Zohaib Babar

Lawyer @LifeAtLUMS @Harvard_law

[Zohaib Babar @zohaibbabar97]

Proud of being a part of this landmark case. Hopefully a lot of good will come out of the conclusions reached in the final judgment.

https://t.co/6FJ1EZppEB

[Jeremy Loffredo @loffredojeremy]

The IDF is announcing they murdered several Palestinian kids because the Palestinian kids were in an “area” where stones had previously been thrown from.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.

Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.

I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.

We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.

I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.

What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?

I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.

[Mohammed Haniya @mohammedhaniya]

والله لتُسأل أمة محمد عن كل هذا..

حضّروا جوابا لنبيكم.. كيف تركتم غزة وحدها

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

Last night was one of the worst nights Gaza has seen. The bombs have never stopped raining down on them, and when the actual rain fell upon them, their tents flooded. So many missing limbs, all missing loved ones, most without homes. And the world just pretended it stopped. I didn’t even post an image with people this time because they’re sick of showing us images of themselves in desperation without action on our part. A reminder to you and me to not forget them because they’re no longer in your feed.

[Salahuddin Ahmed @SalAhmedPK]

Hard to describe how insane this is! After the FCC order, the Peshawar High Court is no longer entertaining ANY writ petitions!
Even under Zia & Musharraf’s martial laws, the reviled Nusrat Bhutto & Zafar Ali Shah judgments that endorsed the martial laws still asserted the 1/4

[Mohammad Zubair @Real_MZubair]

Salman Raja blasting the government.

[SIR Ahmed Khokhar @khokhr_pedia]

مولانا فضل الرحمان 🔥🔥

میں گواہی دیتا ہوں کہ مذاکرات کی ناکامی کی ذمہ دار شوباز شریف کہ حکومت ہے اور ہم اس ایمرجنسی اور گورنر راج کو مسترد کرتے ہیں

پیپلزپارٹی خود کو جمہوریت کا علمبردار سمجھتی ہے اور ہمیشہ اسی جماعت نے غیر آئینی اقدامات کیے اور جمہوریت پر شب خون مارا

جنرل مشرف سے لے کر آج کے آرمی چیف تک، تمام ادوار میں اگر ملکی حالات خراب ہوئے ہیں، دہشت گردی میں بھی اضافہ ہوا ہے، دہشت گردی کے خلاف جنگ میں ناکامیاں ہوئی ہیں، بار بار آپریشنز کے باوجود کوئی نتیجہ نہیں نکلا، تو یہ ان کی ناکامی ہے، ان کی سوچ کی ناکامی ہے، ان کی حکمتِ عملی کی ناکامی ہے اور ان کے فلسفے کی ناکامی ہے۔

آج مجھے کہا جا رہا ہے کہ میرے آپریشنز کی حمایت کرو، ہم ٹھیک کر رہے ہیں۔ ہمیں ایک لمحے کے لیے بھی تردد نہیں، لیکن 2010ء سے لے کر اب تک کے آپریشنز کا نتیجہ تو بتائیں۔

ہاگر ہم نے ایمرجنسی لگانی ہے تو پھر وفاق میں لگاؤ۔ یہ بھی ناجائز حکومت ہے، یہ بھی دھاندلی کی پیداوار ہے، یہ بھی اسٹیبلشمنٹ کی عمل داری کے نتیجے میں وجود میں آئی ہے۔ یہ بھی دہشت گردی کے خلاف ناکام ہے۔ ناکامیوں کا تو کوئی حساب نہیں، لیکن بیانیہ میرے مطابق بناؤ، اس پر ملک کو تباہ کرو، صوبے کو تباہ کرو، آئین کو تباہ کرو، سب کچھ دفن کر دو۔ یہ کون سی عقل کی بات ہے؟

ہم اس فیصلے کو قطعی طور پر مسترد کرتے ہیں، اور عوام کا فورم، پارلیمنٹ کا فورم اور عدالت کا فورم، ہم اس کے خلاف استعمال کرنے کی طرف جائیں گے۔ جماعتی سطح پر اس کے لیے ہم حکمتِ عملی بنائیں گے۔

#گورنر_راج_نامنظور

[Zohaib Babar @zohaibbabar97]

What an unbelievable disgrace this man is!!!

[Shehbaz Sharif @CMShehbaz]

President Donald Trump played a historic role in advancing peace in South Asia. His timely intervention helped bring Pakistan and India back from the brink and secure a ceasefire, that is holding till today.

In recognition of his outstanding contribution, Pakistan had nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

We sincerely hope President’s efforts to promote peace and prevent conflict in our region receive due recognition this time.

@realDonaldTrump @NobelPrize

[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

Let me help you understand because I see that you are trying to judge the architecture of the universe by using the logic of a village mechanic.

Think of a smart phone. It is more or less like a flat piece of glass, metal, and plastic sitting in your pocket. Yet, when you make a video call, this lifeless object shoots invisible frequencies into the sky. And within a split second, you are looking at a live moving image of someone halfway across the world and hearing their voice as if they are sitting right next to you.

You accept this mind bending process without question because human engineers gave it a name and sold it to you. If you took that same phone back a few centuries and tried to explain a video call, the most brilliant scholars of that era would call you crazy. They would swear it defies all known logic.

Yet, when the Creator of time, space, and quantum physics designs a celestial vessel capable of bending spatial dimensions, your mind completely shuts down.

You ignorantly reduce a metaphysical reality to a winged donkey. When humans build a rocket that breaks the sound barrier, you call it genius. When the Supreme Being operates outside your limited understanding of earthly biology, you laugh. That is not critical thinking. That is arrogance masking a severe lack of exposure. 

