aap jeet gaye

[Haroun Rashid @HarounRashid2]

Well worth a listen #PakPolitics

[kaleem sultan @kaleemkust]

@iamshafaatali Sir, you will have to pay the price for telling the truth

[kaleem sultan @kaleemkust]

https://t.co/1yNf2u1cET

[Gul Bukhari @GulBukhari]

اپنی حکومت کے آخری دن ٹی وی پر بیٹھ کر عوام کے سامنے اپنے اپوزیشن دور کے قصے سنا رہے تھے۔ کہ آپ نے ڈرونز اور دہشتگردی کے خلاف جنگ کے مخالفت کی۔ حضور، اب یہ بھی کوئی راز نہیں ہے کہ آپ یہ کیوں اور کس کے کہنے پر کرتے تھے
@MirSwat
تحریر: تلمند خان

https://t.co/QTCjB1707j

[kaleem sultan @kaleemkust]

@am_nawazish Sir, aap ka column read ker ke jhoom raha hon... thanks

[kaleem sultan @kaleemkust]

@iamshafaatali Sir, ARY walay ap ki chutti na kar den

[Wajahat Masood @wajahatmasood]

ایک بیمار معاشرے کی پانچ اہم علامات ہیں۔ (1) جنگ پسندی، (2) تعصب، (3) حاکمیت پسندی (طاقت کی پوجا)، (4) عورت کو کمتر سمجھنا اور (5) مذہبی ریاکاری (پارسائی کی نمائش)

[kaleem sultan @kaleemkust]

@aaj_urdu @fatimash29 A perfect piece, pointing to the root cause of our academic inefficiency and below par educational standings globally.
in fact earlier before mid eightees we had a system similar to what this article proposes. at primary level there was no english.

[kaleem sultan @kaleemkust]

Mind Your Language https://t.co/6ncHIx3o65

[Dr Humma Saif @HummaSaif]

ایسی اعلئ ٹیم لے کر آؤں گا جو کبھی عوام کے سامنے پہلے آئ ہی نہی، دعوی کرتا ہوں
ایک دم ملک اٹھے گا: نیازی صاحب کے دعوے اور وعدے

[kaleem sultan @kaleemkust]

what else is called tit for tat

[omar r quraishi @omar_quraishi]

Some TV channels were mocking workers for eating qeemay waalay naan at the Gujranwala Jalsa. I would request Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Maryam Nawaz Sharif to order Papa John's pizza for workers next time: MNA Sardar Akhtar Mengal

[Fasi Zaka @fasi_zaka]

Can't be overstated- this is beyond brilliant

[Mosharraf Zaidi 🇵🇰 @mosharrafzaidi]

The world is messy.

There are ambiguities.

People who do really good stuff, have flaws.

[Fakhar Durrani @FrehmanD]

عمران خان نے زرداریوں اور شریفوں کے خلاف کرپٹ اور چور کا بیانیہ عوام میں مقبول کیا(تاحال عدالتوں سے ثابت ہونا رہتا ہے)۔ لیکن عمران خان نے اپنی نااہلی کا جو بیانیہ اپنے ہی خلاف بنایا وہ عوام کی عدالت میں پچھلے دو سال سے وفاق اور سات سال سے پختونخواہ میں ثابت ہوچکا ہے۔