"Are the subsidies on petroleum and natural gas the expenses that have brought Pakistan to the brink of default? Or was it the $17.4 billion that are consumed by elite privileges every year?"
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جبری گمشدگیوں کا شکار ہونے سے کوئی بھی محفوظ نہیں حتیٰ کہ ایک فوٹوگرافر یا فلم میکر بھی نہیں جو اپنےعلاقے کی خوبصورتی اور فطری مناظر کی فوٹوگرافی کرتا ہو۔۔۔
“Since the beginning of the new phase of the insurgency in Balochistan, dozens of leading intellectuals, writers and journalists have been killed — from Prof Saba Dashtyari to Prof Ghamkhwar Hayat, who was recently killed in Noshki. On the one hand, the state claims that it has invested heavily in the education sector and set up dozens of universities across the province. On the other, it remains apprehensive about political and intellectual activities on university campuses”.
By @AmirRana
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Correction. Blinkit didn't create 1,85,000 jobs. It created 1,85,000 people who own their own vehicles, pay for their own fuel, have no fixed salary, no PF, no ESI, no sick leave, no job security and are one algorithm update away from losing their entire income.
These men work 12-14 hours a day across three apps simultaneously just to clear twenty thousand a month. No company bears the cost of their health, their accident, their family. They are not employees but infrastructure. Invisible, replaceable and deliberately kept contractor coded so the balance sheet stays clean.
The 'jobs created' number is a marketing figure. It counts every delivery partner who ever downloaded the app. It does not count how many quit. How many were injured with zero compensation. How many are still waiting for their incentive payout.
And yes this entire ecosystem exists because people are too comfortable to walk to a market. That comfort is being subsidized by men who cannot afford the same comfort themselves.
And I don't give a shit about kunal kamra or raghav chaddha.
First learn the difference between a job and a gig before you make a PowerPoint about it.
If I ever come to power I'm gonna pull a Mao and force all the Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad upper middle class urbanites to go live in the countryside so they can see for themselves what the economic situation is for the rest of the country
All the pro-state social democrats are now "anti-imperialists."
They now openly oppose national movements domestically while supporting them internationally for the revolutionary aesthetics, all under the garb of anti-imperialism.
Pakistan's army has spent seventy-eight years deploying its soldiers across the world, to Gulf palaces, UN peacekeeping missions, Libyan arms deals, and now a Saudi air base, without a single parliamentary vote on any of it. The institution that accomplished all of this is also the country's largest commercial conglomerate, its most powerful political actor, and the entity that has determined the tenure of every elected prime minister since independence. The export has been very good specifically for the army. We attempt to map the entire history in one article.
https://t.co/TUUF1LnpjB
1/7 The villages of Bharwala, Khanpur, and Mohra Faiz are gone. Around 1,000 families lost their homes, their fields, and the graves of their ancestors to build Rawalpindi's water dam. They have not been resettled. Here is what the national press could not report about why:
https://t.co/0OjEbzGobb
Comrade @ShabbirMayar has been arrested for just going to Gilgit from his village for a medical checkup. He is a heart patient and is not allowed to leave his village even for medical treatment.
Shame on this fascism.
#ReleaseShabbirMayar
The "ceasefire" in Lebanon is an instrument of surrender by a Lebanese government that has no legitimacy. SS and his supporters are giving their support to a document that would disarm the resistance against Israel and allows Israel to occupy and attack Lebanon at its whims.
I welcome the announcement of a ceasefire in Lebanon, facilitated through bold and sagacious diplomatic efforts led by President Donald Trump, and express the hope that it will pave the way for sustainable peace.
Pakistan reaffirms its unwavering support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Lebanon, and will continue to support all efforts aimed at lasting peace in the region .
Ryan Grim, and many on the supposed international left, are part of the Zionist psyop.
The Zionist psyop creates conditions that supports eternal war as that suits Israel’s war doctrine.
The sooner some of you realise that the better.
The idea that everyone *has* to feel proud of any accomplishment of the Pakistani state is so tone-deaf and stupid that it's infuriating.
Should we forget that the same state is murdering Baloch people every day? Drone striking civilians in KPK?
The lackeys of imperialists, who talk of peace on one side and kill innocents on the other, deserve no credit.
As Castro said, "Those who have chained humanity for centuries cannot teach us anything."
We absolutely do not have to "hand it to" child murderers and despots for anything.
The only ones actually deserving of our support are the heroic peoples of Cuba, Iran, Yemen, Palestine and Lebanon, who have brought imperialism to its knees and are giving their lives everyday.
Iran has accomplished what no state has been able to do before. It held the cards until the end, and controlled the ladder of escalation.
This is Iran's victory, and the victory of all anti-imperialist forces across the world.
Death to the US Empire🔻
Karachi Port and Port Qasim handling record cargo Shipments daily ( 350k tonnes )
New vessels parked at Gawadar port carrying 14k tonnes cargo ( 16k tonnes handled on 3rd April)
Pakistani ports are officially the regional shipping hubs