Romesa Razzaq

Interested in Politics, Law and Justice and Cricket. RTs are not endorsements.

[Romesa Razzaq @romesarazzaq]

PLEASE RT AND SHARE, and read the whole thread!

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[Vi-lly @Villymeta]

This argument rests on a set of assumptions that don’t hold up under historical or economic scrutiny.

First, colonialism wasn’t just “resource extraction”, it was the deliberate restructuring of societies to serve imperial markets, not local development. Colonized economies were engineered to export raw materials and import finished goods, destroying indigenous industry, food sovereignty, and institutional continuity. That structural dependency didn’t disappear when flags changed.

Second, the idea that formerly colonized countries were “handed fully functioning systems” is historically inaccurate. The infrastructure left behind in much of Africa and Latin America was narrow, extractive, and externally oriented, railways ran from mines to ports, not between cities; farms produced cash crops, not food security; administrative systems excluded the vast majority of the population from education and power. Those are not foundations for stable nation-states.

Third, pointing to Venezuela as proof that “resources don’t matter” confuses governance failures with historical context. Venezuela’s crisis is real, but it exists within a century of foreign intervention, oil dependency encouraged by global markets, sanctions, and boom-bust cycles tied to commodity extraction, again, a legacy of externally shaped development models.

Fourth, comparing Africa to Hong Kong or Singapore is a false equivalence. Those were small, strategically vital port cities, not vast, ethnically diverse regions carved into artificial borders with no regard for social cohesion. They also benefited from sustained investment, Cold War geopolitics, and continued integration into global finance on favorable terms. Africa did not.

Fifth, the claim that Europeans “tried to train locals but couldn’t find talent” ignores the reality that colonial systems actively restricted education, leadership pathways, and political participation. You can’t simultaneously suppress a population for centuries and then cite the absence of trained administrators as evidence of inherent incapacity.

Finally, no serious scholar argues that colonialism alone explains all modern poverty. Internal governance matters. Corruption matters. Policy choices matter. But pretending history ends at independence, and that countries start from a neutral baseline the moment colonizers leave, is not realism. It’s amnesia.

Acknowledging structural causes is not excusing failure. It’s recognizing that outcomes are shaped by starting conditions, incentives, and constraints, the same logic applied everywhere else in economics and history.

If the developing world were simply “incapable,” there wouldn’t be countless examples of post-colonial success once structural constraints were eased. The evidence points not to cultural incompetence, but to systems designed for extraction, not prosperity.

[Alifya Sohail @AlifyaSohail]

For a judge to imply that a live-in relationship gives a man the license to behead a woman is revolting. To inflict that logic on Noor Mukadam’s family, four years after her murder, and on every woman in this country, is even worse.

https://t.co/L7qD9PsCDW

[Amna Baig @amnaappi]

Noor was not in a live-in relationship. She was held hostage by Zahir for two days before she was murdered by him.

A few months later, in the same city, Sara Inam, who was living in with her husband Shahnawaz, was murdered by him.

Justice, not sermons.

[Osman Khalid Butt 🇵🇸 @aClockworkObi]

This list is weak. Allow me to expand:

- won’t whisper 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢’𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘐’𝘮 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 every time you breathe.
- doesn’t fry an egg without a haya ka tarrka.
- thinks a man can, God forbid, operate a washing machine.
- had the audacity to say she was not your servant one hot July summer.
- doesn’t fold your emotional baggage & oedipus complex neatly.
- refuses to laugh hysterically at your mummy’s WhatsApp forwards.
- doesn’t greet your extended family like she’s applying for a visa.
- once said ‘khud kar lo mai thaki hui hoon’ without an ounce of haya.
- doesn’t wake up at fajar to apologize for feminism.
- once, in 2016, forgot to smile at your balding phuppa.
- refuses to exorcise the jinn that hides your car keys.
- lets her contour deviate from sharia-compliant geometry.
- doesn’t spontaneously transform into a Kababjees whenever guests come unannounced.
- fails the saalan consistency test.
- can’t make roti that heals your generational trauma.
- hasn’t yet dissolved her personality in the lassi she made for you.
- doesn’t serve said lassi like she’s auditioning for a drama serial.
- once referred to herself as a human being.
- refuses to hand-wash your fragile masculinity in washing powder nirma.
- once said ‘therapy’ instead of ‘dua’.
- once voiced an opinion during PSL season.
- won’t press your shalwar kamiz with the weight of patriarchal tradition.
- commits spiritual treason by calling your mother ‘aunty’ instead of ‘ammi jaaaan’.
- won’t align the TV remote with the qibla after use.
- hasn’t watched an oppressive Pakistani drama for moral calibration.
- can’t produce electricity through sheer guilt when the generator dies.

