Huma Baqai Profile
Huma Baqai

@_baqai

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PhD in international relations, Rector MiTE and a boring professor

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Joined May 2013
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Huma Baqai
2 years
Back off, back off now , work with him not against him … it will back fire , let’s not go against the will of the people … it never works
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If karachi was a wake up call, Lahore is a warning … Don’t mess with the sentiment of this country’s people … let this pressure get released … the only way forward is immediate elections … attempts at manipulation will back fire and back fire bad …
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if what happened to Mr. Swati’s wife is true , my head hangs in shame , that I belong to a country that has the audacity to call it’s self the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and can do this ….
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The Peshawar jalsa is indicative of a trend that will not stop … thus it must be addressed if we don’t want the country to get more polarised , IKs narrative is getting stronger by the day
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It is interesting how conveniently, the intellectual elite of Pakistan discounts support for IK as an uninformed , reactive, middle class phenomenon , and is in complete sync with the elite capture of politics and Pakistan … not ready to see the obvious
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Not an IK fan , but amazed at the panic , anxiety and acts of desperation the man is able to trigger in opposition camps …
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4 months
No celebrations in the heart of Punjab , No celebrations in Karachi , Protest across Pakistan … , just protests … beware and do not trivialise show of resentment , respond with course corrections, and not suppression and oppression …. back off you have lost the game
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2 years
Pakistans Educational Poverty is alarming
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2 years
The final verdict is that of history, let’s wait for that
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Huma Baqai
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In the 1990s, Singapore’s leader Lee Kwan Yew visited Pakistan. On his way out, he was asked his opinion of us. He replied: ‘I have never seen a country so determined to commit suicide.’…. proven right unfortunately
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Manikas interview on Geo , why stoop so low … who will buy this … who is selling this .. Circustan it is
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2 years
Umra party / family reunion / political gratification, at our own expense twist came post media out rage and commercial flight is a spin all the way , PIA does not operate intercity in KSA …. Check their itinerary… you can’t fool all the people all the time
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My appreciation of IK’s speech is drawing mixed reactions , fair enough but please at least when this man stands up or in this case sits down and speaks on international forums he makes Pakistan Proud
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let’s accept the writing on the wall, let’s bow to the will of the people … for once stop manipulating more , enough is enough ..
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شرم تمکومگرنہئ آتیPML N MQM
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11 months
Finally , Alhamdollilha
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Huma Baqai
4 years
IK comes across as a global leader , with a global vision, raising the issue of money laundering and the role of the rich countries in both protecting it and promoting it , climate change , pandemic , Hindytuva , two state solutions for Palestine you name it
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Huma Baqai
5 months
what a sad day , i feel sorry for the people of my country, they came out and they voted with hope and the delay in the announcement of results is indicative of the fact that it doesn’t really matter that they voted , for no body cares nor respects the verdict of the people …
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Huma Baqai
4 years
Murad Saeed in KPK , Chohan in Punjab and Vadva in Karachi .....PTI who needs enemies with friends like these .
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Huma Baqai
1 year
My head hangs in shame , i don’t even want to call it Circustan any more , we are a shameless , exploitative elite , behaving like worst than vulture hovering over the dying carcass of this country … and my head hangs in shame …. because i am party to this ….
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Huma Baqai
5 months
The verdict on 🇵🇰elections is now global , nothing worked … PTI is a political reality ,perhaps also the political face of 🇵🇰, the people have spoken , back off gracefully for once , the state can’t afford more experiments ….
