Ahmad Shahid

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

The clumsy attempts to censor Imran Khan's name & the interview of his children is further proof of the incompetence and cruelty of those at the helm. A country of 250 million people is being turned into a global laughing stock at the whims of a few insecure men. Shameful!

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

Martial law regime has chosen to create a bloodbath in Kashmir when security situation is already out of control in Balochistan & KPK. Economic indicators are also abysmal with poverty levels hitting 40%. We are witnessing the worst mix of cruelty & incompetence in our history.

[Bayyinah Institute @bayyinahinst]

Most of us mean to grow closer to the Quran “once life calms down.” It rarely does.

[Bayyinah Institute @bayyinahinst]

Before facing Fir’awn, Musa (AS) didn’t ask for the task to be removed. He asked to be made capable of it: “My Lord, expand for me my chest and make my task easy for me.” (20:25-26) Not “make the mountain disappear,” but “give me a chest wide enough to carry it.”

Often that’s what we need too: not fewer difficulties, but the capacity and calm to meet them. Whatever you’re walking into, ask Allah for the same. May He open our hearts and ease our affairs. Ameen.

[Sammi Deen Baloch @SammiBaluch]

Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari: I demand your immediate explanation. Just now, law enforcement personnel and intelligence officials raided my family home without my knowledge or presence. If this has been carried out under your government, you owe the public an explanation. If it has not, then you have a responsibility to explain who is operating with such impunity in Sindh.

This follows repeated visits to our home over the past week, amounting to a sustained pattern of intimidation and harassment directed at me and my family.

My family home has been empty for the past two days. During that time, police and intelligence personnel have repeatedly come to the property, arriving in approximately fifteen vehicles and harassing my neighbours.

I am placing on public record my grave concern over this unlawful intrusion. Any unauthorized entry into my home raises serious fears about my family’s safety, the integrity of our property, and the possibility that evidence could be planted, surveillance devices installed, or my residence otherwise compromised in an attempt to fabricate allegations against me or malign my name. Given the continued harassment of human rights defenders, these are not abstract fears.

I demand immediate answers. Which agency entered my family’s home? Under whose authority was this operation carried out? Was there any warrant authorizing this raid? If so, it must be produced without delay. If there are any allegations against me, the law provides clear legal procedures. Secretive raids, repeated visits, and unlawful intrusions into my family’s residence are not among them.

My family’s home is not a crime scene. It is not a place where state institutions can enter at will, intimidate our neighbours, or conduct unexplained operations without accountability.

I am also placing this on record: if anything is removed from my family’s home, if anything is later claimed to have been recovered from it, or if any case is built against me on the basis of evidence allegedly found there following today’s illegal intrusion, I will hold the authorities fully responsible. I likewise hold them responsible for my family’s safety, for any damage to our property, and for anything that may subsequently happen to our home as a consequence of today’s unlawful entry.

[Mubashir Zaidi @xadeejourno]

INJUSTICE.....Balochistan Bar Council condemns life prison sentence to Mahrang Baloch and Sibghatullah declaring it illegal #MahrangBaloch

[Mohsin Dawar @mjdawar]

The life sentences given to @MahrangBaloch_ & other BYC leaders after a faceless, sham trial in an ATC court are a grave injustice & an attack on peaceful political struggle. Attempts to silence dissent through repression will not resolve grievances,nor will they silence dissent.

[Umar Saif @umarsaif]

Pakistan did not build an innovation economy.

It built an industry around pretending to build one.

We needed software engineers to grow IT exports.

Instead, hundreds of third-rate universities popped up to sell worthless degrees.

We needed startups to transform the economy.

Instead, everyone who could pronounce “startup” became a trainer, coach, mentor, incubator manager, or investor, selling advice to founders without having built anything meaningful themselves.

The result?

No serious growth in IT exports.
No breakout startups.

But the private colleges made money.
The trainers made money.
The coaches made money.
The incubators made money.

Pakistan’s tragedy is not just that we failed to build the future.

It is that too many people made a business out of pretending we were.

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

The treatment being meted out to former PM Imran Khan is inhumane and unethical. He is being denied his basic right to see his medical team. Imposing such suffering on the most popular politician in the country is an act of humiliation directed at 250 million Pakistanis.

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

Pakistan has socialism for the rich where the poor are deprived of basic necessities to compensate the ruling classes. The Rs. 120 per litre levy is imposed on the public to facilitate this tiny, parasitic elite feasting upon the nation's wealth. Disgusting and unsustainable.

