Sameen

Associate Prof. Research bureaucratic politics, political elites, & governance in Pakistan. Views my own.

[Usama Khilji @UsamaKhilji]

Update from #ReleaseImaanAndHadi legal team: Today, we, on behalf of Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha, have filed an application to place certain additional documents on the record in relation to the delay in complying with the directions dated: 12.05.2026

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Research for new Ebola vaccines will be fast-tracked as experts warn the disease is moving faster than the response.

Here’s what we know https://t.co/EphhO5KDgk

[Reuters @Reuters]

Flesh-eating screwworm confirmed in Texas calf as parasite crosses border from Mexico https://t.co/AmTp450uJo https://t.co/AmTp450uJo

[Zia Ur Rehman @zalmayzia]

The brutal killing of four immigrant workers (Pakistanis, Afghans) who were burned alive in a vehicle has Italian officials struggling to confront rampant labor exploitation by criminal gangs that have infiltrated Italy’s agricultural industry. https://t.co/DYnkcuozVp

[Alifya Sohail @AlifyaSohail]

BREAKING: The Islamabad High Court has de-listed Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha’s suspension of sentence appeals that were going to be heard on 4 June. No new date has been set. Today the couple completes 130 days in Adiala Jail for tweeting; how utterly shameful.

[Hasnaat Malik @HasnaatMalik]

Big relief to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Supreme Judicial Council led by CJP Yahya Afridi has rejected PTI's complaint of misconduct against Chief Election Commissioner & other members of ECP.

PTI had sought a thorough inquiry by accusing Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sultan Sikandar Raja and members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) of becoming incapable of performing their constitutional duties and thus guilty of misconduct.

The complaint was jointly filed by the PTI and its secretary general Omar Ayub Khan, highlighting that the constitutional obligation dem­ands the ECP to act independently without taking sides in favour of or against any political party.

[Fatima Tassadiq @fatimatassadiq]

I am so thrilled that the GlobalCORRIDOR website is up! I have been working on this project since 2022.

The Atlas documents dozens of transnational infrastructure corridors across the world. Check out the website for our research articles, reports, podcasts & documentaries.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Iran's IRGC says it targeted 'US-owned' commercial vessel with cruise missile

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/vgpoIwZDBK

[Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindib_]

‘A Volatile Picture’ month at last!
The book is shipping out in the US via @UWAPress (summer sale on now! ) / UK distributor @LivUniPress. Out in the world on the 16th of June https://t.co/lEhCVqDvGm | https://t.co/Oj81FgrcRH

[FLACSO México @FlacsoMx]

La FLACSO México lamenta el sensible fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega entrañable profesor-investigador, colega, amigo y miembro muy querido de nuestra comunidad académica.

Expresamos nuestras más sentidas condolencias a sus familiares, amistades, colegas, estudiantado y a las comunidades académicas de las que formó parte.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Iran's negotiating team has stopped exchanging messages with the United States through mediators because of attacks on Lebanon, according to Iranian media.

🔴 More on https://t.co/hGzrK2N8WC

[Alifya Sohail @AlifyaSohail]

Excerpt from Mohammed Hanif’s letter to Junaid Hafeez:

‘Those who made blasphemy the central plank of their politics, and threatened generals and judges and politicians, have been silenced for now. We sometimes fear that your acquittal might poke those monsters we have put to sleep. Or people who decide such things still suspect that these monsters might be unshackled to liven up our political circus.’
https://t.co/kyPln5E3As

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

Wow. @derspiegel has made millions of Nazi party membership cards searchable so Germans can look up their ancestors and get a glimpse of what they were doing under Hitler

[Usama Khilji @UsamaKhilji]

#ReleaseImaanAndHadi
#TweetingIsNotACrime
#RepealPECA

[Nicholas Dawes @NicDawes]

Anyone who has travelled on a weak passport will celebrate investigative reporting into VFS global, the near monopoly intermediary that handles visa applications for 71 countries. https://t.co/ALB7KQM9e3

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

Eastern #DRC now faces a catastrophic collision of disease and conflict with the #Ebola outbreak in Ituri province outpacing the response.

The Ebola Bundibugyo virus has no approved vaccine nor treatment. Stopping this Ebola transmission depends entirely on humanitarian access. Yet ongoing clashes are driving mass displacement, pushing exposed contacts into overcrowded camps and severing critical containment corridors. Frontline workers are risking everything, while attacks on health facilities make tracking cases and their contacts nearly impossible.

We cannot build community trust or isolate the sick while bombs are falling.

We urge all warring parties to agree to an immediate ceasefire to contain this outbreak. To allow us safe and sustained access for medical teams.

We plea to prioritise human survival above everything else.

[Ministerio de Sanidad @sanidadgob]

Confirmado un nuevo caso positivo de hantavirus tras PCR en una de las personas que permanecen en cuarentena preventiva en el Hospital Gómez Ulla.

Corresponde a un contacto estrecho identificado dentro del seguimiento epidemiológico activado tras la detección inicial del brote.

[Reuters @Reuters]

WHO chief says fast-moving Ebola epidemic is outpacing response efforts https://t.co/xtguRaktR1 https://t.co/xtguRaktR1

[Tim Howles @AimeTim]

What is the contribution of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) to the global sustainability agenda?
A knowledge-exchange seminar.
Friday 29 May, 15.00 BST

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

Please read this #Ebola thread. @JeremyKonyndyk knows of what he speaks.
This outbreak is going to be a beast to contain. And the longer it goes before the world mounts an effective response, the harder it's going to be to contain it.