I had the opportunity to speak at a conference organised by London School of Economics to speak alongside Judith Butler. I received a standing ovation for my intervention which obviously is b/c of all my comrades collective wisdom which taught me everything I know. A snippet.
I as a citizen of Pakistan request my govt to treat the “captive” Indian pilot well and send him back ASAP as a gesture of peace. Come on Pakistan you can do this
#SayNoToWar
Pasoori is at 99 million & about to hit 100 million soon on YouTube. The song is currently a hit globally playing in the malls of Japan, the clubs in Sweden, the cars in India and all over Bangladesh. It hit the Spotify global charts weeks ago & was in top 20 on Singapore Spotify
Mother of Nawfil Saleemi speaking about his son and the rest of the political prisoners of Islamabad protest. More power to her and mothers like her. She fought against Zia and today her son is fighting the fight now
#ReleaseIslamabadProtestors
This man in one interview says he often cheats on his wife & he’s such a great actor that she never finds out. When iffat asks him about
#MeToo
he dismisses the movement and says “yeh sab deen say dori hai”
Pakistani men are just work of art!
Both the husband and wife were at work when their houses were demolished,returned to see only ruins of what was home once.husband is a driver & the woman a domestic help.Thank you
@ImranKhanPTI
for the millions of houses youve provided the working poor
#StopEvictions
Dear men of my country I’m collecting your photos and screenshots, each one of you who is abusing & threatening, then I’m going to stalk the f*ck out of you & make sure it reaches everyone you know and don’t know!
My daadi refused to marry on the day of her wedding and the barat had to return because she was smitten by the handsome ustaad walking by her street, said I’ll only marry him. The handsome ustaad later became my grandfather. 🙈
Imagine the horror Pakistani women live through everyday in the streets of Pakistan that Turkey had to restrict visa issuance to Pakistan due to the harassment of Turkish women by Pakistani men.
To the young people who believed in PTI, I hope you continue to fight for the alternative politics and build it anew with people like yourself. May you do not look for a messiah this time and build a truly people's politics.
Shame on
@MiftahIsmail
- Appeasing the US by trying to ridicule basic Islamic concept of Amar Bil Maroof, as he mumbles & stumbles showing his ignorance. Is nothing sacred for this coterie of crooks?
#MarchAgainstImportedGovt
Look at this woman
@ImranKhanPTI
and tell me how you’ll sleep tonight when these people have no place to call home, no place to shelter their kids. Look at the anger and misery of this woman! What is your Naya Pakistan and where are the promises of housing?
#StopEvictions
My own critique of it being “coke” sponsored commercial music on one side, this song hitting the global charts speaks about the superiority of Pakistani musicians who have continued to create music in sometimes not a conducive situations.
I would like to thank
@dcislamabad
for his prompt action & sending the police in the case of harassment in F-9 park today. He personally made sure that the police arrived in time and facilitated the process to arrest the man. Will share details in a bit.
The last time Pakistan witnessed floods this bad or close was over a decade ago. The awareness was much more and the relief efforts much greater. Tv channels were doing live transmissions to raise funds. This time the state, media are miserably failing people.
Financial abuse is perhaps one of the most common type of abuse women face in their marriages. I barely know a woman in my family (amongst those not working) who has access to money. The partners torture them by not even giving money for medical treatment.
I didn’t do it all these years but damn
@Malala
this is not forgivable. You have been co-opted and you’re no longer so young that you cannot make informed choices. This is terribly sad and downright disgusting. Hillary is a war monger & an enemy of the third world
Was this a slip of the tongue too? Imran Khan claiming if poor come into politics the will loot & plunder. Believes politics should only be for the rich
Don’t forget this is the man who shared a doctored video against Aurat March organisers inciting that their slogans were blasphemous.
He is one of THEM!
To all the Sri Lankan brothers!! As a Pakistani, I am extremely sorry. What happened today is neither Islam nor the ideology of Pakistan. We will try our best to put the culprits behind bars and punish them severely. The family of the Sri Lankan guy is our family.
#Sialkot
Floods are no longer in the news cycle but children are losing their lives everyday due to the health issues arising.
Snake bites, malaria, dengue and skin infections are most commonly occurring health conditions.
#FloodsInPakistan
Baloch mothers walking towards D chowk to demand justice for their sons, to demand their safe return home. Years after years have passed by for these women looking for their sons.
#ReleaseBalochMissingPersons
photo by
@spin_ghar
Country is defaulting, millions are suffering while our finance minister comes up with the best economic recovery plan till date - let’s organise a free hajj trip for parliamentarians so they can all pray for Pakistan.
Raging right now!!! Mazaak he banna diya hai hamara
PTI followers today complaining of being harassed for simply tweeting and expressing their right to political association.. well guess what many of us had to go through in IK’s regime? That’s exactly what we were saying to YOU guys but you labelled us traitors & anti-state.
