@Huk06 Also, a few years back Murree Brewry was bashed by a campaign saying all its products are alcoholic. Bad for the company, but the good old times.
I’ve never been more hopeful and in love with my people. Listen kids, let them do what they do best : propagate fear and pessimism. We will outlive them all. Next 4 decades are ours. We’ll rise and pull the ground with us. We’ll give this country everything it ever deserved.
Remember, how Qatar banned alcohol in Fifa World Cup? But oh dear, PCB is on a mission to take Pakistan out from upcoming economical crisis by taking all those foreign subsidiaries onboard.
I get a lot of messages from well wishers here to tone it down/remain neutral, otherwise it is not good for 'career'.
Firstly, I don't know why is there even this silly expectation out of academics or those with public voice to remain neutral in the face of oppression and violence when neutrality is the most political of all the positions.
I spent 10 years doing BA, MPhil and PhD in Political Science, and another 10 years deep in the policy space, not to publish about present horrors as journal articles 25 years from now but to be able to recognise the patterns of oppression today and call them out. I owe it to my profession and to the people.
As for the 'career'; if my ability to speak truth to power is bad for my career, I really don't have a career worth saving.
To be able to pick a side in times like these is probably the greatest thing one could do both, personally and professionally.
When the dust settles down we will recognise the true extent of how much these elections have changed Pakistani politics and power structure.
5 obvious ones that stand out:
1. There is a new establishment in town: the people!
2. There is no appetite for Nawaz Sharif & Bhutto’s brand of politics
3. The future of politics is technology
4. Army is no more welcome in politics
5. That debate between democracy vs benevolent dictator is done with. People have finally recognised why democracy is needed.
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the abnormal number shift from last night to this morning.
Thanks to the nation for standing up and using the right to vote.
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Remember how last time Imran Khan was the only one saying the election were rigged and we need to check what happened.
This time, our votes helped us clear it all for everyone.
The stupid mistakes from ECP, the sioent treatment of PMLN when ECP stopped showing the results,+
@BDUTT@sunandavashisht@sushantsareen Whatever happened before the election was also hard to explain and illogical. But they got away with it. We are expecting any and everything from them.
After whole day of working from volunteers to people, MQM goons came to our polling station in the evening to start casting votes on the remaining books. Then they had a fight w PPP people & at the end, MQM won by taking all the empty books with them to stamp their party votes.
It's all about love for your country, for the people of your country. It's all about hope and responsibility. Not everyone has it in their heart. No need to fight with hopeless hearts.
Bs apna mulk jinda raye, mulk k pyary jindy rayen 🇵🇰
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