Mudassar

[Mudassar @vividcha0s]

@NkWarraich باہوں ودیا۔

[Nicolas del Caño @NicolasdelCano]

Basura genocida. Sacá tus manos manchadas de sangre de la camiseta de la selección argentina.
¡Viva Palestina Libre!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Lions don't live in jungles. They never have.

African lions live in dry grasslands and scrub. They hunt antelope under open sky, on flat ground. The 891 Asiatic lions left in the world live in Gujarat, in dry forest and scrubland that no one would call a jungle.

The phrase "king of the jungle" comes from the Hindi word "jangal," which once meant any wild, empty land that humans hadn't built on. When the word jumped into English, the meaning narrowed to "rainforest." But the title kept following the wrong cat.

Tigers live in actual jungles. Bengal tigers in the mangrove swamps where India meets Bangladesh. Sumatran tigers in Indonesian rainforest. Siberian tigers in the freezing forests of eastern Russia, where winter temperatures drop below minus forty. Find a real jungle and you might find a tiger. You will not find a lion.

Tigers are also bigger. A grown male Siberian tiger weighs around 600 pounds, heavier than four adult humans put together. A male African lion weighs 330 to 500. The biggest wild tiger ever recorded weighed 857 pounds, shot in northern India in 1967. The biggest wild lion ever recorded weighed 690 pounds, shot in South Africa in 1936. The tiger has a stronger bite, longer fangs, and a paw swipe powerful enough to kill prey in a single swing.

The Romans tested this matchup directly. They opened the Colosseum in the year 80 AD and one of the things they did for entertainment was throw a lion and a tiger in the ring and bet on which one walked out alive. The poet Martial wrote about a tigress killing a male lion in front of the crowd. Most surviving accounts and modern historians say the tiger usually won.

The lion's whole reputation is cultural. Lions live in groups, with the male sitting in the middle while the females hunt for him, and to anyone watching that looked like a kingdom. The mane sits on the head like a crown. And the lion's roar carries five miles across open plains, where European explorers in the 1800s heard it from a long way off and built a whole mythology around the cat making the noise. They never went into the jungle to meet the tiger.

The tiger has been sitting alone in the actual jungle the whole time, heavier and stronger, ignored by the title. India figured this out in 1972 and dropped the lion as its national animal in favor of the Bengal tiger, mostly because the tiger lives across most of the country and the lion lives in just one state. The Romans had worked it out 1,900 years earlier.

[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

[Mudassar @vividcha0s]

@LahoreMarquez إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ
May Allah bless her soul, elevate her ranks and grant you sabr. Ameen

[Mudassar @vividcha0s]

@iEmNK The most shitty banking system.

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Me looking for typos before submitting my paper. Vs me finding them IMMEDIATELY after submitting

[memes.xlsx @ExcelHumor]

OneDrive: file saved auto saved

me: where?

OneDrive:

[Ahmed Alnaouq @AlnaouqA]

Kids and families playing football. Israel hated that. So they bombed them. Simple as that.

[jennine @jennineak]

in the last few days I’ve seen the face of a baby in gaza separated from the rest of their body, the jaw falling off a little girl, the guts spilling out of another girl, a mutilated child hanging off debris, five journalists killed…but they want you to be mad at a palestine pin

[Mudassar @vividcha0s]

@iEmNK pani bacha k rkhna na

[Mudassar @vividcha0s]

@tfitt96 @iEmNK bhai khiladion k sath yari ha to seekh jata bnda 😃

[Mudassar @vividcha0s]

@PhD_Genie It’s just nobody’s there to appreciate like that boy.

[Mudassar @vividcha0s]

@iEmNK Bowling was okay. It was horrendous batting. Didn't even take singles.

[Mudassar @vividcha0s]

@iEmNK

[andrew gao @itsandrewgao]

Google just shipped a new algorithm that “is able to double the profit of a container shipper, deliver 13% more containers, and do so with 15% fewer vessels.”

[Mudassar @vividcha0s]

@iEmNK Chaliye pakistan wapis???

[Umer Farooq Malik @Umer189]

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[Jihad al-Haqq • جهاد الحق @JihadalHaqq]

white people will invade and destabilize your countries for decades, fund genocidal apartheid states, and then call your people "hostile and insane" for the fallout of the mess they created