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'My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music' Vladimir Nabokov

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fatima bhutto
1 year
جیل سے کون ڈرتا ہے جان دینے کیلئے تیار ہے
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Yesterday, Graham and I married in a small nikkah ceremony in my family home, 70 Clifton.
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3 months
Sickening, dancing over the graves of tens of thousands of children
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Israeli government ministers dance at a conference planning illegal Israeli settlements in Gaza. So far, I have spotted the ministers of communication, national security, and heritage, at least.
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Five years ago, Aitzaz Hasan Bangash gave his life as a 15 year old schoolboy, embracing a suicide bomber with his own body so his classmates could live. There is no truer hero of that dark period of Pakistan’s history.
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2 years
Shocked to hear about the attack on Imran Khan and frightened to see the history of violence in Pakistani politics play out in this familiar way.
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5 years
There is nothing uglier than people cheering for war.
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7 months
This is sickening, @CNN . You know very well a rocket cannot be the cause of this. You know that because even laypeople know that any rocket Hamas has doesn't have the capacity to kill 500 ppl. This is an Israeli warcrime and it's becoming unbearable watching you give cover for…
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"It certainly could have been a Hamas misfire..." CNN reports seeks to cover for Israeli war crime of bombing the Baptist hospital in Gaza sheltering displaced people.
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All the wickets in hand, winning by ten overs, lethal bowling, whatever they say that’s why Pakistan is the only country not invited to play in the IPL. Because we’re the best in the format. In the world. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk, I’ll be here all week.
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3 years
On his birthday, on every birthday, and everyday, I miss my father more than I can say ❤️
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2 years
Twenty six years ago, my father and six of his colleagues and comrades were murdered outside our home while we were inside. In the years since, my memories of that night have only become stronger and my patience infinite.
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7 years
Why won't Pakistan, the only country on earth specifically created as a refuge for Muslims, open its doors to the Rohingyas?
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2 years
I’ve always been a critic of Imran Khans politics and often wrote that he would damage PK’s institutions with his opportunism & expediency so I say this with absolutely no feeling for his term or tenure: “purana” Pakistan was squalid. No one can celebrate its return in good faith
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Happy birthday to my darling father, a man who traveled through life kindly and justly, forever moved by love for his country, its people, and all those beings deprived of shelter and care. He would have been 64 today. How lucky I was to have him.
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5 years
As a daughter, Asif Zardari's arrest means nothing to me. It does not bring back my beloved father, who I watched die in front of me.
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2 years
Today would have been my fathers 68th birthday. I miss him always and am so grateful to have known the world first through his eyes. He was filled with hope and kindness, there was always music around him, and he loved my brother and I with a large open heart.
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2 years
It's quite telling that no matter the government or dispensation, the police officers accused in my father's assassination are continually promoted to higher and higher posts. Bloody hands can never be wiped clean, people remember. The words are written down, the deed, the date.
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1 year
Ready for the finals
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7 months
Don’t waste time with Israel’s preposterous claim that they didn’t bomb the Al Ahli hospital. They did. They’ve been bombing medical facilities all week, promised to flatten Gaza & are the ONLY ONES with the weapons capacity to kill 1,000 people in a go. This is a strategy to…
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It makes me feel very proud to see how humane, calm and mature Pakistanis have been over the past few days. It is an obligation and a duty to seek brotherhood over war.
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6 years
Every year, no matter the year and no matter how much time has passed, September is my father’s month
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4 years
Happy birthday to my father. He taught me just how beautiful and wondrous the world is. He would have been 66 today.
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6 years
Though they killed my beloved father two days after he turned 42, every year on this anniversary I am reminded of the undiminished power of love above all.
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2 years
The purest hearts are the bravest. Shaheed Aitzaz Hasan Bangash died to protect his school from a suicide bombing. He was just a boy when he held the bomber in his arms and absorbed the detonation. What can we do but remember him always and carry him in our hearts?
