akbar hassan

parda nasheen ko beparda na kar doon to akbar mera naam nahin hai (immigration attorney)

[akbar hassan @khatmal23]

عیدِ اکبر مبارک!

[erika @yeeeerika]

the human spirit was not designed for this many passwords

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

In 1971, Wisse and her family left their comfortable lives in Montreal to live in Israel. They lasted 1 year, btwn everyone’s horrible manners and the much poorer quality of life. She felt guilty about leaving and dedicated her life to propagandizing for Israel in North America.

[✮ راينر براون @dondawastaken]

Never forget that you are the main data center. Drink water, and consume as much literature as possible.

[Paul Babinski @Paul_Babinski]

A manuscript of Petraeus's Coptic-Arabic-Latin edition of Psalm 1, with annotations that were left out of the 1663 printing, presented in 1661 to the Danish King Frederick III. CKB, ms Or. Arch. 2(2).

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Stephen Miller’s pathological hatred of immigrants made stupidity and cruelty official policy across every part of the federal government.

“Only American citizens and green card holders can be airport janitors” is ridiculous. This woman legally worked there for almost 30 years!

[Aatif @aaiqbal]

@hasanthehun And it doesn’t matter WHY they marched with Smotrich. They lent their support and their moral approval to Smotrich and to Smotrich’s project.

[Nicolette Glazer @NicoletteGlazer]

🚨 .@camiloreports chased a much, much more precise reframing from DHS on the #AOSMemo:

"This policy will have no noticeable impact on highly qualified applicants and skilled professionals who have followed the law. [] These aliens benefit the national interest and provide economic benefits to the United States and will continue to merit the favorable exercise of discretion."

Again, it is not attributed to a particular official but it is a targeted response to CBS!

Assuming this is their actual view (rather than another spin by a PR person with no knowledge of what Joe and Stephen Miller are cooking) a few things to note:

1. the assertion of no "noticeable impact" is said to apply to "highly qualified applicants" and "skilled professionals," but note the qualification: "who have followed the law". People are either statutorily eligible under 245(a) or not; there is no degree of statutory eligibility. This is just another way to say, that even if you are eligible you'll get a grant only if you meet the high bar for discretion they are setting. I take this phrasing as a confirmation that IR overstays, 245i, and applicants with even minor violations of status will probably be out of luck.

2. we have a repeat that DHS now equates 'favorable exercise of discretion' -- traditionally and in practice a relatively low bar for applicants without significant derogatory factors -- with the standard for national interest waiver and economic benefit to the United States. Again, we have phrasing consistent with the memo and the cases cited within that most EB3 and family-based adjustment will start from the basis that they are ineligible for a grant unless they show extraordinary equities. Absolutely unlawful!

3. my reading is that EB5, EB-1 and EB2 should be fine unless arrests or prior squirrelly COS history.

[akbar hassan @khatmal23]

why did he eat it like that

[حلقہ بگوشِ میر @naguftaa]

bhai mujhe tw farsi sunaayi de rahi hai

[حذیفہ امیرالبحر @mutrabebazm]

نظر لگے نہ کہیں اس کے دست و بازو کو
یہ لوگ کیوں مرے زخمِ جگر کو دیکھتے ہیں
—
اس شعر کی خوبی بیان سے باہر ہے, بڑے بڑے مشاہیر شعرا کے دیوانوں میں اس کا جواب نہیں نکل سکتا
- طباطبائی

[Nicolette Glazer @NicoletteGlazer]

UPDATE on the Adjustment of Status Memo application:
I can confirm from two separate, reliable sources that USCIS officers were applying the New "NoAOS" memo today during IR interviews and in pending cases and are asking questions about both why the applicant is not consular processing and asking a lot of probing questions on clean cases. During neither of the two interviews, reference was made to the Friday memo.

[Julian Andreone @JulianAndreone]

Not a single word of this is true

[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

The United States is trapped in their negotiations with Iran.

The Trump Administration, quite clearly, is desperate to end the Iran War. As has been a common theme throughout this conflict, President Trump was sold a pipe dream. A silver bullet, that Iran would be easily toppled like Maduro in Venezuela.

