On National Minorities Day, we remember the Quaid's words to the Constituent Assembly on 11 August 1947: every citizen is free to go to their temple, church, or mosque — for religion, caste, and creed have nothing to do with the business of the State. A promise this nation was founded on.
🇵🇰 #MinoritiesDay #SabKaPakistan #11August
“Let’s talk about Tibet”?
Sure.
Tibet is part of China.
What Beijing has never accepted is the idea that a British colonial administrator could sit down with a ruler from British India, draw the McMahon Line across disputed territory, and permanently settle China’s borders without China’s consent.
Colonial cartography is not sovereignty.
London drawing a line on someone else’s land did not magically turn that line into historical truth.
India inherited a British imperial claim and now treats the inheritance certificate as sacred scripture.
Beijing never accepted it.
So no, this is not “China weaponizing nomenclature.”
It is India demanding that China recognize a colonial border China never recognized in the first place.
And the funniest part is the word “Bharat” being deployed as anti-colonial theater while defending a frontier drawn by the British Empire.
You cannot decolonize the nameplate while worshipping the colonial map.
پاکستان کی خوبصورتی اس کے مختلف رنگوں میں ہے، اور اس کی طاقت اس اتحاد میں جو ہمیں ایک قوم بناتا ہے۔
یومِ اقلیت کے موقع پر ہم پاکستان کی تمام مذہبی برادریوں کی اُن خدمات اور کردار کو خراجِ تحسین پیش کرتے ہیں جو ملک کی ترقی، خوشحالی اور قومی زندگی میں اپنا حصہ ڈال رہی ہیں۔
قائداعظمؒ کے 11 اگست 1947 کے وژن کی روشنی میں، ہماری مختلف شناختیں ہماری قومی وحدت کے راستے میں رکاوٹ نہیں، بلکہ پاکستان کے خوبصورت رنگ ہیں۔
مختلف عقیدے، مختلف ثقافتیں، مگر پاکستان سب کا۔
#قومی_اقلیتوں_کا_دن
#مساوی_حقوق_مضبوط_پاکستان
#11اگست
🚨🇨🇳 TRAILER — Chinese film flips Hollywood script, casting America as the invader.
“Once Upon a Time in the Middle East” follows a Chinese restaurant owner fighting to survive a U.S. invasion.
Once Upon a Time in the Middle East is China’s hottest movie right now.
Based on a true story: a Chinese chef opens a restaurant in Iraq during the early 2000s war. He goes there just to make a living and pay off his debts. When the war breaks out, this ordinary guy ends up protecting children and the wounded in the middle of the rubble.
But it’s more than a survival story.
This is Chinese cinema finally telling the world’s stories through Chinese eyes — not just using foreign settings as backdrop for Chinese concerns.
Why do the world’s stories only come from Hollywood? Why can’t we compare different versions — the American soldiers’ “hero” narrative, or an ordinary Chinese cook making food for kids in the ruins?
For people in developing countries, it quietly raises questions that usually get ignored:
Whose bombs destroyed their homes?
Who actually wants them to stand on their own?
Art is never just art. What we see shapes how we understand the world. More voices mean a better chance of real and objective understanding.
The movie is not about “casting other nation as the invader”.
Just a different lens from Hollywood — showing the real suffering of ordinary people in war.
Worth watching.
Yesterday, I gathered with residents at the Allama Iqbal Community Center’s Mela to commemorate Pakistan’s Independence Day and honor the contributions Pakistani New Yorkers have made to our city.
Today and everyday, we celebrate this community whose open arms, determination, and dreams for a better life have helped shape the city they call home.
Saw Main Vaapas Aaunga movie yesterday.
Understood why my late parents who came from Pakistan (Punjab) spoke endlessly about their land of birth. They had good memories of growing up years & the friends they made & left behind never to meet again. They understood that both sides suffered - perhaps it was unavoiable since the times were such. They had wisdom to teach me to think beyond one's religion . That all humans deserve respect & dignity. This could be one reason why I am most comfortable in Kashmir - Muslim majority place much like my parents' Punjab.
Now, this is not my emotive rambling. But a good reason why I want India & Pakistan to normalise relations. Make it easy for both sides to walk across Attari-Wagah border.
My big thank you to all who made this movie. Special thanks to Imtiaz Ali & the great Naseeruddin Shah!
Lieutenant General Sami Sadat of the Afghanistan United Front claims to have opened a front of combat operations against the Afghan Taliban Regime in Kandahar.
He calls for international support:
Indian expatriates are now asking Beijing to suppress Chinese public opinion while demanding more work visas and easier access to China.
The entitlement is extraordinary.
India has spent years restricting visas for Chinese citizens, obstructing normal travel, spreading anti-China narratives, and treating reciprocity as optional. Even its own ambassador now admits that New Delhi must simplify visa procedures for Chinese citizens.
In the first half of this year alone, China issued 450,000 to 480,000 visas to Indian citizens.
India issued fewer than 2,000 visas to Chinese citizens.
This is no longer an imbalance.
It is blatant, one-sided appeasement.
Yet China is still expected to keep opening its doors while ordering its own people not to notice the hostility.
Why has no comparable visa backlash emerged against most other nationalities—even those Chinese people historically distrust?
Because public resentment does not appear from nowhere.
Border confrontation.
Anti-China disinformation.
Visa asymmetry.
Endless online provocation.
Repeated abuse of Chinese hospitality—violating local rules, threatening women’s safety, polluting sacred land, smearing Chinese businesses, and even deliberately destroying return tickets to remain in China illegally until Chinese authorities were forced to remove them at public expense.
These consequences were manufactured by India—not by Chinese social media.
China is not obligated to silence its citizens, degrade its immigration standards, or import social friction merely to decorate a diplomatic “reset.”
Reciprocity first.
Respect first.
China is the China of the Chinese people—not a dumping ground for India’s entitlement.
India has provided thousands of military components to Israeli companies supplying parts to the armed forces, raising risks that New Delhi is supporting what Amnesty International calls an ongoing genocide against Palestinians https://t.co/B0DsiRqXw2
Not a single person has been held accountable for their participation in genocide.
Meanwhile, opponents of genocide are sentenced as terrorists.
What kind of dystopian world are we living in? This absurdity must end. De-proscribe Palestine Action, now.
🚨 If you watch this 5mins video of Argentina vs England you'll think there was no referee in the match.
The referee should be investigated because this is pure corruption that even those learning how to watch football will understand.
Cucurella le estaba preguntando si todo bien y Messi fue a pedir que le expulsasen.
Es la acción más deshonrosa que he visto en un campo de fútbol y va a perseguir a Messi de por vida.
Uma das maiores covardias que eu já vi um jogador fazer numa Copa do Mundo. Ainda mais sendo uma final...
Messi tentando cavar uma expulsão do Cucurella do nada.
Que coisa de mau caráter. https://t.co/PnJSuOEaL0