Fahad Khan

Law’14 @LifeatLUMS | Writer and Columnist @The_Nation | Chai, Kitabien aur Marlboro Filterplus

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

To borrow from Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I say: "To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with [Attan].”

[Mir 🌻 @MirSanaullah]

Zama watan dy da guloono watan,
Da bahaaruno o rangoono watan

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

@dawarhbutt Given yesterday’s (deliberate) mismanagement on polling stations, this term needs categorisation: the real turnout and the allowed turnout. The latter might be around 50%; the former was indeed more than 60%.

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

Political parties in Pakistan have internalized that appeasing the military is the only sure way to access power corridors. That means the winning party is always the one that allows the Army the most power over civilian affairs.

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

Some 2.5 years later, I wrote this piece. The only constant is pessimism.
Maybe it’s best to ask if Pakistan’s 2024 election is to be called a general election, or a generals’ election.
Rarely has an election result here truly conveyed the people’s will.
https://t.co/cQGguWhiXf

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

The establishment has already stolen people’s mandate to elect national leadership this Thursday.
In Pakistan, the scramble for power among the political parties is like an invitation for bids from the Army.

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

Establishment has stole People’s mandate in the past; it’ll do the same on February 8th. What we are witnessing against PTI, though, is a repeat of what was done to PML-N in 2018, but on a grand scale. Rarely, election results have conveyed people’s true will transparently.

[Lok Sujag @lok_sujag]

An elected government dismissed, a draconian ruler imposed, a political party crushed. This is the story of first provincial elections in NWFP after independence. This is a tale of stolen verdicts!
Watch the first episode of our documentary series – "Stolen Verdicts"
#election2024 #elections #onlinecourse #earlybirddiscount #registernow #pollingagent #success #votingday

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

@ghorraykhan گھوڑے خان! لکھاری نے ایک طنزیہ تحریر لکھی ہے۔ اور تاریخ کے حوالے دے کر موجودہ قاضی کو مبہم انداز میں نظریہ ضرورت کو دفن کرنے کی استدعا کی ہے۔

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

RIP. What a great loss the world of journalism has suffered in the last days of 2023!

[John Pilger @johnpilger]

It is with great sadness the family of John Pilger announce he died yesterday 30 December 2023 in London aged 84. His journalism and documentaries were celebrated around the world, but to his family he was simply the most amazing and loved Dad, Grandad and partner. Rest In Peace.

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

“The Palestinians have been paying for the British colonial policy of “divide & rule” & for Europe’s guilty Christian conscience for more than (75) years.”Baldwin’s analysis would’ve been more accurate had he called out US’s abetment of Israel’s violation of pre-67 borders.

[New Left Review @NewLeftReview]

Tariq Ali (@TariqAli_News) on the uprising in Palestine:

'Israel is a nuclear state, armed to the teeth by the US. Its existence is not under threat. It’s the Palestinians, their lands, their lives, that are.'

https://t.co/LXbKfUuaYB

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

@J_Sukhera Nai tey phair aya Ghori 🤣

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

Read the caption.

[Jairam Ramesh @Jairam_Ramesh]

The 7th Non-Aligned Summit took place without much hype and self-serving publicity in New Delhi for five days in March 1983. Incidentally, this was the Summit to which Fidel Castro brought along Gabriel Garcia Marquez as part of the Cuban delegation. Now, of course, the self-styled Vishwaguru refers to these countries as the Global South.

[Tariq Ali @TariqAli_News]

Check out this article from @nytimes. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. https://t.co/MW1iKBHoJR

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

@J_Sukhera On every level. On average, every Pakistani consumes 24 litres of edible oil annually.

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

Alexander Pushkin likhta hey:

“Nothing so inflames love as an encouraging observation from an outsider. Love is blind and, not trusting itself, hastily seizes upon any support.”

— The Moor of Peter the Great

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

Masha Allah. Brother Alhaajj AbdulNoam Chomsky becoming Muslimer as the beard suggests.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Wow, this is exceedingly rare.

The immense Noam Chomsky was given a whole 8 minutes on Piers Morgan to explain how the US is provoking China into war, and he does a brilliant job at it.

An absolute must-watch if you want to understand what's happening.

He explains how the US is 1) "abandoning the One-China policy" that has "held the peace in the region for 50 years", 2) increasingly "encircling China with a ring of sentinel states armed with advanced precision weapons aimed at China" and 3) waging "a war to prevent China from developing", all the while gaslighting the world into believing it's China that's changing the status quo.

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

@ghorraykhan 🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️

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@ghorraykhan 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@AhmadJShah @punnu__khan 🤣

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

Weinberger writes, "[Muhammad] used amber, musk & civet as perfumes, & spent more money on perfume than on food; days later, people would know from the lingering fragrance that he had passed by." In this age of fitna, let's revive Effendimiz Hazrat Muhammad's beautiful sunnah.

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@J_Sukhera Jahan Singh Sukhera

[Fahad Khan @plasticreader]

@MirzaWaheed He’s as clear eyed as ever for a reason: Allama Mishra Jhansi Sarkar is Peeran-e-Peer.