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[Asad Ali Shah @Asad_Ashah]

This headline tells you whose daughter she is. It tells you nothing about the Professor.

Prof. Dr. Nighat Shah should be judged on merit, qualifications, performance and JSMU/JPMC’s institutional need — not her parentage.

She is FRCOG, FCPS, MRCOG, MCPS and MHPE, and returned to the public sector after around 15 years at AKUH to build and lead JPMC’s Gynae & Obstetrics Unit 9B.

Look at what has been built in barely three years:

• A previously vacant gynae unit developed into a major teaching and clinical department, with postgraduate and subspecialty training and international research collaboration.

• 39 postgraduate doctors currently being supervised, together with their research.

• Public-sector infertility and assisted-reproduction services, alongside new menopause, adolescent-health and early-assessment clinics.

• A major expansion of family-planning work in tertiary hospitals through training, service development and collaboration, including Autaq, a dedicated male family-planning initiative.

• Leadership in tackling maternal mortality, including collaboration with NICVD/SICVD so that pregnant women with serious cardiac disease can receive specialised multidisciplinary care.

• Advocacy that helped address the absence of neonatal intensive-care capacity for critically ill newborns.

And all this has been achieved in three years, with limited resources.

Pakistan already has a severe shortage of highly qualified senior medical academics. Universities routinely retain exceptional professionals after retirement where their expertise, teaching and supervision remain necessary. JSMU and other public medical universities have done so in other cases as well. PMDC has specifically enabled contractual engagement of retired medical faculty up to age 65, subject to institutional need and protection of junior faculty progression.

So, yes, scrutinise the appointment. Ensure due process. Ensure that no deserving junior faculty member is unfairly blocked.

But retaining scarce expertise is not nepotism merely because the professional happens to have a well-known father.

A family name should neither qualify nor disqualify anyone.

Judge the Professor on her record, and more importantly, the need of the Institution.

Respect professionals. Respect merit.

[MAT @MAliTabba]

For the upcoming auto policy, we need a pragmatic approach. We must avoid sales tax/FED Cross-subsidization between technologies (ICE, PHEV, EV, REEV) which distorts the market & breeds uncompetitiveness just as it did in the gas and power sector. Growth requires a level playing field, not artificial advantages for certain technology.

@Team_Musadik
@FBRSpokesperson
@Financegovpk
@Pak_MoIP
@SaleemMandvi

[TIG @tigaba12]

@AirlinePilotmax If the aircraft couldn't land back at ISB due to weight restriction, can't it fly to its destination with landing gear down?

[Naveed Iftikhar @navift]

The IT industry in Pakistan is worried about why freelancers are getting higher take-homes than their employees.

It reminds me of old folklore. A a person was crying at night and praying to God: "Everyone is sleeping, and only I am awake worshipping you."

Someone sleeping near him woke up and said, "Bhai, ask God for what you need. Don't smear (badmouth about) us just to get something for yourself."

[Miftah Ismail @MiftahIsmail]

Nadeem bhai I challenge you or any of the well-off people here who think our poor people are lazy and live a luxurious life to spend one night without air conditioning. Just one night.
Those of our poor brothers and sisters, who are exactly like us, except that they are poor, live very hard lives where food is a luxury and health care unaffordable.

When poor people go back to villages they help their families with harvesting or sowing, they help rebuild the walls and roofs that caved in during the previous rains, they work butchering animals during Barka Eid, and yes they also spend time with their spouses, kids and parents. Is that so bad? Don’t we all do that?

[Ammar Khan @rogueonomist]

- Open a VPS account. Keep allocation at 100% equity, and grow wealth tax free. Get tax credit on salary. Contribute every month
- Avoid direct investment in PSX, unless ETFs. You will not be able to handle volatility, and information asymmetry
- Keep a Savings Account -- if a bank says it cannot be done, push harder
- Keep surplus cash in a Money market fund
- Do not buy a plot. High chance you will lose it all
- Do not invest in apartment project. High chance it will be stranded, and you will lose it all
- Target buying an average of 1 gram of physical gold every month (you can buy every quarter or whatever) -- regardless of price. Do not buy silver, or copper, etc. - unless you manufacture fans for a living
- Max out any available government housing scheme loans; this is the only property you should buy
- Keep renting; this is the most economically efficient decision
- Do not buy anything offered by bancassurance or that says life insurance savings plan. Run for the exit. Block their numbers.
- Do not invest with family.

[Sohaib Athar @ReallyVirtual]

Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).

