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writer of speculative fiction | currently working on education data & inquiry | SFF, histories, cities, pedagogies, technologies, critical theories | he/him

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Hamza

2 years

hello ppl i have a scifi short story published in this issue! it's about cybernetics in 2060 Lahore. pls 2 go read and share this alongwith the other wonderful stories published!

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Tasavvur 🔮is back!

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🔮the south asian in us just wants to call this the monsoon edition instead of summer/late summer, it just feels appropriate na? whatever you may call it, don't forget to read it! 🔮

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7 months

i don't think most people realize how harrowing and excruciating it is to touch the body of your dead parent (or family member) knowing that this is the moment of finality. that feeling stays with you as a painful thorn forever.

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‘let me kiss him’ son giving his father a final goodbye kiss after he was martyred by zionist bombardment. may we never know peace till Palestine is free

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2 years

i come from a dysfunctional family, but a dysfunctional family will not come from me. this curse ends with me.

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7 months

nehr o nehr Palestine will be free.

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8 months

Forget the Arab ruling classes, I am shocked at how the only nuclear 'Islamic' state, the self-styling Fortress of Islam, decided to discard the lives of 2.2 million Palestinians & instead focused on kicking out the Afghan refugees, another victim group of empire. Despicable.

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3 years

pakistan cricket did for my depression in two days what heavy doses of anti depressants and therapy and unhealthy coping mechanisms couldn't do in years

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2 years

you know the best part about this victory? two of pakistan's core strengths, Babar Azam and fast bowling, did not show up and yet we managed to beat India. that's the kind of collective effort i want.

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3 years

the best thing about living in Lahore is the guessing game. what's gonna get me first? dengue? smog? COVID-19? crime? bad food? low-quality humour?

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6 years

Ever wonder why Pakistan has a lack of great intellectuals? Thinkers and opinion-makers seem missing from our history. And yet, they definitely existed. On 14th August, let us remember a few of these brilliant minds our country neglected, ostracised and forgot. [A thread].

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5 years

Please tell me you all are also seeing what I am seeing?

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@AUThackeray @AshokChavanINC @AjitPawarSpeaks @sanket @supriya_sule Rose petals showered on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vehicle as he arrives at BJP headquarters in Delhi. #ResultsWithNDTV #MaharashtraAssemblyPolls #HaryanaAssemblyPolls #ElectionResults2019 More on

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2 years

that thing women do where they start tying their hair into a bun in the middle of a conversation?? how can such a small gesture be so fucking arresting????

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4 years

When Faiz said "aur bhi gham hain zamaane mein mohabbat ke siwa" he probably didn't realize how messed up the world would become where mohabbat ka ghum would actually be the least painful of all the tragedies we would have to face.

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2 years

I think we undercelebrate the fact that for many of us, the most significant achievement this year was that we held on. Despite everything, we kept going & at the end of the year, we're still here in this world, fighting it out in our own way. That's an achievement I'm proud of.

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1 year

"we regret to inform you" tou mat karo nah inform, chup chap opportunity de do takey regret ho hi nah.

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2 years

urban flooding is not a natural event, it is unquestionably a policy failure.

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2 years

my hot take on mother's day is to stop idealizing mothers as angels incarnate and instead try to see them as actual flawed human beings capable of making big mistakes and poor choices.

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7 months

you may forget their voice, their face, their gait. but you never forgot the moment you touched their lifeless body and there was no response from them. you never forget the utterly indescribable feeling of having to accept that your person is gone.

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Hamza

3 years

having a bad mental health in college is so costly in the future cos how i do convince grad schools & employers that i have potential and that blot on my transcript is just from the time when i was completely isolated and barely holding on. it never works. that mark is permanent.

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2 years

for the longest time, i used to think that hope was the easier choice in comparison to cynicism and skepticism. but i was wrong. hope is difficult. hope is radical. hope requires immense belief. and i'd rather choose hope over everything else.

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7 years

Tendulkar was right there at Oval. He saw it all. Still couldn't bring himself to congratulate Pakistan. Kohli is way way superior to him.

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4 years

Prince Charles testing positive for Coronavirus has really lightened up my mother's mood. According to her "us ko tau khas tor par hona chahiye tha" Strong Diana stan energy here.

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3 years

now that i've had time to process, i am fully convinced that the Pakistan cricket team is on a sports anime protagonist arc where before a huge victory, there is an equally sad heartbreak that is necessary for character building. trust me.

