Zulfiqar Khimani

PhD Candidate | Anthropologist studying Muslim societies. Areas of interest: Critical Theory, Sociology of Religion, Philosophy, Media and Development issues.

[salman akram raja @salmanAraja]

Today I mourn the loss of Professor Amin Mughal in London. Since my days as a student at Cambridge in the 1980s he was a mentor and a guide. Whether it was reading political philosophy or poetry and literature he was the kind spirit holding my hand.

I last met him last summer. Nadir Cheema, his loving care-giver and contact with us for decades, and I walked him to his favourite watering hole near his retirement home. His mind was buzzing with new thoughts about the elusiveness of democracy. I told him we would succeed.

The summer of 1989 that I spent working for him in London in the newspaper section he was editing has remained a period etched in magic in my mind. After work we would sit with other friends for hours dreaming. His group consisted of poets and philanderers _ free spirits _ who like himself had suffered the brutality of the Zia martial law. They rarely talked about the dungeons of the Lahore Fort where many of them had suffered the stripping away of their dignity.

He had been involved in the quest for human liberation since own college days in Sialkot in the early 1950s. He would talk about his mentors in journalism: giants like Faiz Sahib, Mazhar Ali Khan, IA Rehman. His intellectual kindred spirit was Professor Manzoor. He would recall his work with trade unions during the Ayub martial law and his arrest and later expulsion from his teaching position. Undeterred, he got together with colleagues similarly ousted to form the Sangat Shah Husain, an educational institute that upheld human values and the unrestrained joy of the mother tongue of the Punjab.

After facing the Zia dungeons he had came to England in the mid 1980s and never once went back. I asked him why he wouldnt ever go back. He said he couldn’t. I put it down to self-respect. As his friends and comrades passed he mourned each loss with dignity and continued to make time for the company of those to whom he meant so much. Rest in peace dear Amin Sahib.

[Tariq Suleman @Phaederus]

Pakistan today stands at the centre of a rapidly realigning world order. Moments like this are not merely achievements; they are openings. The image Pakistan has acquired in this short span of time is one that states often spend decades building.
#IslamabadTalks

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Well guys, you're gonna have to learn his f*cking name now."

I went on a rant at the Zohran Mamdani event last night, against billionaires who spent millions to try and stop a guy whose name they refuse to correctly pronounce.

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[Fox News @FoxNews]

NEW: NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani challenges President Trump in his victory speech:

“New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants. And as of tonight, led by an immigrant.”

“So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: To get any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”

[Roxanna Irani @IraniRoxanna]

First day at IQSA. Amazing day, the highlight of which was Dr Ahmad Al-Jallad’s keynote lecture on the Qur’an in light of 1500 years of pre-Islamic Arabian epigraphy. The recent developments in this field are so incredibly exciting and only seem to be the beginning.

This conference feels like my version of Glastonbury or Coachella. I spent the day fangirling whenever I spotted an academic whose work I had read or watched, and becoming completely tongue tied whenever I had to speak to anyone.

@iqsaweb @Back2daM00N

[Zulfiqar Khimani @zaskhimani]

@EsmeLKPartridge Congratulations 👍 👏🏻

[Zulfiqar Khimani @zaskhimani]

@avtansa Thank you for providing more details.

[Zulfiqar Khimani @zaskhimani]

@avtansa I am wondering is there any relationship with Lohana caste/tribe with the city? Though if my memory serves well Lohana were mostly gujrati and sindhis.

[Sabahat Zakariya @sabizak]

Responding to Mr. Hijab’s hodgepodge of an argument. You might sound smart because you have a British accent, but doesn’t mean you actually are.

[Karim @kjindani]

@SpokespersonECP - how can files be created on 11th February and modified on 10th February #Pakistan #Selection2024

[Soulat Pasha @soulat_pasha]

رابند�� ناتھ ٹئیگور 1923 میں کراچی تشریف لائے تھے، انکو میونسپل کمیٹی نے ایک تقریب میں مدعو کیا، یہ اسی وقت کی تصویر ہے، وہ اس دورے کے دوران حیدرآباد بھی گئے تھے اور وہاں انکے نام پر قائم ایک ناٹک سبھ قائم ہوی، اسکے بعد انکے سندھ میں کئی مشہور شخصیات سے خط و کتابت رہی۔۔

[Zulfiqar Khimani @zaskhimani]

A very big loss!

[John Pilger @johnpilger]

It is with great sadness the family of John Pilger announce he died yesterday 30 December 2023 in London aged 84. His journalism and documentaries were celebrated around the world, but to his family he was simply the most amazing and loved Dad, Grandad and partner. Rest In Peace.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Many in the US believe that Latin American migrants are prone to crime.

Spain has had a good bit of immigration over the last few decades, so it allows us to test this theory in a different cultural context. A 2012 paper looked at crime rates for immigrant groups of different origins from 2000 to 2006, and finds that those from Ecuador and Peru have the lowest murder rates adjusted for age, even below Chinese!

