Momina Mustehsan

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

Not just a historic Olympic moment for Pakistan, but a historic moment for the Olympics!! 🥹

#ArshadNadeem 👏🏻 👏🏻 the inspiration we all needed!

[The Olympic Games @Olympics]

#GOLD AND AN #OLYMPICRECORD! 🇵🇰

Arshad Nadeem shines, earning #gold for Pakistan in men's javelin throw.

@NOCPakistan | @worldathletics | #Athletics
#Paris2024 | #Samsung | #TogetherforTomorrow

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

BREAKING: UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution on “protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations” on the ongoing Gaza crisis

FOR: 120
AGAINST: 14
ABSTAIN: 45

LIVE COVERAGE
https://t.co/MOnKoTdNsb

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

This isn't about Jews vs. Muslims. It never was. There are many Jews who oppose the genocide, & there are many Palestinians who aren't Muslims. This is about those who support genocide & settler colonialism vs. those who oppose it. Don't let anyone turn this into a religious war.

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

If “equally” is the keyword here, WHY the disparity in support? While tens of billions of TAX PAYER dollars are pledged to Israel to continue its bombardment, Palestine barely gets A FRACTION for LIFE SAVING aid!
HOW then are we trying to approach reaching peace? #CeasefireNOW 🙏🏼

[Department of State @StateDept]

Israel and Palestinians equally deserve to live in safety, dignity, and peace. We cannot give up on a two-state solution. — @POTUS

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

RELEASE #KhadijaShah NOW!
The judicial system of Pakistan CANNOT REMAIN SO BROKEN while we raise our voices in the global arena to STOP violations of Human Rights!
I IMPLORE @anwaar_kakar @ArifAlvi to look INWARD and prioritize giving justice to ALL suffering within our own state

[khadija siddiqi @khadijasid751]

#KhadijaShah was granted bail in both FIRs by LHC, a case of no evidence, bogus and fabricated.

Prosecution case lambasted & clear case of acquittal..

Yet the desperation to keep prisoners of conscience behind bars for an indefinite period is shameful to say the least.

THIRD FRIVOLOUS FIR.

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

For those wanting to learn the history of Palestine and Gaza’s struggle for freedom, please watch this heart-wrenching documentary by @AbbyMartin. It is from 2019, and 4 years later, the issues have only escalated and worsened.

#FreePalestine

https://t.co/tgIXpYVBum

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

Allow the delivery of humanitarian aid NOW. #FreePalestine

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

It’s impossible to be at the Rafah crossing & not feel heartbroken.

Behind these walls there are 2 million people in Gaza with no water, food, medicine, fuel.

On this side, these trucks have what they need.

We need to make them move—as soon as possible, as many as necessary.

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

“When you grow up in a conflict zone, or in any fragmented or polarized society, it’s natural for each side to dehumanize the other. But if that filter shatters, you can never go back. And the moment their full humanity struck me, I had that crazy thought that changed my life...”

[Ami Dar @AmiDar]

So when and how did I realize that we are all fully human behind these lines that separate us? I was born in Jerusalem, and raised mostly in Peru and in Mexico. When I was 15, my family moved back to Israel, and at 18 I was drafted into the Israeli army for three years of compulsory service.

A year later, my unit was stationed on the Syrian border, and my job was to spend several hours each day alone on a watchtower, looking through a telescope across the barbed wire and the minefields, trying to spot any strange movements on the other side.

One afternoon—I remember it was a cool, beautiful winter day—I suddenly had a thought that made me laugh out loud. I laughed because the idea was childish but also true, in that way that children have of recognizing the truth.

A few months earlier, getting to know the guys in my unit, I’d realized gratefully that some of them would give me their last pair of dry socks if I ever needed them. But there were also a few who might steal mine if I wasn’t careful.

That image was on my mind that afternoon, when through the telescope I saw a group of Syrian soldiers playing a game of soccer across the valley that separated us. And instantly, something about the situation—that moment of play, their running around like kids—humanized them in my eyes in a way that was entirely new and fresh and different.

When you grow up in a conflict zone, or in any fragmented or polarized society, it’s natural for each side to dehumanize the other. But if that filter shatters, you can never go back. And the moment their full humanity struck me, I had that crazy thought that changed my life.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute," I thought. If in my unit, and in every other unit I know, there are some guys I’d trust with my life, and others I’d rather stay away from, then in *that* unit this must also be the case. And if that’s true, then this whole border fence is running the wrong way. Instead of Syrians on one side and Israelis on the other, wouldn’t it make more sense for the sock-sharers on both sides to get together?

And that’s when I laughed. I laughed, yet this idea stayed with me, and still haunts me now. Since then I’ve learned that life is more complicated, and that the line between good and bad runs within each of us. And yet… I can't undo what I felt that day, and it's shaped my life ever since.

[UN Women @UN_Women]

We call for:
📢An immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
📢Unrestricted access for humanitarian aid.
📢Safety of civilians and civilian infrastructure.
📢The immediate release of hostages.

#Gaza #NotATarget

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

I OPPOSE the policies and practices of the Israeli government. The people of Palestine have been oppressed, besieged and denied their human rights for DECADES. This genocide needs to STOP.
However, it brings me NO joy to see civilian casualties even on the side of the oppressor.

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

I grieve with my Jewish friends for the innocent lives lost
I grieve with Muslims & Christians of Palestine for countless lives taken daily, for decades
How many lives are enough? How much land is enough?
Collective punishment of besieged & oppressed community is against humanity

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

An unprecedented catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes.

📍#Gaza is being strangled and the world seems to have lost its humanity.

Every hour we receive more and more desperate calls for help from people across the Gaza Strip.

- @UNLazzarini ⬇️
https://t.co/YaR94tFp8q

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

I believe in HUMANITY & the preservation of human lives FOREMOST over ALL state politics, all religions, all belief systems.

If I havent been posting the same material on here that I’m posting on Instagram, doesn’t mean everyone has to come at me, abuse me and will for me to die

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

@mahrukhiqbal_s They actually do, very much. They have been leading protests in NYC calling for an end to the genocide and asking the state of Israel to stop killing in their name.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

This is Gaza, the world's biggest prison.

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

What an extraordinary cricket match!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Can’t remember the last time I watched such a nail-biter!
@ZamanKhanPak what a debut!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Congratulations Sri Lanka!
#PAKvSL

[AJ+ @ajplus]

The UN secretary-general says the planet is now experiencing a “climate breakdown” after record heat in 2023.

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

The 70s was a very interesting decade to say the least. Seeded conflict, destabilization and radicalization of many many regions across the globe originate in this particular period.
Wonder how the world would have looked today had it not been so manipulated then.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Here’s why Henry Kissinger is still reviled in Chile 50 years after the Chilean coup.

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

@Twitter is asking legacy @premiumbusiness accounts to remove two-factor authentication, else they’ll be locked out. Ofc its to get them to pay for #TwitterBlue, but wasn’t verification extended to accounts more susceptible to hacking/impersonation to begin with?@elonmusk bhai, what? 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Momina Mustehsan @MominaMustehsan]

@Javedakhtarjadu Saab, it was an honor for me to sing your words in #Afreen. But sir, you were a guest in our country at an APOLITICAL forum. Why did you have to do us so dirty, when all we extended to you was love and respect? Being “frank” is not synonymous with unmannerliness.