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5 years
Please note there are many Pakistani voices calling for the Indian airforce pilot in custody to be treated with dignity.
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7 months
Call it what it is: a genocide. Call Israel by its name: an apartheid state.
@Malala
Malala Yousafzai
7 months
I’m horrified to see the bombing of al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza and unequivocally condemn it. I urge the Israeli government to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza and reiterate the call for a ceasefire. I am directing $300K to three charities helping Palestinian people under attack.
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4 years
If monsoons happen EVERY single year at the SAME time, what possible excuse can the government have for never being prepared?
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4 years
There is no hero except Ali; there is no sword except Zulfikar
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6 years
In life, I was born luckiest of all to have the father I did. He was my whole family: my mother, father and best friend and it is his love that sustains me. Happy father’s day to the man who opened my eyes to all the joy and beauty of the world.
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7 months
“If Israel gets away with this more hospitals will be targeted and more war crimes committed”
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3 years
Shaheed Aitzaz Hasan Bangash stopped a suicide bomber from entering his school. He was 15 when he gave his life to save 2,000 students. Pakistan has not protected his family from threats and we have failed to honour him and his sacrifice. His courage and love makes me weep.
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My last cricket thought of the evening is that even when we lose matches, Pakistani fans have a sense of humour about things and a kind of elan. I'm horrified by the vile abuse heaped on Mohammad Shami by his compatriots. The rot of hatred seems to have infected everywhere there
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7 months
This is an advance warning of the genocide that Israel is planning to commit. Gazans cannot leave, they are blockaded by sea and under a land siege, they cannot cross the border into Egypt. To bombard an occupied population with no ability to flee is a war crime
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Mohammed El-Kurd
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Netanyahu telling Palestinians in Gaza to “leave now,” because he’s about to bombard the besieged Strip, as if they can do anything to leave that open-air prison which is Gaza
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5 years
My beautiful grandmother, Nusrat, has always defined grace for me #SariTwitter
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6 months
Why is Azerbaijan, a predominantly Muslim country, supplying Israel with oil? Why is Kazakhstan? There should be an oil embargo immediately. No Western country will stop this bloodthirsty genocide against a displaced people. The rest of the world should show some spine.
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3 years
25 years ago, my father was killed outside our home. I will always remember him as a man who lived on this earth unafraid. His life was a gift to me, I will always be eternally grateful for him. We have had no justice but love is a justice. It lives forever, it forgets nothing❤️
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6 years
I hope France never says an unkind word about immigrants ever again
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6 years
18 years today since the IDF killed Mohammad al Durra as his father tried to shield him with his body
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On September 20,1996 my father & 6 comrades were murdered outside our home and left to bleed to death on the street. Their state & police killers were never brought to justice. To know why Murtaza Bhutto was so dangerous to a corrupt, craven system, one only has to hear him speak
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Pakistan and it’s people should be proud of acting with dignity in the fog of war.
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5 years
BREAKING: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan says Pakistan will release the captured Indian air force pilot tomorrow.
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Zelensky’s hypocrisy is mind bending. Ukrainians can resist Russia who breached their borders 1 year ago but Palestinians cannot resist 75 years of Israeli occupation and subjugation?
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський
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Horrible news from Israel. My condolences go out to everyone who lost relatives or close ones in the terrorist attack. We have faith that order will be restored and terrorists will be defeated. Terror should have no place in the world, because it is always a crime, not just…
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2 years
What a team 🇵🇰
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4 years
Thinking of my grandmother on her death anniversary. She led a movement against a brutal dictator, was repeatedly arrested, beaten and threatened. She was the bravest, most graceful woman I’ve ever known ❤️
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3 years
(Has anyone told her about Kashmir?)
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If you can’t take a moral stand on this colossal injustice as it plays out in real time - I’ve been watching Palestinians with rocks in their palms getting shot in the head by Israeli soldiers since I was child- then you’re on the wrong side of history. And I hope your career was…
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This is corruption in practice. This is a government boys school, Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto govt school in Sajawal, Sindh. (It’s named after my great grandfather but is supposed to be run by the local government). It’s been shut for 12 years. 12 years.