Jsyk, the Buraq is not a winged donkey. It as a unique celestial creation capable of traveling at incomprehensible speeds, where its single stride reaches the horizon. If modern science accepts that light travels at mind bending speeds across the universe, then you mocking a heavenly transport system just exposes your rigid, misguided and limited mind. 

Then you proceeded to mock the reduction of the prayers, calling it a negotiation. For those of us that have sense, imagine a billionaire investor sets a big target for a new startup to generate 50 million dollars in revenue.

He does this to establish the ultimate standard of what the company is truly worth. A veteran advisor steps in and warns that the young team will burn out and collapse under that heavy weight. The billionaire smiles, drops the target to 5 million, but still grants them the full 50 million dollar equity.

Did the advisor outsmart the billionaire? No. The original target was set to reveal the massive and immense value of the deal, and the reduction was a deliberate mechanism to show overwhelming generosity.

The initial decree of 50 prayers established the true weight of what humanity owes the Creator. The encounter with Moses (peace be upon him) was the divine mechanism used to unveil His mercy to human weakness. He gave us the discount of 5 while allowing us keep the full reward of 50. 

Only the believer will understand the spiritual depth of this. But even a skeptic with a functioning brain can grasp the philosophical brilliance behind it. When you mock concepts that are lightyears beyond your comprehension, you do not expose the religion. You only put your own intellectual poverty on public display.

I pray the Almighty guides you.

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

Gaza before and after the Genocide

[NADA 𓂆 @nadaa01012]

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE.
DON'T LOOK AWAY.
DON'T STAY SILENT.

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

No words. Truly no words. Ran out of them over the last three years.

[Zohaib Babar @zohaibbabar97]

What a mighty journalist Mehdi Hassan is, scaring away an entire terrorist organisation from showing up to debate him. What an honor!!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The IDF came into my replies to try & boost their fake report accusing Palestinian journalists they murdered of being Hamas. But when @piersmorgan invited them to debate the so-called evidence with me, they didn't show up so... he empty-chaired them. And then I debunked their 'study'.

Full show, including my debate with two Israeli propagandists: https://t.co/W37cIlVg2a

[Zohaib Babar @zohaibbabar97]

@CMComplaintCell @ccpolahore @OfficialDPRPP @GovtofPunjabPK @MaryamNSharif Location is Multani Masjid, Near Sue Asal Stop, Kot Mela Ram Village, Kahna area.

[Zohaib Babar @zohaibbabar97]

From Kahna PS area. Qari known for physically assaulting young kids. Can be seen here beating them with a stick. Lodged complaint on CM Portal but there has been no follow-up. Immediate action required
@CMComplaintCell @ccpolahore @OfficialDPRPP @GovtofPunjabPK @MaryamNSharif

[Nusrat Javeed @javeednusrat]

Policy makers need to consider this article SERIOUSLY. Made me think anyway.

[Nasim Zehra @NasimZehra]

Imaan and Haadi were taken from Adiala Jail by Islamabad Police around 8:30–9:00 tonight and transferred to Kohsar Police Station. Reportedly, they have been arrested in yet another FIR—this time under anti-terrorism provisions.
Comfortably numb, we watch this sham unfold: half a dozen FIRs used to circumvent court orders and keep two citizens behind bars.
Today, the Supreme Court had upheld the law and granted Imaan and Haadi bail pending a fresh IHC hearing in the tweets case. Earlier, after what was widely described as an IHC travesty of a trial, they were sentenced to 17 years in prison. They have already spent nearly eight months in Adiala Jail.

We are witnessing traversity of justice…plain & simple..and we must say so. We must do right by our Beloved Pakistan… and speak up.

[Miftah Ismail @MiftahIsmail]

Pakistan has by far the highest electricity price in the region. A big reason is the high capacity costs (including unused capacity) we consumers have to bear. 52.6% of our electricity bill is just capacity cost.

According to NEPRA our dependable capacity is now 39,000 MWs and our daytime demand is 12,000 MW (due to proliferation of home and industrial solar).

Should we really be adding more capacity, especially capacity that will end up increasing our power bills? This is exactly what the government is proposing to do!

NEPRA just approved a $57 billion IGCEP capacity increase plan, which includes $47 bn in new capacity and $11 bn in new transmission infrastructure. This is in addition to the 8000 MWs of solar that NEPRA expects the consumers to install for self-generation. This is madness.

If there is one lesson about power policy that we should learn from 1994 to now is that it’s best for the government to stay out of the power business and not issue guarantees to buy power. Let private sector figure out the demand and risk their own capital.

If private sector thinks it can set up projects and sell power to DISCOs and consumers, let them put up the projects at their own risk. The government’s and regulator’s job should be to help establish a wholesale market for electricity and not issue guarantees for power purchases.

Just as we thought we would get rid of the yoke of capacity payments in a few years, our government is going ahead with projects that will bind us to high capacity payments for decades. This is how now to run a power policy.

@rehanjawed @aikhwaja @81ShahbazRana @haider_mehtab

[Zohaib Babar @zohaibbabar97]

Have never read a better double meaning op-ed. Wow 😂

[Suhail Warraich @suhailswarraich]

شہباز شریف17سال تک اقتدار میں رہے انہیں نظام کی وہ خرابیاں نظر نہ آسکیں جو میں نے فوراً پہچان لیں۔ صدر زرداری گزشتہ46سال سے سیاسی میدان میں ہیں،11سال جیل میں رہے لیکن وہ ملکی نظام کو بہتر کرنے کا وہ فارمولا نہ بنا سکے جو میں بنا چکا تھا ، عمران خان نے سیاسی میدان میں18سال دھکے کھائے اقتدار حاصل کیا اور اب جیل میںہے لیکن اسے بھی ملک کے ان اصل مسائل سے آگاہی نہ ہوسکی جو مجھ پر عیاں ہو گئی
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