Moneir Aslam

Reading, learning, unlearning, relearning... Travel. Bibliophile. Occasional columnist. RTs not necessarily endorsements.

[Moneir Aslam @moneir27]

@RRehmanpk واہ واہ، بہت عمدہ

[Moneir Aslam @moneir27]

Ibn Arabi

[Moneir Aslam @moneir27]

Back in 1951 the Brits weren't too fond of the Persians nationalisation of their oil! Not much seems to have changed over the years...

[Alifya Sohail @AlifyaSohail]

BREAKING: Jailed Pakistani lawyers Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha have been awarded the Ludovic-Trarieux Human Rights Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious human rights honours for lawyers. The award was first bestowed on Nelson Mandela in 1985 while he was imprisoned by South Africa’s apartheid regime.

[Moneir Aslam @moneir27]

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بجٹ 2026

[Shafqat Ch @shafqatmm1]

وفاقی بجٹ 2026 -27
⬅️اضافے
1. دفاع:
2550 ارب سے بڑھ کر 3000 ارب
2. بینظیر انکم سپورٹ
838 ارب سے بڑھ کر 850 ارب

⬅️کٹوتیاں
تعلیم
93 ارب سے کم ہو کر 74 ارب
صحت
80 ارب سے کم ہو کر 22 ارب

اس پر فٹے منہ روکنے کیلئے پیکا آرڈیننس ہے

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

In 1290 all Jews were driven out of England. In 1306 they were expelled from France. In 1430 exiled from Germany, followed by Spain and Portugal. Boycotted in Italy, and time after time tossed out of every major European city.

After the centuries of expulsions, in 1492, Muslims (The Ottoman Empire) opened their doors for the Jewish. in the late 17th and 18th centuries, as the Ottoman Empire became less stable, Jews were finally allowed back into England after 366 years of total banishment.

After 1848, hundreds of thousands of Jews left Central Europe to escape rising nationalism and "pogroms" (anti-Jewish riots).

After WWI, Britain took control of Palestine from the Ottomans. From 1917 to 1939, Muslims (Palestine) opened their doors for the Jewish as usual.

In 2026, some Western politicians lecturing us (Muslims) on how to live peacefully with Jews!

Read some history.

[Moneir Aslam @moneir27]

@niyetsel Peaceful

[Ahmad Farhad @AhmadFarhadReal]

ان پیڈ ٹاوٹ حرامخوروں کے لیے جو کشمیریوں کو پاکستان اور پاکستانیوں کا دشمن ثابت کرنے پر تلے ہیں۔مظفرآباد ہیلی کاپٹر کی تباہی کا منظر دیکھتے ہوئے کشمیری ماوں اور لوگوں کا افسوس اور دکھ ملاحظہ کریں۔

[Mohammad Zubair @Real_MZubair]

Target for major agricultural crops was 6.7% set by the government for this fiscal year.
Actual achievement 0.6%.
Nothing can define the economic failure more than this

[Moneir Aslam @moneir27]

Disorderly! But the owner knows which one is where...😉

[Moneir Aslam @moneir27]

The neighbourhood butcher's upfront PR...

[Ruba @RRehmanpk]

Life finds a way 💜

[Haroun Rashid @HarounRashid2]

Couldn’t resist this one!

Police Station 🤣

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@HarounRashid2 😅

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Straits of Hormuz are named after Ahura Mazda from Zoroastrianism

[Moneir Aslam @moneir27]

@RRehmanpk That's sad to know. Reassuring to know of your fight back. More power to you.

[Rubab @rubabbx]

6,000 years ago.

Before the Pyramids.
Before Mesopotamia.
Before the Bronze Age reached Europe.

A craftsman in Balochistan had already invented the casting technique NASA would use 6,000 years later.

The Mehrgarh Wheel Amulet. Sibi District. Balochistan. 1985.

A 2 centimetre corroded copper wheel with six spokes. It sat in storage for decades. Dismissed as a simple prehistoric trinket.

Then scientists at the SOLEIL synchrotron in France put it under UV photoluminescence imaging and published what they found in Nature Communications in 2016.

No seams. No joints. No soldering. Cast as a single seamless piece from pure copper at 1,085 degrees Celsius.

The oldest known example of lost wax casting in human history.

The process: sculpt the shape in beeswax. Encase it in clay. Fire it in a kiln. The wax melts out. Pour in molten copper. Smash the clay. Pull out a perfect metal object.

This is the same method used to cast surgical implants today. The same concept behind precision aerospace components. The same technique NASA used to build parts for the International Space Station.

The craftsman who made this wheel was not guessing. The scanning revealed they deliberately kept the wax model thin and uniform so molten copper would flow evenly through all six spokes simultaneously. They understood fluid dynamics. In 4,000 BC. In Balochistan.

Pakistan is not just a young nation with an ancient medieval past.

Pakistan is where the human mind first learned to master metal. 🇵🇰

Did you know the casting technique used by NASA was invented 6,000 years ago in Balochistan?

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@NASA @UNESCO @Nature @archaeologyart @Pakistan