But then they took control over the Strait of Hormuz.

Now, almost three months later, ~1.1 BILLION barrels of oil are permanently offline, 20% of global fertilizer is not reaching the market, and the odds of a global economic recession are through the roof.

The second pipe dream that Washington was sold is that the blockade and economic warfare campaign would bring Iran to their knees.

It hasn’t. And it won’t. But it does hurt.

The Iranian regime and Iranian people, as a direct result of decades of U.S. sanctions, have been calloused to economic hardship. Battle tested. The argument that a couple of extra months of “slightly more” economic constriction would be what puts them over the edge as they wage an existential war for their existence against the Great and Little Satan was entirely delusional.

But that does not mean that Iran is living the dream economically.

It is clear that the United States has zero military options remaining. Operation Economic Fury may have “destroyed” the Iranian Air Force and Iranian Navy… but yet, the Strait of Hormuz is still closed. It may have wiped out their missiles and drones (so CENTCOM claims)… but yet, the Strait of Hormuz is still closed.

Operation Freedom, the ridiculous and quickly canceled delusion that called for the U.S. to “guide” vessel through the Strait accomplished nothing.

There is zero domestic U.S. support for putting hundreds of thousands of American boots on the ground for yet another war in the Middle East that may or may not even be successful.

So the only option remaining to achieve victory in the U.S. War against Iran is the economic warfare campaign.

Except it is now abundantly clear that the Iranian’s have an exponentially greater pain tolerance than the United States, and far beyond that of the rest of the world. But it is the only viable pathway to victory for the United States.

But it is clear that Iran can outlast the United States in this economic game of chicken.

Iran currently holds more than 1,000 vessels “hostage” in the Strait of Hormuz, and is able to watch as the world’s emergency energy reserves begin to collapse. The runway Washington once had is now gone. And the only way Iran can be compelled to relieve this pressure on the U.S. and world economy by releasing these hostage vessels and temporarily reopening the Strait is by being paid off.

But once that happens, and it WILL happen, the only viable (but perhaps only 1% likelihood) pathway to US victory is gone forever.

Once Iran is paid to reopen the Strait and release these hostage vessels, every ounce of economic pain the U.S. has imposed over the last 43 days of the blockade is gone. Iran will be able to stabilize, and the U.S. will be left with not a single avenue to success.

But it is inevitable.

The reality facing the Trump Administration is that they are trapped. The only way to compel Iran to relieve the global economic disaster is to pay them. Upfront and irreversibly.

And once that happens, the jig is up, and the United States has lost.

[Hammad H Rind حماد حسن رند @HammadHRind]

@khatmal23 ترکی کے لفظ ایل یعنی قوم یا قبیلے اور لاحقے چی (جو ہمارے یہاں خزانچی اور باورچی وغیرہ میں بھی مستعمل ہے) کا مرکب۔ ترکی کے لاطینی خط میں elçi لکھتے ہیں۔

[akbar hassan @khatmal23]

ان ایام میں مجھے ایلچی لفظ بہت یاد آتا ہے۔ اردو کے میرے پسندیدہ الفاظ میں لفظِ ایلچی بھی شامل ہے

[molly taft @mollytaft]

pope broke him

[akbar hassan @khatmal23]

One of my favorite marsiyas from the collection

[akbar hassan @khatmal23]

کعبۂ رب سے چلا آہوئے صحرائے ببلا
اُس طرف رخ تھا لیے جاتی تھی جس سمت قضا
اب جہاں جا کے بھی منزل ہو توکل بخدا
راہ میں عشرۂ ذی الحجہ کو ہوا حشر بپا
روزِ اول خبرِ رحلتِ ہانی آئی
عید کا دن تھا کہ مسلم کی سنانی آئی

نسیم امروہوی

https://t.co/XUEpNoQkGK

[Mohammad Taqi @mazdaki]

Two of the greatest with Peshawar valley connections. Prithviraj ji from Peshawar city and Madhubala’s family from Maneri, Swabi

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

How is this not the headline in every major news outlet?