[عبداللہ @Blahhhhhh34]

I need your help with a request.
My friend’s sister, Amina, was killed by her in-laws over a house dispute.
She was married to her relatives in Bhattike, Wazirabad. Her blind father is now left alone to deal with this cruel, corrupt system, and no one is there to listen to him.

Please retweet this, tag the relevant authorities, and help us

[Faisal Sultan @fslsltn]

Cervical cancer is diagnosed in over 5000 Pakistani women annually. The HPV vaccine, now offered as part of Pakistan’s vaccination program aims to protect from this deadly cancer. Over 150 countries (including Islamic countries), use this safe and effective vaccine.

[Del @TheCartelDel]

Once they hook this up to ChatGPT we're going to see levels of misogyny to real women that we've never seen before

[Shani @FearlessWolfess]

She's Summiyah Butt who was murdered by her in-laws.
She lived in Township, Lahore. A calm, friendly and sweet girl, and a loving mother of two.

A marriage proposal was being discussed for her brother-in-law (Devar). But the girl’s family somehow found out that he was already married and had two children. They asked Summiyah about it.

She didn’t know it was meant to be kept a secret, so she confirmed the truth. Her in-laws, who were trying to hide this, got real mad. Summiyah was bепten up and sent back to her, mother’s house. But she went back to her husband for her children.

On the third night of Eid, around 1 AM, her brother received a call: **“Tumhari behan ne khudkushi kar li hai. Aakar laash le jao.”** When he arrived, her body was hanging from a fan. No one helped him take her down. Her husband and in laws were stood around with cold, blank faces as if they were just bothered by the situation. He immediately took her body home. The post-mortem report showed clear signs of *tor*ure and the cause of death was **strangulation** not from the su!c!de. All of her in-laws fled, taking her two children with them. No one knows where they are.

And please, protect your daughters, sisters, and friends from monsters like these. Summiyah deserves justice.

@OfficialDPRPP
@Lahorepoliceops
@MaryamNSharif

#JusticeForSummiyahButt

[Meena Gabeena @gabeeno]

Smoking is a health issue not a gender issue or a crime. R@pe however is a crime and so is child marriage now. Potential rapists and child abusers are suffering and hence posting photos of woman senator smoking a cigarette thinking it might decriminalise child abuse!! ☺️ #SufferMore

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

-Iran was *responding* to Israel’s attack on its embassy, this framing makes it seem like Iran initiated an attack

-If Biden wanted to avoid a crisis he could have supported a ceasefire, instead he gave Israel no red line, aided atrocities in Gaza and shattered international law

[Monisha Rajesh @monisha_rajesh]

There’s nothing to say any more. We live in a racist world where 40,000 brown people can be slaughtered and no one stops it. But one raging bullying nation can bomb multiple countries then cry at retaliation and the white supremacy of the West kicks into action overnight.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

the Western media and political class right now:

[Monique M @MonroweM]

I don’t ever want to hear anyone say that the US & UK couldn’t intervene on the genocide in Palestine again.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

THEY STARVED THESE CHILDREN

NOT IRAN

NOT GERMANY 1943

GAZA 2024

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

Western media.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

SHE WAS 6 MONTHS OLD

[vivafalastin 🇵🇸 @vivafalastin]

409. from a hospital.