Pakistan peoples party is only progressive on Twitter, in reality every second MNA from sindh is This man.
About time either drop the act or fix your home. One or two good guys in the entire party where majority are feudals makes no difference. Such a shame.
سیلاب اور وڈیرے کے بیٹے ۔ فرش پر بیٹھی غریب عوام ہے ۔ چارپائی پر بیٹھے کولڈ ڈرنک پیتے یہ ایم این اے پیر امیر علی شاہ جیلانی ہے ۔ سائیں بوتل پینے کے بعد سگریٹ سُلگاتے ہیں ۔ پھر پیر صاحب منرل واٹر پانی سے اپنا جوتا صاف کرتے ہیں ۔ ہائے میری سندھ کے نصیب
She went to the hospital for a check up. She was raped and killed. The doctors have fled and are nowhere to be found.
I’m too tired and emotionally affected to write more than that but imagine yourself as a woman in this country
Really hope that the holier than thou who hate when feminists take to the streets can listen to a PTI representative saying this. This is the society women live in Pakistan.
Pakistani women must start sharing the photos of the clothes we were wearing when we got harassed and assaulted! Just so we can be told if they meets the standards of “very less clothes” or not. Also men who don’t rape women please change your names to robots so we know !
Arresting peacefully protesting students in Quetta today is absolutely shameful. What options do students have to raise their concerns? Student unions?BANNED! Peaceful protests? ARRESTED!
The students should be released immediately. In solidarity✊🏾
#ReleaseAllStudents
I was just called in a live show and I had to drop out in the middle of the show because I realised Kh*lil ur Rehman is sitting on panel. Why can’t channels stop calling a man who abuses women in national television? Why must we call him to talk about women & to hurt women?
During Mr Khan’s regime, feminists went through the worst kind of intimidation, harassment, court cases and death threats. The government did not issue even ONE statement for their protection. Open letters were written to prime minister IK.
This is also a moment of reflection for all progressive forces in Pakistan. If you leave religion only to the fanatics and distance yourself completely from it, it will be overtaken by these violent groups.
The mix of millennials collaborating with experienced musicians is what made the magic happen at Coke studio this year.
We know that Pakistan is a young country in terms of population demographics and THIS right here tells us why that’s such an asset.
Niece comes home to tell me she had a bad day at school cause teacher screamed at her for not having a ruler.
She’s 6.
Why don’t adults realise that screaming at little ones really shakes them. They are too small to make sense of it and it ends up ruining their good times.
So I heard that today PTI is pissed at Chomsky - a man who has criticised the empire his entire life is going to be trolled for not being anti-imperialist enough. What a day!
My Mamoo’s car which he bought after saving up his money for years got stollen from DHA Islamabad today. Through m-tag we got to know it’s on M-2. It’s ADE 763 Toyota aqua 2014 model silver aqua. Please RT maybe we can get some help.
Say it with me and say it loud till they chant back
#MeraJismMeriMarzi
Not the state, not the mullah, not the family, not the man! MY body is ONLY MINE!
#motorwayincident
So many young women who say they’re feminists are part of THIS. sometimes I wonder why are they not angry at the behaviour of this mob of IK. Continuously abusing women, using derogatory terms for them. How do you justify all of this?
How does this behaviour get normalized?
1. Imran Khan refers to Maryam as "Naani" in a derogatory way for some cheap laughs
2. Ali Amin Gandapur takes it a step further and says "Daaku Naani" and threatens her with physical violence
3. Their followers feel okay saying this ⬇️
This is how the attacked us. Before this point they were sending “laanat” on us and then made signs of wanting to inflict sexual violence on us. They already had stones & lathis on them!
The song is fun but also soulful. It’s got a beat you can dance to but also makes you yearn for love lost.
Every part of the musical arrangement tugs at your heart and there’s absolutely nothing that I personally do not enjoy in its musicality.
The number of replies to this tweet is from Pakistani men saying this isn’t representative of Pakistan and the Pakistani women saying this is exactly what is Pakistan. It’s such an eye opener. Other Pakistani men are asking how is this harassment
Hayatında hiç "saçı görünen kadın" görmemiş medeniyetten ve insanlıktan nasibini almamış işgalci artıklar, Türk Kadınlarımızı taciz edip sosyal medyada paylaşmaya devam ediyor.
It’s also a hit in Kerala, India where anything Punjabi/Hindi/Urdu isn’t spoken and the music in these languages is never popular.
Friends are telling me it’s everywhere in Kerala - in cars, malls, homes, parties.
A young woman was kidnapped, assaulted & violated for refusing a rich man’s proposal. A similar incident made rounds a year ago where a daewoo employee who refused the proposal of a colleague and was shot by him.