[Alif @vanillasky458]

Shehbaz Sharif’s aura:

[TIG @tigaba12]

@alisalmanalvi This is fake.. Read the wording and check table below

[Zubair Ahmed Khan @ZubairKhanPK]

The Central Contract allow players to Praise CM or PM but dont allow them to Criticise them?

This isnt politics? Hypocrites!

Following the footsteps of his Father In Law!

[Talha Ahmad @talhaahmad967]

This may be one of the most misinformed takes circulating online right now. In any ceasefire or de-escalation agreement, especially one involving multiple stakeholders, there is a well established diplomatic process to ensure absolute clarity and prevent misinterpretation.

Typically, a Joint Statement (if issued) is carefully negotiated, worded, and mutually approved by all participating parties, along with the agreed-upon statements of each country, tailored to its domestic audience while remaining consistent with the agreed framework.

This title 'Draft: Pakistan's PM message on X," shows coordinated communications. Three separate drafts were prepared: one for the United States, one for Iran and one for Pakistan within the bounds of diplomatic protocol. Once approved by all relevant parties, it was posted.

Suggesting otherwise ignores how international diplomacy actually functions and only creates unnecessary confusion about a non-issue.

Anyone more concerned about spelling or edits than about the lives of thousands which have been saved and the death and destruction that would be stopped, even if temporarily, is a non-serious person

[Scott Ritter @RealScottRitter]

How much time did you give the children of Gaza?

The children of Beirut?

How much time did you give Khamenei’s 14-month old granddaughter when you murdered her?

You started this war when you launched your cowardly surprise attack.

And now you cry like a little bitch because Iran is getting its retribution.

No one cares.

You kicked the hornets nest.

Enjoy the stings.

[Azhar Khan Aasifzai @AasifzaiAzhar]

ن لیگ کے حذیفہ رحمان نے تیمور جھگڑا کو چیلنج کیا ایک عمران خان کا ٹویٹ نیتن یاہو کے خلاف دکھا دو تیمور جھگڑا نے دو سیکنڈ کے اندر نکال کر دکھا دیا پھر انہوں نے کہا کہ آپ ایک ٹویٹ اب نواز شریف یا شہباز شریف کا نیتن یاہو کے خلاف دکھا دو
پھر حذیفہ رحمان کیساتھ نواز شریف والی ہو گئی

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

Why are they called settlers instead of terrorists?

[Dr Tariq Tramboo @tariqtramboo]

Yes, because sharia has a death penalty for Paedophiles.

[Ameer Abbas @ameerabbas84]

جو دھمکی یہ وزیر قانون لگا رہا ہے یہ تو مشرف جیسے آمر نے بھی نہیں دی تھی، یہ وزیر قانون اور سینئر قانون دان ہوتے ہوئے کہہ رہے ہیں کہ کسی پاکستانی کو پاکستان کے بیرونی تعلقات پر بات کرنے کا حق نہیں اور آئین اس کی اجازت نہیں دیتا۔ اس ہائبرڈ نظام سے تو معصوموں کا خون بہانے والے امریکہ میں کئی گنا زیادہ آزادی ہے جہاں میڈیا، سیاستدان اور عوام ٹرمپ کے خارجہ تعلقات کے بخئیے اُدھیڑ رہے ہیں، ٹرمپ کو ایرانیوں کا قاتل کہہ رہے ہیں، CNN سے لے کر نیویارک ٹائمز تک ٹرمپ کو سکول پر حملے کا ذمہ دار ٹھہرا رہے ہیں اور ٹرمپ کی خارجہ پالیسی کی سرعام مخالفت کر رہے ہیں۔

[AkbaR @Aakbar84]

یہ دو تصویریں دیکھ کر اندازہ کرسکتے ہیں کہ ہم کس قدر پستی میں گر چکے ہیں اور اسٹبلشمنٹ نے ملک کو کیسے اسرائیل اور امریکہ کی غلامی میں دے دیا ہے

یہ ریاست طیبہ ہے جہاں قومی ہیرو کو سینسر کیا جاتا ہے اور دنیا کے سب سے بڑے دہشتگرد کی دلالی کی جاتی ہے

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

[Rana Shazib @RanaShazibKhan]

Imad’s Ex wife has all the rights to criticise both Imad and Nyla, she’s in pain, her home is broken because of them both, Nyla dated Imad when he was married and his wife was pregnant with their 3rd kid. Sannia did everything to save her marriage, stayed with him even after knowing her husband’s affairs with different women throughout her marriage, looked after his kids when Imad was playing cricket, still gave birth to his kid while her husband was cheating on her. And you’re still judging her for criticising the women who broke her family ?

[TIG @tigaba12]

@fkkundi @grok translate this to english