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

Another cruel hike in petrol prices. Please remember that the govt gives at least Rs. 2700 billion annually in subsidies to banks, feudals, military corporations, IPPs, and real estate elites. Ordinary people are being forced to sacrifice their families for luxuries of elites.

[Bayyinah Institute @bayyinahinst]

The Prophet ﷺ said there are no days in which good deeds are more beloved to Allah than these ten. Most of us only remember them halfway through. Not this year.

[Bayyinah Institute @bayyinahinst]

The Quran calls itself "that book," using a word for something far away. You are holding it in your hands. So why the distance?

[Ayesha A.Qayyum 🇵🇰🇵🇸🍁 @AyeshaA_Q]

To civil society, journalists, and state officials:

I am writing as a grieving wife, seeking the immediate and lawful release of my husband, Muhammad Saad.

At approximately 3:30 AM this Monday, 12–13 masked men with guns forcibly entered our home and took him away without presenting any warrant or lawful authority. This was an unlawful deprivation of liberty and a direct violation of due process.

Only after legal pressure did personnel within CTD register an FIR on laughable grounds. This post facto action raises serious concerns of mala fide intent and abuse of process, where the law is invoked after the fact to justify an illegal act.

Saad is a journalist, researcher, and Political Science scholar. His work engages with complex subjects, including Balochistan, Kashmir, and international affairs. He has interviewed recognised public figures such as Former Prime Minister Anwar ul Haq Kakar, as well as senior journalists Sohail Warraich and Hamid Mir, and has introduced major international voices to Pakistan’s media space.

More importantly, Saad has worked with state institutions when called upon, contributing to areas aligned with the national interest. He was vetted, cleared, and entrusted by the State. Today, that same individual is being subjected to coercive action by its functionaries.

This contradiction is not incidental but structural.

If individuals who have been vetted and trusted by the state can be subjected to arbitrary detention and retrospective criminalisation, then the question is unavoidable: on what basis does the state expect trust from its citizens?

The actions of certain personnel within CTD constitute a clear overreach of authority. Powers granted for public safety cannot be exercised in violation of constitutional safeguards, including the inviolability of the home and the right to due process. The law does not permit enforced taking into custody followed by procedural reconstruction.

Saad has never engaged with any proscribed material nor been involved in any unlawful activity. His life and work have remained within the bounds of law and intellectual inquiry.

I call upon civil society, the media, and responsible state authorities to take immediate cognisance of this case. Ensure due process. Examine the legality of the initial detention. Hold those responsible accountable. And ensure his safe and immediate release.

This is not just about one individual. It is about law and dignity. It is about giving hope to others who have worked for the state and Pakistan whenever called upon, who have trusted the state against all odds. This youth must be protected and safeguarded within a shrinking demographic that believe in state and that is increasingly disillusioned and disenfranchised.

#ReleaseSaad #RuleofLaw

[M. Jibran Nasir 🇵🇸 @MJibranNasir]

After abducting @hafizsaadriaz, State alleges he is a member of Al Qaeda carrying a "membership card" & recruiting people. I've known Saad for more than 8 yrs & can confidently say the State is lying. His only crime is dissent which for a weak judiciary is a non bailable offence.

[Ali Aftab Saeed @aliaftabsaeed]

Free Saad Riaz
#ReleaseSaad

[Eon Podcast @EonHoldings]

We Condemn the Arrest & Abduction of our Member Saad!

#eon #justiceforsaad #cda

[Husnain Bin Sajjad @husnayn_]

If an individual like @hafizsaadriaz, who as a researcher has been carefully moderate, balanced and wholly academic regarding his views and criticisms of the state and its policies can abducted through farfetched and baseless war on terror like accusations, there's not much room left at all here for any serious dialogue.

You argue against the state narrative, you're down, you argue for the state narrative, you're downing is just delayed till the next regime revamps the state ideology and targets the sympathisers of the previous narrative, almost as if apolitical-ness is the only sane & pragmatic position being curated for the researchers, academics and journalists of the political.

Playing the game as an observer or a participant is just agreeing to being a criminal, either today, or later, unless you're spineless.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Images from a plane carrying Iran’s delegation to US-Iran talks in Islamabad show seats filled with photos and belongings of victims of the Minab school strike.

The aircraft, “Minab 168,” honours the 168 killed, mostly children.

[M. Jibran Nasir 🇵🇸 @MJibranNasir]

While we as ordinary Muslims and citizens may not be able to physically stop the US and Israeli war machine we can at least shame and shun the snakes parading around as scholars trying to sow hatred between Shias and Sunnis specifically at this time.