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2 years
History  will definitely verdict IK , but for now , it’s one versus the rest and he is standing his ground , every thing done to bring him down strengthens and emboldens him even more, he has check mated the government and the establishment
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2 years
the most amazing coverage angle is that of Geo , sooooo toxic it’s not even funny
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Over exposure is killing the interim PM , he should just stay put , every time he speaks he has his foot in his mouth .. he is an embarrassment , don’t we have to deal with enough , why this …
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Huma Baqai
1 year
Took us 75 years to recognise and celebrate a women who was the face of Pakistani women , of course after we had dragged her name and reputation in the streets of Pakistan first … Rs. 75 commemorative bank note unveiled on Monday 3rd july 2023
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Huma Baqai
2 years
Interesting PPP and MQM both are not taking ministries, so let’s be on the winning side without responsibility or accountability , and PML N under huge pressure to accommodate , do the unpopular reforms both economic and political and bear the burnt , face the music
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Huma Baqai
6 months
Dear custodians of coridors of power , snap out , it’s not the eighties and nineties any more , you stand exposed , the tactics that worked then are obsolete now…. the King has no clothes on is now a every day reality not rare phenomenon be it Gaza , be it Islamabad
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Huma Baqai
1 year
Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones , read PML N , frustration has pushed the party on the slippery slope of self destruction , it’s a pity a mature political party with so much political wisdom has to come to an end so ingloriously , which seems imminent now
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2 years
Dear PPP and PML N …people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
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2 years
IK’s disqualification may back fire bad, if any thing it strengthens him more and is seen by many as an act of desperation
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2 years
no amount of fancy adds with good looking expensive models , telling me How great sindh government is will help , change the reality on the ground not in the media, karachi is an urban hell
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1 year
when Governments use excessive force against its own people , manipulates institutions to distort information , create false narratives to victimise censers visibility … its both frustrated and desperate and is loosing the battle …
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Huma Baqai
5 months
Salute to Bilawal Bhuttos mature response to hyper anchors , PPP has emerged as the king maker party yet once again , and he has had the maturity to be able to handle it really well
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Huma Baqai
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The election/rejection saga , it’s bordering on stupidity now , the pre election anxiety is now so obvious that they are doing acts of desperation that will completely deprive the elections of any credibility and the circus in 🇵🇰is in full swing the joke is on us the people of 🇵🇰
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Huma Baqai
1 year
I was invited by two Indian media houses to discuss the political situation in Pakistan , walked out from both of them , they don’t want a discussion , they want to use this opportunity to bash and insult Pakistan . They have foregone conclusions about a developing story
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Huma Baqai
2 years
post the hype of IK’s Lahore success, it’s easy to see that it was a very carefully choreographed speech, olive branch both to the establishment and the 🇺🇸, plan for a marathon public contact campaign and enforcement of his anti corruption stance …his story sells
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2 years
interestingly the PM has disowned the increase in petroleum prices by staging a walkout from the meeting , who is in charge , walk outs are oppositions prerogative… WHAT
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1 year
we are very funny people , a full fledged operation took place , a politicians house was raided , all norms were violated , but no body seems to know who ordered it , the joke is on us , circustan it is indeed …
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Karachi jalsa was larger and more passionate than Peshawar.the city that was supposedly neglected by PTI gave an unprecedented welcome to IK,if Lahore surpasses both , some rethinking is bound to happen , should happen
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Huma Baqai
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Passengers coming to Karachi who tested positive for Delta virus hoodwinked authorities and escaped confinement to mingle , on top of that 14 Delta infected passangers were released post calls from high ups … entire Karachi pays the cost of neglect and the toxic VIP culture
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Huma Baqai
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The kind of media coverage Shah Mahmood Qureshi and his daughter is getting of his maltreatment in main stream media is uncharacteristic of the present scheme of things , some thing is amiss , it’s by design , are we seeing a managed / selective come back of PTI
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2 years
Umra party: family reunion and political gratification …all conveniently at state expense
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11 months
As much as I want to refrain from making political comments , I am aghast at the situation , i have now reconciled to the elite capture and subsequent exploitation of the people of this Pakistan , but please 🙏 Stop dishing out humiliation by constantly insulting our intellect
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The world’s fifth most populous country has only $4.6 billion in foreign reserves—$20 per citizen. “If they default, and they can’t get oil, companies go bust, and people don’t have jobs, you would say this is a country ripe for a Bolshevik revolution,” says Cameron Munter
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Zaman Park, the responsible have turned Pakistan into a laughing stock and a waring zone .BBC , Al Jazeera, Craig Murray , Zalmi Khalilzad,this government is all set to bring down the state for narrow vested interest, people outside ZP are our own , Beware of history’s verdict
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Huma Baqai
4 months
Stop insulting the intellect of the people , they aced pre poll rigging , with out a blink , poll management failed miserably , esp the drama see some of our stalwarts have lost How do you explain Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman JI and Pir Pagara GDA statement .Back off for the sake of 🇵🇰
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Huma Baqai
2 years
The crowds on the streets of Pakistan right now , just over a verbal call should be a wake up call for many … shame on all of us
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2 years
The heaviest verdict is that of history, we as people have neither recovered nor learnt from the fall of Dacca or the judicial murder of ZAB , I wonder if we are on our third blunder … but then those at the helm of affsirs are history blind 🙏
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IK hitting where it hurts , a counter narrative is just not jellying in , in fact there is no counter narrative , at best a very poor defensive stance ,coalition on the back foot like never before
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2 years
Dear Finance minister , you may think it’s magnanimous on your part to make ecnomic blunders and then apologise on media , but seriously the economy of Pakistan can NOT afford this hit and miss strategy of ecnomic governance …. now he says fixed tax was a mistake..
