Abdul Zahir

‏میں غلط روائتوں کا اچھا وارث ثابت نہیں ہوا

[Abdul Zahir @zahirjamali]

This romance with the colonial past is not merely an elite lifestyle choice. It is coded into the judiciary, the bureaucracy, the army and the police, which have never severed their founding colonial logic despite repeated reforms.

[Owais Tohid @OwaisTohid]

Pakistan’s colonial past isn’t just history.
In my latest column for Arab News, I wrote about how the colonial legacy has chained Pakistan’s power structure.
How does, nearly 80 years after independence, Pakistan still run on laws and institutions built to control its people?
https://t.co/bbqLzGWmQX

[Abdul Zahir @zahirjamali]

Give a generation that conviction and no amendment can take it from them, for a conviction cannot be amended.

[Dawn.com @dawn_com]

Op-Ed: "The gravest damage was done not by generals or bureaucrats but by judges. The judiciary was meant to be the citizen’s shield — the one institution whose purpose is to say no to power on the authority of law. But it too was a colonial inheritance, and carried the reflex in its bones: under the Raj it had served the sovereign, not the subject, and at independence it transferred that loyalty from the departed Crown to the new establishment, not the people. So when the tanks rolled, the courts, again and again, said yes."

https://t.co/UnifCddHCH

[Logan Hall @loganclarkhall]

“You say you want to cultivate desert power and you don’t know how many spice fields are on Arrakis?”

[fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @fbhutto]

The world is watching Rafah. We see who is silent.

[Abdul Zahir @zahirjamali]

@lok_sujag Plz allow @Waseem13134666 to share his analysis

[Pelham @Resist_05]

International Court of Justice calls for Israel to hand back the occupied land including Jerusalem.

End the illegal settlements and hand back the confiscated properties to Palestinians.

Punishment for crimes against humanity committed such as apartheid and genocide.

Israel must fully compensate Palestinians through repatriations for their crimes committed…🇮🇱🇵🇸

[Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi @Ali_Abbas_Zaidi]

Mian Sb: I love yoouuuu. Do you love me?
PPP: I just like you as a friend.

Friend zoned.

[Abdul Zahir @zahirjamali]

Pakistan's political landscape resembles episodes of "Black Mirror," each unfolding with increasing dystopia, shock, and theatricality. The narrative remains uncertain until its conclusion.

#Election2024Pakistan

[Dr. Maryam S. Khan @MaryamShKhan]

Intellect can never be a substitute for happiness.

[Abdul Zahir @zahirjamali]

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[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Watch the Video YouTube Doesn't Want You To See:

Israel & the Myth of 'Self Defence' @davidahearst

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP party and its Hindu nationalist allies have perfected using social media to spread inflammatory, often false and bigoted material on an industrial scale, earning both envy and condemnation beyond India’s borders. https://t.co/k3jj7iv3o3

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

My greatest TV victory

#Lebanon #Israel #SkyNews #AnnaBotting

[Abdul Zahir @zahirjamali]

For in an era impatient with institutions, salvation had to be found in charismatic individuals who could stamp their destiny on the nation.
-Pratap Bhanu Mehta

[Shahzeb Khanzada @shazbkhanzdaGEO]

قائد اعظم یونیورسٹی میں ہولی کا تہوار منانے پر ہائیرایجوکیشن کمیشن کا غیر منطقی نوٹیفیکیشن ریاست کی دقیانوسی سوچ کی عکاسی کرتا ہے۔ ہر چیز پرپابندی لگانےکی اس سوچ نے ملک کی معیشت، ثقافت، معاشرت اور سیاست کو تباہ کرکے رکھ دیا ہے۔ دیکھیے

[Abdul Zahir @zahirjamali]

It was painful to watch, but it was a good TV.

[Succession @succession]

"It's done."

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.”

― Erich Fromm

[Abdul Zahir @zahirjamali]

Post-truth is concept as “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. This has made democracy from a rational to an emotional political system
-Mellisa Zimdara

[Dr. Maryam S. Khan @MaryamShKhan]

1. People are calling your proposal exactly what it is. Neoliberal. Call it a political interest instead of ideology if you like. Perhaps ground your idea in data that shows what a pvt school, that offers demonstrably better learning outcomes, costs vis a vis a govt school in...

[Abdul Zahir @zahirjamali]

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.
-Albert Camus