We have heard countless stories about how women who are punished
Look closely, there is a familiar face in this photo - the Baloch “sensation” from Coke studio’s latest season Wahab Bugti with his family under open skies after flood washed away his home.
I wish the miseries of people didnt have to be put on display but what choice do we have!
Hearing half the Islamabad saying they were friends with the guy and knew there was something wrong with him all along but couldn’t imagine he was murderer. Well you couldn’t imagine because of his class & social capital.
سیالکوٹ میں پیش آنے والا سانحہ شرمناک، انتہائی قابل مذمت اور اسلام و شرف انسانیت کی توہین ہے، پاکستان کی بدنامی کا باعث ہے۔ اس کا اسلام اور دینی تعلیمات سے کوئی تعلق نہیں ہے۔ غیرجانبدارانہ تحقیقات کرکے مجرموں کو گرفتار کیا جائے اور قرار واقعی سزا دی جائے۔
In this video
@IsmatShahjahan
& Nawfil Saleemi are being dragged by police.Nawfil Saleemi can be heard saying “chooraiN mujhe yeh peaceful protest hai” Lifelong political worker Ismat Shahjahan being shoved in the ground.Shameful
#ReleaseIslamabadProtestors
#ReleaseNawfalSaleemi
One young girl in hijab asked special permission from her parents to paint the wall. Her brother would wait everyday for her to finish painting. This wasn’t just any mural, it was made with love, for love..
We applied for an NOC 6 weeks ago and still haven’t been given one for the
#AuratAzadiMarch2021
in Islamabad. Last year we were attacked in the capital of the country in broad daylight. What is this? Who does this country belong to?
Absolutely mind blown by this scene in Parizaad which speaks of being two spirited and queer.
Please don’t @ me telling me what’s problematic in the drama I know all of that yet I believe this is just so phenomenal.
The crowd that was invisibilised, brutalised & criminalised during PTI’s regime for raising the same slogans PTI is raising today.These people were there in great numbers too - grieving & mourning their loved ones but they were called traitors & anti-state
The people of risen against the militancy and this time they will be heard loud and clear.
No more strategic depth and no more war policies.
#WeWantPeaceInSwat
Imran khan believes that Pakistani women doing their jobs which entails being in crowds will get harassed. What a shameful shameful statement. Shocking that so many young women who go through harassment everyday support this man and his misogyny.
Yes the Islamabad march was leftist, it was not liberal,it didn’t just talk about the individual rights of women & also women as private property. It was anti capitalist &this was a decision made by the organisers. Our politics anti capitalist and our feminism is anti capitalist!
Despite not liking Imran Khan and his politics, this image does not bring me any joy as a citizen of Pakistan. If the generals and army is the ONLY redline in this country, we are doomed as a nation.
Today it is him, yesterday was someone else & tomorrow another civilian leader
Beautiful scenes at Punjab university right now. Punjabi, Pashtun, Seraiki, Gilgiti students come out in huge numbers to protest Jamiat attack on Baloch students.
Such scenes of courage and unity offer a glimpse of a more inclusive and democratic Pakistan.
#NoFear
#StudentPower
A mother from Dera Ismail Khan sharing the miserable conditions they are in due to monsoon rains.
Please do whatever you can - protest, contributing funds/medicines/rations, write to your representatives, call them, setup medical camps in affected areas.
The woman being harassed in this video is my phuphoo who has been working hard to bring about changes and ban plastic bags in the federal capital along with other measures. She is DG EPA, she was met with this treatment at savour foods! Shame!!!
پلاسٹک تھیلوں کے خلاف پابندی پر عملدرآمد نہ ہونے پر ڈائریکٹر جنرل پاکستان ماحولیاتی تحفظ ایجنسی,فرزانہ الطاف جب اپنے عملے کے ہمراہ اسلام آباد کے معروف ہوٹل"سیور" پہنچیں تو ہوٹل انتظامیہ نے ان کے عملہ کے ساتھ انتہائی ناروا سلوک اپناتے ہوئے انہیں دھکے دیکر باہر
#BoycottSavourFoods
It’s not a joke to lose your home and seeing it bulldozed infront of your eyes. No regime has taken housing as a priority but during the current regime from Karachi to Islamabad we are seeing displacements & demolitions of homes. Shame on PPP,PTI and all those who have done this!
#Imrankhan
sahab kehtay hay, gurbath ki shara
#Pakistan
mai nechay jarahy hay. Haqiqathan, yeh ghareebon ki chaath unsay cheen kar, unko darbadar kar kay, ghareebon ko mitta kar ghurbath mittanay kay mansoobay ka natija hay.
@StopEvictionKHI
in all of this I feel bad for the young people who actually believed in Imran Khan and PTI. They deserved a better leader and a much much better politics!