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Isn’t it ironic , Arshed Sharifs programme was titled “POWER PLAY” , his elimination is power play indeed … message is simple shut up or you’ll be shut down
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Huma Baqai
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watched local media after ages , when did we become North Korea 🧐
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1 year
listen carefully to the silence , it’s deafening ,what now …surrender of the population should not be on the cards, what have you done to win them over …
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Huma Baqai
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Nawaz group wants to play the legal battle via the media , because their defence won't stand in the court of law
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Huma Baqai
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12 hours since , polling ended … Results still awaited … The delay only makes the situation more precarious …. acceptance of results will be difficult and more over complete silence of the PML N camp over the delay is not without meaning …
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Huma Baqai
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If IK was to hire a TOP political marketing strategist firm for his promotion and reach , they could not have out performed Punjab government/ PML N in promoting him both nationally and Internationally…. Seriously who is the brain behind this self defeating madness ….
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The biggest casualty of the power struggle in 🇵🇰is the rule of law and normalisation of brute , unapologetic use of power to get whatever … it’s now much bigger than a political struggle between parties
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1 year
some nations learn from their mistakes and blunders we in Pakistan recycle them , history may not repeat itself but it rhymes…
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2 years
Blatant interference in the internal matters of Pakistan …. Not a conspiracy 🤭
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1 year
In all honesty IMF is finally asking us to do what we should have done a long time ago and could not because of selfish elite capture of power , personal stakes and rampant corruption our power elite are worst than vultures and still not done
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Ayesha it's a pity , you disgraced all of us women
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Huma Baqai
2 years
Pakistan is on to selling family silver , while the corrupt survive and thrive and of course go scot free … my country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan
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Huma Baqai
1 year
opps
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Huma Baqai
2 years
Dear PM it’s good to know you want to be seen at samerkand , and pay respects to the queen and also speak at the UN , the dying , hungry and diseased of this country were never a priority any ways , the can wait or simply die of hunger and disease, your priorities are obvious
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a complete disconnect between how people perceive the situation and what is done to diffuse it ,some how it always back fires, a-times silence is golden …the ceremony could have ended with out generating yet another controversy
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1 year
wake up call
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2 years
Intervention YES, Undiplomatic language YES, Conspiracy NO
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Huma Baqai
5 months
Elections are 48 hours away in🇵🇰The silent vote , the sympathy vote , the anger vote , the anti every thing vote , the new vote …. To vote or not to vote … the futility to vote , but one must vote … circus it is 🤡🤹‍♀️🎠indeed
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1 year
lol
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2 years
After what is happening with senior journalist like Ayaz Amir and some others , what Wastullaha calls the new normal in Pakistan , I should actually be grateful for my unceremonious exit from Ptv , Mukalma … blessing in disguise . Thank you PTV Islamabad
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Back to square one , I don’t see people agreeing to ‘ No Conspiracy’ thrust when the use of ‘undiplomatic language’ and ‘blatant interference’ constructs stand endorsed … trying to make sense of things here… that’s what the debate was all about ,if interference is ok
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We can disagree on IK’s politics , Man sure is a crowd puller, recent events have turned him into a saviour, all his political blunders and poor governance stand forgotten , people see him as Pakistans only saviour
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The rising din of criticism of the decision on the 🏏is going to grow louder , the verdict can’t stand the test of history and will haunt those responsible … the cost will fall on 🇵🇰…,fractured democracy , fractured constitutionalism , fractured futures…. to defeat one man ..
