Shanze Rauf

PhD Student @PoliticsAtPenn | @NYUpolitics and @LifeAtLUMS alum

[Rithika Kumar @kumar_rithika]

Been thinking a lot about proxy leadership among female politicians in Bihar & Maharashtra with @priyadarshiamar & @ApurvaBamezai. Despite multiple news reports, there is limited info on how common proxy leadership actually is. We're digging into it in an upcoming working paper🧵

[Yale Identity & Conflict Lab @YaleICL]

🚨 Conference Alert!

The Identity and Conflict Lab at Yale University is organizing a conference on Identity & Conflict at Delphi, Greece on June 11-14, 2025.

Apply now at: https://t.co/GVtIpQ0Qb3

[Simon Chauchard @SimonChauchard]

🚨 Now forthcoming at the APSR:

We @KhariBiskut @NiloSiddiqui & myself explore a grim and topical question.

We show that misinformation drives support for vigilantism in India/Pakistan, but that correcting rumors *can* change these downstream effects of misinformation.

1/2

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

#OpenAccess from @PolAnalysis -

How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies - https://t.co/wunwFY3YC5

- @Apoorva__Lal, @lockhartm, @xuyiqing & @zu_gary

#FirstView

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Me every Sunday realising tomorrow is yet again Monday

[Martin Naunov @NotLipset]

Just in time for #InternationalWomensDay tomorrow, my first paper is now out in the @apsrjournal ! In it, I delve into the nuanced effects of protester gender on public reactions to protests and repression https://t.co/BqbSloY7JG🧵

[Shanze Rauf @ShanzeRauf]

@roya_talibova @Harvard @Kennedy_School Congratulations Roya!

[Sarah Thompson @sarah_fthompson]

🚨Revised WP alert!🚨 And could not be more timely given Pakistan's 🇵🇰 recent elections, where an internet blackout made the logistics of finding polling stations so salient. Why does women's turnout still lag behind men's? 1 possible answer: mobility.
🧵 w/ @natalya_rahman:

[Shanze Rauf @ShanzeRauf]

Amidst all the chaos in the last 24 hrs spectator index asking all the right questions🙃it’s all about perception- international and domestic

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

What comes to mind when you think of Pakistan?

[salman akram raja @salmanAraja]

By the grace of Allah PTI is leading at every polling station of NA 128 Lahore. Following a suspicious incident at the RO's office I have been illegally evicted from the premises. The process of compilation of results cannot proceed in my absence. I must be allowed back in.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

We must stand with the Pakistani people as their democracy is at serious risk. They should be able to elect their leaders without interference and tampering with the process, and the U.S. must ensure our tax dollars don't go to anyone undermining that.

[Shanze Rauf @ShanzeRauf]

Really helpful 🇵🇰 election dashboard

[Women's Action Forum - Lahore @WAFLahore]

WAF Lahore is dismayed at the verdict of Bushra Bibi #Iddat case. This verdict is an assault on women's autonomy over their bodies, dignity & privacy, setting dangerous precedent for state’s intrusion into the private lives of citizens.

[Aina J. Khan | عین جبین خان @ainajkhan]

I travelled to north-west Pakistan to profile the legendary Pashtun folk singer, Zarsanga, for @guardian. I often hear Pashto in the news from the mouths of the Taliban. For once, here's a beautiful, complicated representation of Pashtun culture.
https://t.co/18RW1GZWIs

[Aurat March - عورت مارچ @AuratMarchKHI]

The intimidation & harassment by the establishment in Islamabad hasnt stopped this incredible struggle led by Baloch Women. Thousands present in Quetta to protest enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings. Feminist salam & solidarity!
#MarchAgainstBalochGenocide

[Mateo Villamizar-Chaparro @sanmavicha]

Finally on print!! Here, my coauthors and I ask how deportees engage in civic and political rights when they are forced to return to their country of origin! While they’re disengaged politically; deportees tend to be more active helping others in their communities🇬🇹 @DukePoliSci

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

First meeting back after the holidays

[BYC - Kech Zone @BYCKech]

I am Mah Rang Baloch. Now, I am addressing all of you from Islamabad, Pakistan. I hope you are in any part of the world at this time, and if you are a humanitarian person, then you will listen to our voice, and you will raise your voice against the Baloch Genocide and help us.

Baloch genocide has been going on for decades in Balochistan, in which thousands of our elders, youth, children and women have forcibly disappeared, our people are being extra-judicially killed, and our people are being forcefully displaced from their hometowns. Military operations are being carried out in our areas, our resources are being looted, and this Genocide of our nation is intensifying day by day.

Against this severe Baloch genocide, we held a peaceful sit-in for 13 days in Turbat Balochistan, and after 13 days, we started a peaceful long march which started from Turbat and traveled hundreds of kilometers to Islamabad, has reached the capital of Pakistan . Today is the 32th day of our mass movement against the Baloch genocide, but in this whole mass movement, from the sit-in to the long march all over Balochistan, the State has used extreme force to stop and end the movement; false FIRs were registered against our people, our friends were subjected to physical violence, our friends were arrested, and when we were faced of all these violence and conspiracies and when we reached Islamabad then we were stopped from going to the Islamabad Press Club and after being stopped for three to four hours, the Islamabad police started torturing us. We were accompanied by small children, women, elderly and young people. All of them were subjected to severe torture; water cans and tear gas were used on us during the night in extreme cold, injuring many of our innocent children, women, elderly and youth. And after we were all arrested, there were about 80 women and children, and more than 200 were our youth. After releasing the women and children last night, an attempt was made to evict them from Islamabad forcefully, but we resisted for 7 to 8 hours, and then we were released. Still, more than 100 of our friends are in the custody of Islamabad police and are not being produced in court, while 14 of our friends have forcibly disappeared, and we are not being given any information about them, nor are we getting any information about them.

We need help from the whole world right now. You, as a human being, can stop the genocide of a nation by helping us; if you want another holocaust not to happen, then you have to stop the genocide of the Baloch nation by helping us.
You can help us in this way.
1- You can write a letter to the UN working group about our genocide.
2- You can inform the human rights institutions of your country or any other country in the world about the Baloch genocide.
3. You can raise your voice for us in your country's parliament.
4. You can inform the journalists and media houses of your country about us.
5. As a journalist, you can inform the world about the Baloch Genocide.
6. If you are a researcher, you can research our mass movement and our genocide.
7. You can protest for us in your city.
8. You can hold political debates all over the world on the Baloch Genocide.
9- You can file an online petition for us.
10- You can campaign for us on social media.

We hope you can understand our pain and fulfill your humanitarian duty by helping us.

#MarchAgainstBalochGenocide
#ReleaseBalochProtestors