So I want to work on a Pakistani women’s podcast/discussion series because I know too many intelligent smart women and is increasingly feeling like NOBODY gives them the time online they deserve!! Will you interested in watching/being on it?
My mother is a creative person. During the pandemic, she was home because there was no work. She took up the mandala art and here’s how much work she puts in her work despite having an injured shoulder with limited functionality ❤️🌹
All those arrested have been presented in the courts. We protested in silence without a word. We stood and watched our comrades stand tall with dignity and commitment to their politics - the politics of people and resistance.
#ReleaseIslamabadProtestors
The ONLY hospital in Islamabad where most working class people go for care is PIMS which is being privatised under the MTI ordinance. The issue of PIMS privatisation affects everyone in Islamabad especially the working people. We must stand in solidarity with PIMS employees!
We are raising funds for flood affectees in Balochistan, Sindh, Seraiki Waseb, Gilgit-Baltistan and various other affected areas. People have lost loved ones, cattle, crops, homes and all their possessions. This is a climate emergency please reach out if you want to support!
Just received a message in a family group to avoid wearing black so we can’t be easily identified so as a citizen I’m insecure because I’m a woman, a Shia, a political worker of the left, and a feminist organiser.
Really feels great to be a Pakistani right now.
Green chillies cost 200 rupees a kilo, tomatoes cost 300 rupees and onions at 150 rupees. Dont know how people are surviving but I get mini heart attacks every time I do grocery.
So difficult to look at these young faces, who were dying to live.. who took on this life threatening journey to find a livelihood…
Shame on all those responsible at home & across the seas who are responsible for their deaths.
Tomato prices risen to PKR 500/kg and onions PKR 300/kg, this is why regional cooperation is so important.
The inflation is already sky-rocketing and now this. This is an alarming situation!
We have two demands and we want them NOW
#lockdownpakistan
and
#BasicIncomeNOW
Don’t try to make it lockdown v/s the poor equation. The poor will suffer if the disease spread to high density population areas like slums. There is NO WATER there. Wake up! Lockdown & provide income
So the PTI trolls are back it again. Non-stop abuse & slander going on, apparently I’m on opposition’s payroll.
While you’re at it can you all tell me where can I collect my pay cheque? I’ll need it in the economy Imran Khan left behind after his excellent dealings with IMF.
This woman from Swat made thousands cry today.She narrated her story of pain & trauma.Her husband has been missing for yrs & she takes care of her 5 children,2have cancer.She talked of how patriarchy is making it difficult for her to be a single mother
#PashtunLongMarch2Peshawar
I have protested and demonstrated countless times in this city but never have I seen so many people from the city coming out for a cause. The women of Islamabad you were wonderful yesterday. Anyone who wants to continue building & organising. Get in touch!
Uff uff too many feels seeing these lovely people organising for
#StudentSolidarityMarch
in
#Lahore
. The march will take place in various cities across the country on 29th November
Despite being on the roads for over 4 days, their spirits are high. Here’s a video of their inspiring and charged slogans for their right to dignified work.
The police took away their sound system last night & now they’re using a notebook to amplify their voices.
I find it so strange when women want to reduce women’s role in politics. I am a woman, a feminist organiser as well as a leftist organiser. You cannot tell me to JUST keep my words limited to “women’s issues”
The day Ashura and Muharram is the only ritual where women are equally present on the streets, in the public space. There’s so much pain but also the resistance, that makes it so beautiful.
Salaam to Bibi Zainab for making it possible for all us women through her lone struggle!
The rising anti-feminist & anti-gender movement in Pakistan is going completely unnoticed.
It’s not just one law or one act, for almost 3 years we are seeing various rightwing & other forces coming together for anti-feminist politics.
The wait is over
#ZindagiTamasha
will be releasing on YouTube 4th of August.
There will also be an option to pay for the ticket and I hope those of us who can, will pay and support the Pakistani filmmakers especially Sarmad Khoosat - one of the best we have got!
Asma Jahangir left a void which hasn’t been filled and can’t ever. I miss listening to her roar in their faces. I wonder what she would have said and she would’ve said loud and clear in these times. Some people truly are irreplaceable.
Her book on Jinnah was also banned in Pakistan and even when it was released, much of it was censored. A ban was imposed on her public speeches. When she contested against Ayub Khan she won from Dhaka & Karachi(?). Let’s not forget she was also branded a foreign agent.
Nargis is a bloody queen. I grew up watching Nargis & Deedar exhibiting body positivity & brilliance through & through. She’s been tortured, harassed & exploited so much throughout her life but she’s a hard working woman who laboured her entire life. I met her once & was in awe
Nargis, who is actually a face of Pakistan’s low-class, third-grade theater shows and later as a C-grade film actress, criticized popular Turkish star
@esbilgic
. According to her: "Herself has ‘more to offer’ than
#EsraBilgic
"