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2 years
on a lighter note except Jamima , IK’s choice of women is quiet wacky
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7 years
Legal experts reject the accusations hurled by pml N ministers on JIT , just a lot of noise with no substance ... empty vessels
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Those in corridors of power and on decision making tables , seem to be completely in disconnect with the ground realities , which are creeping up and may actually bring down the powers of status quo. accommodate , adopt, and respond , reaction and confrontation may back fire
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2 years
Karachi gave its verdict , the second time today
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I see fancy iftar parties and even fancier promotion for Eid consumption , where as people die trying to get one bag of contaminated flour , children are being pulled out of schools and people doing two jobs on an average to put two meals on the tables …
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Those at the helm of affairs please get over IK and do something for the people of this country , in your desire to bring him down / do away with him Pakistan is losing out .. and it’s people literally dying , History will not forgive you … Enough
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Red zone gate crashing by madrasa brigade , terrible optics for Pakistan, what are we thinking , this will have repercussions …
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7 years
IK targeting PPP was not a good political strategy
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2 years
The country on the verge of default, Punjab political/ constitutional crises continues and PM rushes off to London after five weeks of being in the government , consultations on going into elections rather than prolonging the weak coalition government
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Dr. Miftha Ismail and Mr. Sahbar Zaidi , are two extremely competent technocrats who worked with opposed political camps and both went public with their frustration and inability to beat the mafias sitting inside and out side the governments
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Master Stroke FS , clean bowled MK and stumped the establishment
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who are we , why what the hell , for how long lies,deceit, manipulation and more lies is Pakistan really a criminal enterprise #ArshadShareefShaheed
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Huma Baqai
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مجھ کو اپنے بینک کی کتاب دیجئے // دیس کی تباہی کا حساب دیجئے // لوگ جو غریب تھے حقیر ہو گئے // آپ تو غریب سے امیر ہو گئے // یعنی کے حضور بے ضمیر ہو گئے // خود کو بے ضمیری کا خطاب دیجئے // دیس کی تباہی کا حساب دیجئے
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Zalmi khalilzad has to tell us the obvious to get out of the crises, hold elections by June,political parties should sit down for a dialogue to identify issues and who ever wins the mandate governs Pakistan …. wow circustan it is
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2 years
Is it just me or MQM’s tone is changing post karachi jalsa ….
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15 minute commute to creek area took me two hours , what a waste , and sheer neglect of this city , I and hundreds others were trying to get to work in this city of Qaiud that generates Maximum revenue for the country …
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Round three goes to the opposition , thank you MQM , but PTI is gearing up , fourth round should be interesting , the stakes just went up by several notches , is neutrality now an option ….
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Moonis Illahi kills the skepticism , best possible move by IK in the given circumstances
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Pakistan with this self inflicted political , constitutional and ecnomic crises is inches away from being declared a basket case and of course a laughing stock , circusistan it is and the joke is on the people of Pakistan …
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2 years
Pakistan is in a state of complete paralysis , with no one in control And the economic melt down is frightening
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1 year
The circus is reaching its climax … drop scene is imminent …
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Tosha khana back fire,is not an just an embarrassment for those involved , it’s rude awakening call for the people of Pakistan , not one politician who had access / opportunity to extract and exploit , choose not to do it My Circusistan, My sinking Pakistan in the hands of thugs
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2 years
IK you rock and the entire nation rocks with you … the coalition government is also rocked …
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Videos of name calling from Madina are indicative of a deeper malice that has inflicted our society/ polity and the ruling elite seem to be unaware of it , the polarisation is getting entrenched , Pakistan is at war with itself , inflicting damage and destruction upon its self…
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Dear PDM , think again , you can’t fool all the people all the time , the crowds should be a wake up call , and MQM what an absolute shame , Karachi was your city …
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why swim against the peoples tide , it’s counter productive and self defeating , Picking up Azam Swati is a reactive act, only strengthening him . his narrative and his party, the timing is every thing in politics and it’s more about smart power,than naked display of it perhaps
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