Huma

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[Huma @zaatijail]

بےغیرت اپنی ماؤں کو بیچنے والوں بتاؤ #گولی_کیوں_چلائی

[Huma @zaatijail]

accurate.. really accurate.. only bit missing is how they flaunt ‘old money’ they think they have as a right because bloody civilians are illiterate dirty peasants

[Dr اسماء @asma_maryam18]

How is this so accurate 🤌 😂😂😂😂

[Huma @zaatijail]

@TurgayEvren1 this man is a grifter associated with Pakistan Army, and a believer in supremacy of Americans and Israelis.. ignore him

[Shiffa Z. Yousafzai @Shiffa_ZY]

Fawad sb, there is an other perspective on their conquests as well which is documented. What you’re sharing is particularly Indian historiography but do read Afghan or Muslim historiography too (Pakistani mutalia e Pakistan).

Almost all the conquests back then were not just about the territorial expansion but about sustainability and civilisational growth too (ofcourse expansion of territory included but not limited to that only).

Plunder was often the primary practical reason armies could even function. Otherwise sustainability always was a challenge. Religious temple wealth was a common target because temples functioned as treasuries. Hindu kings raided rival kingdoms' temples too. This wasn’t the case only in subcontinent but was a global practice. Vikings raided monasteries in Europe for the same reason. Rome, the Mongols, the Aztecs, various Chinese dynasties carried out extraction of wealth through several ways and plunder or outright looting was one of them. It was essentially how empires were built and sustained almost everywhere, across nearly all eras. So it’s historically insccurate to treat Abdali or Ghaznavi’s extraction as some unusual moral failing. Thats the human history.

Therefore, reducing their dynasties to only loot and plunder is unfair.

There were some significant cultural and intellectual contributions made by them. And India also has built upon some of those contributions such as Al-Bairuni (astronomer, mathematician). Patronised through the court of Mehmud Ghaznavi. Bairuni’s Kitab al Hind is considered a landmark contribution in Indian society and science. Ferdowsi’s Shahnamay are still known to the world of poets. His period is historically known as the golden age for Persian poetry. Whatever one’s view is on their raids, but Ghaznavi dynastry made major contributions to persian language and culture, also laid the foundation of administrative practices which were later adopted by Delhi and Mughal sultanate.

Abdali is known as the father of Afghanistan (Ahmad Shah Baba) as he is regarded as the one for unification of Pushtoon tribes in Afghanistan. His victory in the third battle of Panipat is accredited as preserving Muslim political power in India (though this depends on whose historical narrative one follows). His administration is said to be more pragmatic and tolerant and not sectarian than those before him as he built a multi ethnic empire with Tajiks, Hazaras, Pushtuns, Baloch etc).

So both are contested. On one hand celebrated as patrons of culture and state-builders in Afghan, Pakistani and Muslim historiography while remembered for destruction and plunder in Indian historiography.

Why Pakistan’s missiles are named after them because it is a message/symbolism of the force and power which invaded and defeated forces and powers in the Indian subcontinent - a historical narrative of subcontinent’s conquests that Pakistan relates with aligning with Two-Nation theory (opposite to Indian narrative).

India has done the same, their missile Prithvi is named after the King Prithvi Raj Chauhan defeated by Ghauri. Its strategic Hindu-Muslim civilizational messaging.

I dont expect people like chauhan to have that kind of depth or understanding to absorb this but engaged with your tweet because you have a knack for history.

My recommended reads for you on the subject:

The Pathans by Olaf Caroe (a must).
Ahmad Shah Durrani by Ganda Singh
Somanatha: The many voices of History by Romila Thapar

[Jenny Chapman @JennyChapman]

Wrong. None of our aid goes to the Govt of Pakistan and our aid is half what it was in your last year in office.

In 2017, when you did my job, and Ahmed was in court fighting steps to deprive him of his UK citizenship, you gave Pakistan £402m, more than any country in the world.

[Ru’a — This Is Not the End @ZHNR59]

I still wonder which is more brutal, which is closer to madness…

Is it when a wedding is bombed?
Or when a house of mourning is struck?

Then even the funeral was bombed—
the bodies,
the mourners,
and the angels that walked beside them. :(

[Huma @zaatijail]

Don’t forget Gaza ..

[Moeed Pirzada @MoeedNj]

نور جہاں، مسرت شاہین، یحییٰ خان، جرنل نیازی، ٹکا خان، باجوہ وغیرہ رکھ لیں! زیادہ رعب پڑے گا

[Mehlaqa Samdani @MehlaqaCAPJ]

“One of my final and most revealing exchanges with Prof. Esposito concerned an international appeal demanding medical transparency and humane treatment for former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan. He was deeply disturbed by the situation. Still, I told him I would understand if he preferred not to sign. Pakistan had awarded him one of its highest civil honors, and he was habitually received there as a state guest. Public dissent could jeopardize relationships cultivated over decades.
He did not deliberate for two seconds.
“Add my name,” he said.

Soon afterward, representatives connected to the Pakistani Embassy approached him with exquisite politeness. They praised him, honored him, and then delicately suggested that he had misunderstood Pakistan and been misinformed. Esposito replied that he understood the situation perfectly well. When he recounted the conversation to me, we laughed.”

https://t.co/va3uI563NL via @MuslimMatters

[Moeed Pirzada @MoeedNj]

Erdogan was afraid that Asim Munir will occupy his chair?

[Huma @zaatijail]

Best 😆😆😆😆😆

[Kay 180 seats @aaluwalibiryani]

Just told my husband hamain tou dono mulk hi esay milay hain na wo cricket jeet’te hain na yeh football

[Huma @zaatijail]

@aaluwalibiryani been a football fan since teenage years, and have never seen England play like they want to win, always looking to defend and holding their end..

[Huma @zaatijail]

@moeedahmed Baldy only knows the language his masters in Pindi use..

[Huma @zaatijail]

@faizannriaz You’re my wonderwall by Oasis

[Huma @zaatijail]

@SaffinaEllahi1 انْ شَاءَاللّهُ

[Huma @zaatijail]

I wish all journalists were like Jeremy Scahill..

[Huma @zaatijail]

Who ever i speak to in Pakistan.. is filled with rage and never ending hatred for the real cancer in Pakistan.. the dollar driven fascist vampires of Pakistan Army.. from dirt poor to proper educated high income earning individual, all hate them and rightly so

[Huma @zaatijail]

@GKamranKhan مشکل حالات ہیں، اگر علی نواز کی طرح خاموش ہوجائے تو سمجھیں واقعی مجبور کردیا گیا ہو لیکن اگر فواد چوہدری کی طرح بوائز کی زبان بولے تو کہانی کچھ اور ہے

[Huma @zaatijail]

@Sherazi_Silmian she has her relatives there, her son’s inlaws and her Grand children are there. kuch research karlia karo askari sahafi

[Huma @zaatijail]

@aaluwalibiryani she is right though, you look way younger 😀مَاشَآءَاللّهُ 💕

[خان @khantainer]

When Shaheed Akbar Sherani realized no help would reach him during the siege, he took out a pen and paper and wrote down the names of the people he owed money to, along with the amounts. The blood-stained note was later found in the pocket of his body.