Segmentata

Re-Tweets and likes are not necessarily endorsements. Post at your own risk on my TL, threads, RT and replies. #UnitedWeWin

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@DThucydides

[Sadaf Baloch @sadafzbaloch]

She had an MSc in Zoology, an MPhil in Education, a government teaching job, and a dentist husband who taught at a medical college.

Her father was a senior government officer (Grade 21, director and registrar at University of Turbat). Her family was educated and comfortable.

None of them were missing.

Then Shari Baloch joined BLA’s Majeed Brigade and became Pakistan’s first female suicide bomber.

On 26 April 2022, she waited outside the Confucius Institute at Karachi University, dressed in a burqa.

When the van carrying Chinese teachers approached, she detonated.

Three Chinese educators (who had come to teach) and their Pakistani driver were killed.

She left behind an 8-year-old daughter (Mahrosh) and a 4-year-old son (Meer Hassan).

This was not a story of poverty or personal revenge.

During her university years she was drawn into Baloch nationalist circles that gradually turned radical. Social media, campus narratives, and ideological echo chambers pulled an educated, sensitive woman away from reality into a rigid, violent worldview.

A mother chose ideology over her children.

The Chinese teachers she killed also had families waiting for them. The attack did not free anyone; it orphaned innocents on both sides and damaged the very idea of education and hospitality.

Privilege and degrees do not automatically protect against radicalization.

When universities and online spaces allow extremist narratives to go unchallenged, even people who have everything can still choose destruction.

Shari Baloch’s case is a reminder that the real battleground is ideas not just economics.

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@AnalyticaCamil1 Asian MENA pretty much also thought invasion would happen.

Euros all thought “war in Europe impossible”

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@NKMalazai And Coffee shop will be where? Mudbrick?

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@IftikharFirdous LUCAS is the American Shahed

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@SaadInCyber oh he did.

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@sanaasurat @SebastienneL @FarmGirlCarrie No he wasn't married. He got married decades later to a much younger woman, https://t.co/qcbnDTOxJb

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@SebastienneL @FarmGirlCarrie Not then

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@GS_VCactivist @FarmGirlCarrie His mother was dead set.against the match

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@Alicia_Smith19 @ajlamesa It had scaffolding when I visited 10 and 20 years ago.

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@NKMalazai Its obviously personal view. In pashto and was recorded days ago.
Trial ballon would be in Urdu and prime time.

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@dmbkparker @BraveNewBooks This is a guy in his fifties.

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@Davidlit3 And you think Pakistan won’t pay back in kind?

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@DThucydides When you sideline politicians and bring fossils like this.

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@realrxAFC @ShriCivilian No, you made an assertion. And got push back.

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@AsharJawad Lol.

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@NobleQAli Basically this.

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@fish_birb @NobleQAli Japan said they thought France had too many blacks and muslims.

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@jk_8080 @Bbdash09 “Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”--Douglas Adams A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@SaadInCyber I disagree here. In WW1, Germany surrendered while it was still holding enemy territory.
Economic pressure, the blockage will eventually tell. Iran needs a settlement eventually.

[Segmentata @segmentata]

@HannibalBarx @SaadInCyber I don’t think anyone is disagreeing that they took a series of L starting post Oct 7 going into 2026, (though they did get a few hard hits in during 12 day war).

That said, the first phase of fighting in this war, strategically they hold the advantage