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My brother Zulfikar tied our grandmother’s imam zamin on me and the ceremony was conducted in my grandfather’s libraries, one of my most beloved places on earth. Behind us were my aunts, uncle and father’s childhood photos and an original People’s Party flag placed by my…
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40 years ago my grandfather, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was assassinated by the Pakistani state. Today, those with no love or fidelity for his politics will give speeches in his honour. The handmaidens of his death will lay petals on his grave.
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7 months
Absolutely shameful.
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5 years
I missed the smell of the earth here. To be in Larkana, is to be returned home
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Today my father would have turned 65. He taught me everything I know about courage, friendship, loyalty and love. When he was killed, he was 5 years older than I am today. When I was little, I saw him as a giant amongst men. The more I live, the more I know this to be true.
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2 years
We live to dream another day. Well done team Pakistan, you played like heroes
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1 year
We won’t be having any other ceremonies, I’m not one for opulent weddings but especially now it feels so inappropriate given what so many are struggling through. I missed my darling father tremendously, but he was with us. I felt him in my heart and among us as everyone present…
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4 years
The best protest sign I’ve ever seen
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3 years
If nothing else, Israel's ferocious violence has exposed the West as morally bankrupt. If televised ethnic cleansing and press towers being blown up isn't worthy of European condemnation, Europe has no role in the coming century.
@vonderleyen
Ursula von der Leyen
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Very concerned by the situation in Israel and Gaza. I condemn indiscriminate attacks by Hamas on Israel. Civilians on all sides must be protected. Violence must end now.
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5 years
Al Murtaza is a home of many family portraits. This is the photo my father kept of his father when I was growing up
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6 years
Haitham Jamal was 14. He was murdered in Gaza today
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3 years
Every video, every glance of a child terrorised by a soldier with a machine gun, is a reminder of the occupation’s everyday brutality and casual venality
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Sa’eed Jiddan
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So confusing I can’t tell who’s the colonizer
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5 years
I have never seen a war played out between two nuclear armed nations with twitter accounts.
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2 years
Very sorry to hear of Bilquis Edhi’s passing, she served Pakistan’s poor and abandoned with great spirit her entire life
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Bollywood is a craven industry. To see its stars dolled up to celebrate the destruction of the Babri Masjid and clicking selfies to cheer the hateful politics of the BJP is sickening
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5 years
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2 years
I did not write an article in support of the Prime Minister. I did not write a facebook post. Whoever keeps using my name to speak on this issue has an incredible amount of time on their hands and absolutely no idea what I think about the PM, his opponents, politics etc.
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2 years
Five years ago shaheed Mashal Khan was lynched. “He was the kind of a person this society can never tolerate,” his father said. “You can call him a revolutionary, reformist, humanist, whatever, but he wasn’t a conservative person. My son was a voice of the voiceless.”
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7 months
Happy to lose cricket games till the end of time if the alternative is being publicly cheered by a genocidal state that murdered 724 children in 7 days.
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Israel
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We were really moved by Indian friends showing their solidarity with Israel 🇮🇱 We are happy that India🇮🇳emerged victorious in the #INDvsPAK match at #CWC23 and that Pakistan was unable to attribute its victory to the terrorists of #Hamas .
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While assaulting a woman at Minar e Pakistan, the hundreds of men involved filmed themselves. Thanks to to the abundance of video evidence, can we expect over 400 arrests to be made in Lahore without delay? @PunjabPoliceCPO
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7 months
Bravo London ❤️
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Husam Zomlot
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London now!
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Two years ago, Shaheed Mashal Khan was brutally killed. Many who lynched him still walk free today. But our hearts are with Mashal always because the brave and defiant are never forgotten
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Colombia and Chile have recalled their ambassadors from Israel. Bolivia has cut diplomatic ties. UAE, Turkey, Bahrain: What are you waiting for? All the Muslim world is watching you.
