Muhammad kashif

Long Live Pakistan

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

[Yousuf Nazar @YousufNazar]

Almost all of Pakistan's current discourse about the political economy is increasingly out of date. Even some of the leading names do not seem to grasp what has changed in the last 30 years or so. Hence, it will be greatly instructive to read what @yuenyuenang has to say. Please read: https://t.co/3gga7WbXiI

[Andrey Mir @Andrey4Mir]

A previously unknown McLuhan one-liner has just been revealed.
Marshall McLuhan's last seminar in 1978–79 had only six students. One of them was B.W. Powe.
In this interview, Powe reveals a previously unpublished McLuhan aphorism and shares memories of his conversations with McLuhan.
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[Muhammad kashif @mkashifpanjutha]

@DrMianSaeedPSP Say no to moral policing

[Rabia Akhtar @Rabs_AA]

My response in @TFT_ to @ForeignAffairs article by @NarangVipin & @pranayrvaddi. The claim that Pakistan seeks ICBMs to target the U.S. is strategically detached from Pakistan’s doctrinal realities.

Rebuttal: Pakistan In The New Nuclear Age https://t.co/fMgZ0d3vwd

[Muhammad kashif @mkashifpanjutha]

@SaminaRBaloch @grok is it true

[Muhammad kashif @mkashifpanjutha]

@grok @asifalivirk995 @abdulwahab83351 @danirana_DR @KhanMobeena J. Ka sab sa zyada long lasting perfume knsa ha

[Jasir Shahbaz @LahoreMarquez]

Arzu hai kay tu yahan ayee
Aur phir umr bhar na jaye kahin

Nasir Kazmi’s words and indomitable Noor Jahan. Such a mood for rainy Lahore

[Asad Ali Shah @Asad_Ashah]

We forced a military giant to back down—but can’t fix our broken classrooms or deliver court verdict on time.
Pakistan’s defence is disciplined and strategic.
Our governance? Dysfunctional by design.
The real enemy isn’t India. It’s the rot within.
Read my latest:
“Unpacking Governance Dysfunction – Part II”

https://t.co/TC82IjTFhE

[Fasi Zaka @fasi_zaka]

Today is the day to listen to this song again.

Vital Sign’s “Oonchi” - their PAF song

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“Social change is often a fundamental cause of significant political violence in a society. And the social change that we've been going through for the last 10 years is the transition from a white majority democracy to a white minority multiracial democracy.”
https://t.co/JHm6Qx9Lx2

[Muhammad kashif @mkashifpanjutha]

@time_chaser_ @hurriahotiana Yes but still we can expect mkc from a high IQ level.

[Muhammad kashif @mkashifpanjutha]

@time_chaser_ @hurriahotiana Big Data is watching you

[Yousuf Nazar @YousufNazar]

A Conversation on Modern Education with Iqbal Latif

Q: How do you distinguish between true education and conventional schooling?

Education is fundamentally about awakening the human spirit of inquiry. While conventional schooling often reduces learning to memorizing facts and passing tests, true education cultivates an understanding of our place in the cosmos. It's about engaging with the grand narrative of existence—from the Big Bang to human consciousness—and exploring how philosophy, science, and human thought interconnect.

Traditional schooling has become paradoxically limiting in an age of unlimited information access. Instead of confining young minds to rigid syllabi, we should be teaching them how to navigate, question, and synthesize the vast knowledge available at their fingertips. Real education empowers learners to think critically and deeply about the world around them.

Q: How would you implement this vision of education in practice?

I advocate for a cosmic approach to learning. Begin with the universe's story—this provides the fundamental context for all other knowledge. From there, introduce children to philosophy and science not as isolated subjects, but as interconnected tools for understanding our reality.

Mathematics, physics, and biology shouldn't be taught as abstract disciplines but as lenses through which we can understand the patterns and processes that shape our world. Every lesson should encourage students to ask "why?"—why does the universe behave as it does? How did life emerge and evolve? What makes our consciousness possible?

The key is to cultivate the mindset of a Socratic inquirer—someone who approaches every subject with genuine curiosity and systematic questioning. This develops both critical thinking and a natural love of learning.

Q: What would a school based on these principles look like?

Imagine an Academy of Inquiry, modeled after the ancient Greek schools but equipped for the 21st century. Here, traditional subject boundaries dissolve. Students might explore anthropology, astrophysics, and neuroscience in the same session, discovering the hidden connections between these fields.

The physical space would encourage exploration and dialogue. Instead of rigid classrooms, picture learning spaces designed for discussion, experimentation, and collaborative discovery. Technology would serve not as a crutch but as a tool for extending our intellectual reach.

The curriculum would be dynamic, responding to students' questions and interests while ensuring they develop core analytical and creative capabilities. The goal isn't to produce walking encyclopedias but to nurture minds capable of deep understanding, critical analysis, and innovative thinking.

Q: In today's job-focused world, how would this type of education prepare students for practical success?

This question reflects a common but limiting view of education's purpose. The greatest innovators in history—consider the Renaissance masters—weren't trained for specific jobs. Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael excelled precisely because they transcended traditional boundaries. Raphael's "School of Athens" demonstrates profound philosophical understanding; Michelangelo's David reveals mastery of anatomy and mathematics.

