Umer Zaib

A Karachi based journalist and a good Samaritan

[Umer Zaib @umerzai_b]

Our story on Pakistani arms in Ukraine made it to GIJN's best investigative reports from Pakistan in 2023 🥳 @AreebaFatimaa

https://t.co/wUrEgZkgWE

[jake rhodes @jakebrodes]

I have control over these little beautiful things. I choose to drown them in beer and nicotine and stress them out by reading 5 books a month all called You’re Fucked: Powerless and Alone in the 21st century. Once every few weeks I’ll be in a good mood. A kind of false respite

[sarwar bari @BariSarwra]

Establishment has ruined Pakistan its state, economy as well as society’ development. Now it has committed a strategic blunder by suppressing the Kashmiris. Tens of thousands of Kashmiris marched in London today. I had participated in dozens of rallies on Gaza and against the USA invasion on Iran. I can say with confidence that today’s Kashmir rally was one of the largest rallies in recent past

[Barrister Abuzar Salman Niazi @SalmanKNiazi1]

Defence advanced by Ahmad Raza Dar that he did not personally commit the act of rape is legally misconceived and does not absolve him of criminal responsibility. Under Pakistan's criminal law, liability in cases of gang rape extends to every individual who participates in the commission of the offence pursuant to a common intention. Section 375-A of the Pakistan Penal Code expressly provides that each member of the group is guilty of gang rape, irrespective of the specific role played. Consistent with this principle, the superior courts have repeatedly held that criminal liability is not confined to the person who physically commits the act; it equally attaches to those who facilitate, aid, guard, transport or otherwise contribute to the execution of the offence. Even servant of perpetrators who facilitates commission of offence is equally liable. The law therefore recognizes every participant in a gang rape as equally culpable and equally liable to punishment

[Niaz Murtaza @NiazMurtaza2]

When brutalities, cruelties and autocracies become as rampant as they are today in pk, it is the moral and intellectual duty of all scholars to become activists based on their knowledge to define such horrors and their impact, condemn them and checkmate the attempts of autocrats to justify and normalize them. Knowledge only becomes truth once scholars do that. Staying on the fence is a dereliction of scholarly duty.

[Umer Zaib @umerzai_b]

@sheeo91 This is the only rhetoric congruent with our military strategy

[Umer Zaib @umerzai_b]

@AWGoraya @AreebaFatimaa Then why does Sophia Chishty have an office at Bol? Chishtys indeed make day to day decisions related to content, personnel, finance and ops, of course under guidance from agencies. But if your point is that they only chipped in money, that's wrong.

[Areeba Fatima @AreebaFatimaa]

BOL News has defaulted on transport payment worth 95 lacs, and then subsequently blocked the vendor’s phone number, refused him entry on their premises, and refused to engage with him entirely. What a bunch of idiots who have no idea how to ethically run a business. 1/3

[Dr. Nika Soon-Shiong @nikasoonshiong]

I have been informed that I'm no longer a member of the Committee to Protect Journalists board. Below is the email I sent the board last night.

[Umer Zaib @umerzai_b]

Disappointing to see a “senior journalist” proudly justify civilian casualties using tired Zionist talking points.

In the attack on Umeed camp Kabul 200+ civilians were killed. What military benefit did Pakistan achieve that could possibly justify the murder of 200+ innocents?

[Zaigham Khan @zaighamkhan]

If you want a clean war without civilian casualties, kindly ask your devils to put their proxy terrorists in military camps and fight it out in the open. A dirty proxy war cannot be dirty on one side of the border and clean on the other side.

[Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️ @GarrettPetersen]

Fact Check:

This is actually a debunked conspiracy theory. While it is happening, and people are actively working to make it happen, a conspiracy requires them to collaborate in secret (they are doing so openly).

[🇵🇸 اویس @Rainypainyy]

One of the most interesting speeches I’ve come across: Afghanistan’s late president, Najibullah asked in the 80s why so many foreign Arab fighters traveled to Afghanistan for jihad when Palestine was right next door.

[Guy @nosilverv]

Reminds me of this the way the emojis are converging. I wish I was good enough to wrangle AI to show it. carcinization

[Chris Ward @MasterWambo]

Not only do we not live in cyberpunk, but cyberpunk will never happen for the exact reason it's such an alluring setting: The downtrodden underclass are never going to become super high agency computer wiz genius street samurai warriors, hacking into corpo supercomputers and committing acts of terrorism against THE MAN. They're actually just going to be fat degen gooners and addicts, outsourcing all cognitive function (and gambling action) to machines, eating kool-aid pineapple and sharing AI videos of African kids doing autobody work with brick and mortar. "Oh my God, can you believe this!?” And they'll drink fabric dye elixirs because their penis doesn't work, and shop at Walmart and traffic in novel hybrids of conspiracy theory on the techno-occult app.

The great conceit of cyberpunk is that it assumes most people are transhumanists at heart. That they're incredibly savvy and talented, and they'd all do so well if THE MAN just got out of their way and let them upgrade. As it turns out, people can't even handle the internet. They could barely handle the television. The camera has stricken them in hypnosis, reorienting their gaze to see things for it rather than themselves. Ubiquitous access to food has destroyed their bodies. All communication now routed through a sensory deprivation box, and suddenly they want to end their life. There will be no laser katanas.

The pioneering writers of the genre always assumed, like many people still do today, that technological pessimism relies on a corrupted design. There was nothing essential about it. The revealed dilemma is that man interacting with highly optimized systems doesn't need to be coerced into dysfunction much at all. We can do bad all by ourselves. You merely have to leave too much kibble in the bowl.

[Alan Levinovitz @AlanLevinovitz]

Amazing essay “On Girls” by a 19th century schoolboy, picked out by Mark Twain as the funniest (genuine) boy’s composition he has ever seen.

“they always now their lessons bettern boys” … just incredible

[Umer Zaib @umerzai_b]

@SajKhan01273642 @Taimur_Laal “Simple believer that empowered governments that come out of free and fair elections is a good idea.”

Could always tell you are a hypocrite. What’s awful is that the country is being run into the ground and zero benefits have accrued from all the gallivanting over the past year.

[Umer Zaib @umerzai_b]

@faraz_lhr Limited military action? We've bombed their capital multiple times killing hundreds of civilians. We need to use force but to service an objective. I think forcing economic integration would go much farther than blind violence.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨NEW: There Have Only Been 3 Criminal Indictments Against Israeli Soldiers for Gaza War Crimes in First 18 Months of War

@umerzai_b reviewed internal Israeli records for Drop Site News and finds a justice system designed to provide impunity.

https://t.co/PYdZF31Aqr

[Umer Zaib @umerzai_b]

@b_r_khan_ What is a security state in this context?

[Umer Zaib @umerzai_b]

@zburki People hate triumphalism when they can FEEL the noose tightening around their neck.

[Umer Zaib @umerzai_b]

Hum khayenge to sahi, magar jataayenge bhi! So unaccountable that they don’t even feel the need to muster a response.

[Asad Nasir @asadnasir2000]

🚨 Last Year 111 Institutions Were Given Tax Exemption Including All Fauji Foundation Institutions, Ziauddin Hospital & Shifa Hospital.

Why Didn't You Impose Tax On These Institutions, Are You In Pressure?

- Sanaullah Khan