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4 years
The world over, today anyone with a feeling for justice and decency, remembers our brothers and sisters in Kashmir.
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7 months
He is extraordinary. And it’s is terrifying that the world is seeing this and sanctioning it
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7 years
Sometimes Pakistan is exactly as you hoped and dreamed
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1 year
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@TehminaDurrani
Tehmina Durrani
1 year
Fatima Bhutto & Gibran’s marriage is an important msg of SIMPLICITY for the entire nation. The example set in ZAB’s historic library at 70 Clifton must become the new trend. 🤲Ameen
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There are no words in any language for this level of cruelty
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3 years
Cricket Twitter might be the only good side of Twitter
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7 months
The images of these babies will haunt me forever. these are the victims of Israel's genocidal campaign against Gaza and the victims of Europe, UK, and the US's deranged support for the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians
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4 years
Shaheed Mashal Khan For the brave and defiant are never forgotten
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5 years
The heart hurts reading the news from Kashmir.
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Israel is a criminal state.
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If you’re talking about women’s rights in Iran right now but silent about the thousands of women in Gaza being murdered by Israeli carpet bombing, please unfollow me right now. Feminism isn’t selective and it isn’t only for women you like because you have orientalist, racist…
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I cannot see Shaheed Aitzaz Hasan Bangash’s picture without wanting to cry. In 2014, he stopped a suicide bomber from entering his school, sacrificing his own life and giving his body to the ever after. Pakistan owes his family a debt of love and care forever ❤️
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Happy birthday to my brave brother, @BhuttoZulfikar . He’s always had the courage to be who he is in a world where most of us are riddled with fear and I learn from him all the time
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Wait for the firefly ...
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But ask white feminists who were cutting their hair for Iran where they stand on the genocide and Gaza and it’s a very awkward silence
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4 years
I’ve always loved this picture of my father. On the 24th anniversary of his death I think of him as he was then, happy in his beloved country, with his people, moving through those turbulent times guided as always by feelings of great love
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God bless Shaheed Aitzaz Hasan on his death anniversary. I was so moved by his sacrifice and bravery, I dedicated my book to him
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God bless Shaheed Aitzaz Hasan Bangash. A Pakistani hero who I will hold forever in my heart
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5 years
I pray for peace for India and Pakistan.
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2 years
The global south will not survive this century without climate justice. You in the west are talking about paper straws, we in the global south are talking about reparations. My latest for @guardian :
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3 years
This cannot, no matter how expansive your dictionary, be classified as “self-defence”. It is terror and is par for the course for Israel.
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Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸
3 years
This is pure terrorism! #Gaza
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3 years
When a reporter doesn’t know the difference between “God is Great” (what the men are saying) and “death to America” (which no one is saying) then she should stay home. I am so sick and tired of western mediocrity drowning everyones voices out so they can spout this utter drivel
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5 years
As critical as I have long been of PM Khan, this is the only moral stance to take. We do not want war. We don't want more violence to hurt either Pakistanis or Indians.
@geonews_english
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PM Imran again invites India for talks, says better sense should prevail
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4 years
Thirty five years ago, my brave uncle Shah was taken from us. He lived too short a life on Earth, but he’s never left those of us who love him. Here he is with my father in Larkana when they were young men. Their bond was beautiful and unbreakable.
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3 years
All weekend I was thinking about Joonam, my brave and beautiful grandmother. As I get older I only miss her more and more and wish I still had her guidance. Today she would have been 92 ❤️
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4 years
Congratulations to @daryasin , Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand for winning the 2020 Pulitzer for photography with their heart-striking images from Kashmir
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3 years
WORLD'S BEST GAME, 2023 HERE WE COME 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
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4 years
It’s revealing+damning that the Sindh govt would name the Police Training College Saeedabad after Shahid Hayat, a police officer charged w/ the murder of my father,Murtaza Bhutto. I’ve never forgotten their complicity with my father’s killers. A monument will remind everyone else
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