Ecuadorian, Colombian, and Peruvian migrants also have lower arrest rates for burglary and battery than migrants from the UK, although Chinese are the lowest in every category except murder.

In the case of Ecuadorians, what's really impressive is that they have tended to be less educated. In the mid-2000s, only 60% of Ecuadorians in Spain had at least some secondary (i.e., high school) education.

The authors argue that Latin American migrants have contributed to keeping the crime rate from rising in Spain, the way it has risen in other European countries.

They write that "our result is fully consistent with the evidence for the United States regarding Mexican immigrants (known as the Latino Paradox), where immigration from Mexico has lowered crime rates in some areas." This can happen to a certain extent even in a low-crime country like Spain.

h/t @crapped_yoly https://t.co/Jfox7HzjTr

[Iram S Khan @IramSKhan1]

Let the girls be what they want to be!
Dua’s dance from last night!

#GilgitBaltistan #Hunza

[Dr. Kaiser Bengali @kaiserbengali]

Countryside ports to be sold to UAE?
Saudi team scouring airports
Is everything to be sold off to raise dollars for today?
What will happen tomoro when nothing to sell is left?
The elite will flee abroad
The people will be left at the brutal mercy of foreign commercial masters.

[D @Le_Sabre54]

The Tamils of Karachi.

[Abbas Aghdassi @a_aghdassi]

New Methodological Perspectives in Islamic Studies is officially out--a fantastic set of papers with a wonderful team of contributors.

More: https://t.co/6tJUdetPn6…

@BrillPublishing
@Brill_Religious
@Brill_ME_Africa

[Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir @ImaanZHazir]

I want my mother back home. She has not been involved in any acts of violence so why is she still in jail? @CMShehbaz @OfficialDGISPR

#ReleaseShireenMazari
#ReleaseAllPoliticalPrisoners

[Matiullah Jan @Matiullahjan919]

آج سپریم کورٹ میں ایڈوکیٹ عمر عطا بندیال نے چیف جسٹس عمر عطا بندیال کے بنچ کی تشکیل متعلق اختیارات کے حق میں تفصیلی دلائل دئیے اور جو میڈیا میں بھرپور انداز میں رپورٹ ہوئے، ایڈوکیٹ عمر عطا بندیال کی دلائل ختم ہوئے تو چیف جسٹس عمر عطا بندیال نے دوسرے وکلا کو سننے کی بجائے سماعت ۸ مئی تک ملتوی کردی، ایڈوکیٹ عمر عطا بندیال نے الزام لگایا کہ سیاستدان اپنے من پسند ججوں کے ذریعے من پسند فیصلے لینا چاہتے ہیں حالانکہ آئین نے ایسا کرنے کا اختیار صرف چیف جسٹس کو دے رکھا ہے، بنچ کی تشکیل نو کی درخواستوں کی مخالفت کرتے ہوئے ایڈوکیٹ عمر عطا بندیال نے کہا کہ یہ اختیار بھی صرف چیف جسٹس کا ہوتا ہے، چیف جسٹس عمر عطا بندیال نے ایڈوکیٹ عمر عطا بندیال سے اتفاق کرتے ہوئے ریمارکس دئیے کہ جب تک بنچ پر موجود کسی جج (جسٹس مظاہر علی اکبر نقوی) کیخلا�� چیف جسٹس عمر عطا بندیاں کی سربراہی میں قائم جوڈیشل کونسل کاروائی نہیں کرتی اسوقت تک اس جج کو بطور جج کام کرنے سے روکا نہیں جا سکتا۔ ایڈوکیٹ عمر عطا بندیال نے اپنے دلائل میں الزام لگایا کہ سیاستدانوں نے عدالتی ماحول کو آلودہ کر دیا ہے اور اس بات کی تائید کرتے ہوئے چیف جسٹس عمر عطا بندیال نے لقمہ دیا کہ یہ سیاستدان انصاف نہیں بلکہ اپنی پسند کے احکامات چاہتے ہیں جبکہ فیصلے ہماری پسند کے ہی ہونگے۔ چیف جسٹس عمر عطا بندیال نے ایڈوکیٹ عمر عطا بندیال کی دلائل منظور کرتے ہوئے پاکستان کے اٹارنی جنرل اور پاکستان بار کونسل کی بنچ کی تشکیل نو کی زبانی درخواستیں زبانی طور پر ہی مسترد کر دی، پارلیمنٹ کے قانون کو مسترد کروانے والے درخواست گذاروں کے وکیل خواجہ طارق رحیم نے سر ہلا کر ایڈوکیٹ عمر عطا بندیال کے دلائل سے اتفاق کرنے کا اعلان کر دیا۔ آئیندہ سماعت پر بھی ایڈوکیٹ عمر عطا بندیال کا چیف جسٹس عمر عطا بندیال کے اختیارات کے حق میں دلائل جاری رکھنے کا امکان ہے۔

[Zulfiqar Khimani @zaskhimani]

@Gypsy_heart8 @omarali50 @gypsy_heart6 Really sorry to hear that. But I can see tweets on your heart 6 account.