Today's rapidly changing world demands exactly what this education provides: adaptable thinking, deep understanding, and creative problem-solving abilities. When you truly comprehend how the world works—from physical laws to human behavior—you develop an invaluable capacity to identify opportunities and create solutions.

Our graduates won't just find jobs; they'll create new possibilities. They'll have the intellectual tools to recognize emerging needs, adapt to changing circumstances, and innovate across disciplines. Their education won't prepare them for a single career but for a lifetime of meaningful contribution and personal growth.

@ilatif

[Muhammad kashif @mkashifpanjutha]

I can't believe how has this man satisfied hundred of atheists?

[KHURRAM @Khurram_zakir]

واجد احساس پنجاب یونیورسٹی کا طالب علم جو کہ چار سال پہلے شیطانی تعلیمات اور دجالی سوشل میڈیا کی وجہ سے اسلامی تعلیمات سے دور ہو گیا تھا رات اسکو ڈاکٹر ذاکر نائیک نے منطق اور علم کے ذریعہ دوبارہ اسلامی تعلیمات پر کاربند کر دیا واجد احساس نے کہا کہ وہ شیطان کے بہکاوے میں آ گیا تھا ڈاکٹر صاحب کے منطقی اور علمی جواب نے اس کی آنکھیں کھول دیں اور اس نے دوبارہ سے اسلامی تعلیمات سے رجوع اور پچھلی غلطیوں پر معافی مانگ لی
ڈاکٹر صاحب اس دور کے بہترین عالم دین ہیں 💐

[Muhammad kashif @mkashifpanjutha]

@safarrnamah What about Syed Babar Ali

[Muhammad kashif @mkashifpanjutha]

@safarrnamah So are you labelling pak army the new Talibans of Pakistan?

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Why does the Biden administration support the Israeli genocide and war crimes even in the face of virtually universal condemnation, at massive expense, and to the point of totally debasing the rules-based international order? Why do it?

People fall back on narratives about the power of AIPAC in US elections etc, which is real but also doesn't capture the whole story. The truth is that US capitalism depends on it, and the US ruling class broadly understands this fact.

The key thing to understand is that capitalist growth and accumulation in the imperial core (the US, Britain, Germany etc) relies heavily on the appropriation of cheap inputs and resources from the periphery and semi-periphery of the world economy (broadly, the global South). They need the South remain a subordinated supplier within global commodity chains.

In order to maintain this arrangement, it is imperative for them to suppress sovereign economic development in the South. Because the "problem" with development is it means Southerners begin to produce for themselves and consume their own resources. This makes resources and inputs more expensive for the core, which constrains consumption and profits.

Economic sovereignty in the periphery threatens capital accumulation in the core. To avoid this, the core states constantly intervene to prevent or crush any movement or government in the periphery that seeks national liberation and economic sovereignty.

The US started to support the Zionist project in the 1960s, and invested heavily in the Israeli arms industry, with the explicit intention of using Israel as a staging ground—a massive military base—for counter-revolutionary interventions against rising Arab socialist and national liberation struggles in North Africa and the Middle East. The US could not accept the prospect of sovereign development in that region: liberation movements had to be crushed or destabilized and they used Israel to help them do it. Israel is not an "ally" in the conventional sense. It is a proxy.

They support Israel for the exact same reasons that they have backed assassinations or coups against liberation leaders across the global South: Mosaddegh, Lumumba, Nkrumah, Allende, Arbenz, Sukarno, Sankara...

Israel assassinates movement leaders in the Middle East and interferes in regional political processes, all in concert with the US, but it also constantly bombs the frontline states, destabilizing their societies and economies and forcing them to divert resources toward defensive spending rather than industrial development. The Zionist project is intolerable not only because it is murderously hell-bent on ethnically cleansing Palestine, but because it creates chaos and instability across the whole region.

The core states used South Africa in the very same way. The key reason that Western powers supported the apartheid regime in South Africa – against overwhelming international condemnation – was because it served as a highly militarized Western colonial outpost that was geared up to run counter-insurgency operations not only within South Africa, but also in Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, the DRC, etc., leaving immense violence and chaos in its wake.

The vast majority of the world—and international law itself—supports Palestinian liberation, but Palestinian liberation would constrain Israeli power and open the way to regional liberation movements, and this is strongly antithetical to the interests of Western capital. So this is the situation we are in. The Western ruling classes are willing to back obscene violence in Gaza, and shred the liberal values they claim to believe in, because they want to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation and geopolitical hegemony.

You cannot appeal to imperial power in moral terms. The only way the US will stop propping up the Zionist regime is when it becomes too costly for them to do so. This will come down to the strength of the resistance and regional political and military opposition, but also the extent to which people can coordinate boycotts, divestment and sanctions, and punitive measures under international law.

[Shahid Mehmood @ShahidMohmand79]

Thread-Neither is Pakistan’s economy ‘stable’ not has it escaped the perennial NAZUK MOR!About a week ago,I posed this question and tried to elicit public’s opinion.There wasn’t any response,which isn’t a surprise given the obsession with entertainment, politics and charlatans 1/