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3 years

IBA🤝LUMS = protecting harassers and overcharging students

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5 years

Lahore is a dysfunctional 'city'. But it has no excuse to be this way. Unlike Karachi or others, it isn't an orphan city. It has been coveted by everyone & has always been the crown jewel of Punjab & Pakistan. Yet, it fails. Here's one specific reason that I want to discuss:

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Hamza

4 years

If I had a dollar for every time someone told me to pursue CSS because "ap ki English or General Knowledge buhat achi hai" I would've gained enough wealth to actually buy-out this whole country and abolish the outdated bureaucratic system altogether.

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Hamza

4 years

establishment writing Pak Studies texts:

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greg 🪐

4 years

Bear saves fish from drowning. Nature really is amazing

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2 years

current state of my personal statement for grad school:

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Hamza

4 years

being raised in a loud and argumentative home means a lot of unlearning in your spoken communication. for a long time, i used to say stuff in a tone that sounded perfectly gentle and normal in my head but came across as unnecessarily rude and harsh to others.

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4 years

Personally think the DD/MM/YYYY rule is better than the stupid MM/DD/YYYY one for writing out dates.

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4 years

Me, with my extremely low standards, when someone does something nice for me:

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Hamza

3 years

in a year of heartbreaks and trials, i've realized that every new heartbreak doesn't make you stronger or more resilient. if anything, a fresh one not only causes pain but also hits your old wounds, even those you had long forgotten. grief is powerful.

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3 years

don't let American clownery make you forget about the genocides happening inside your country please.

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Hamza

2 years

in the end, this was Sri Lanka's magical tournament story and we were just secondary characters.

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Hamza

3 years

my professional advice to the people far younger than me: guiz please make sure that you know what you want and more importantly, try to get born into a rich family cos that's unmatchable in terms of advantage.

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6 months

Babar Azam's crime is not the WC, it's that he nearly managed to unionize his players for a fair share of revenue and other player rights in a country like Pakistan. He failed but he did set a precedent and that will count when in the future another brave captain arrives.

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4 years

No one: People who live in elite gated communities and have no sense of how inequality works in an urban setting across all levels:

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5 years

No one: Desi mothers during royal couple's visit: Ye Kate pyari hai but Princess Diana wali baat nahi hai is mein

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2 years

if i lived in a city where i could daily go to the beach or the mountains for half an hour of quiet contemplation, the quality of my life would dramatically improve.

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3 years

normalize reading books and still being clueless af

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Hamza

4 years

Kinda sad the world is ending without so many of us (but mainly me) having ever experienced a long-term, genuinely reciprocated loving relationship of our choice. Nothing but unfairness.

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3 years

the masculine urge to get one good picture and use it as your display on all apps for the next 50 years

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2 years

losing a direct family member early in your life is weird cos with time you learn to live with their absence but every once in a while you realize how normal families function and how dysfunctional yours is because of that loss.

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2 years

my expert take on the current crisis

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Hamza

8 months

while we try to make sense of what's happening in Gaza, it is also important to talk about the fact that this horrible Pakistani regime is deporting and kicking out refugees ruthlessly. Aghan refugees, to be specific. it is nothing less than a crime.

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4 years

A lot of Pakistanis love quoting Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy without noting the irony that if either one of these thinkers were citizens of this country, they would've been jailed, silenced, or exiled long ago and you'd be calling them anti-nationalist, pseudo-liberals.

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Hamza

2 years

for a country with a bulging youth population, it is staggering how little of the mainstream pop culture (films, shows, music etc.) ever speaks to the life and struggles of a young person. there are not a lot of stories about young people figuring things out (other than shaadi).

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Hamza

5 years

Now that Game of Thrones is over lets actually look at some fascinating and important characters in ASOIAF that never made it to the adaptation. They could have made the world of GOT far far richer and added coherence to the story. THREAD.

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4 years

The lesson here is that there are no two extreme sides. There is only one extreme side and it has demonstrated this by attacking a peaceful gathering of people whose only fault is to ask for their god-given, constitutionally promised rights. Stop equating the two now.

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BREAKING: Religious parties rally on the other side of the road started throwing bricks, sticks, and shoes at the #AuratMarch2020 in #Islamabad outside the press club, tried breaking the barrier formed by police in between.

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4 years

why does Pakistan have a brain drain? it's because: -govt. bans avenues for creativity & opportunities (including social media) -provides no support system or conditions for young professionals to thrive -boomer uncles are unwilling to give space. instead dismiss youth as stupid

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6 years

Jibran Nasir and Awami Worker's Party may not have won seats this time but they entered electoral politics. They campaigned, learned about and set their foundations for a people-oriented grassroots politics. The future is still bright. A battle was lost but the war goes on.

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1 year

just found out my teenage cousin is an Andrew Tate fan. previously he looked up to Ducky bhai. another cousin is in his thirties and still thinks women shouldn't work until Maulana Tariq Jameel says it explicitly. i can't hang out with these people. i really can't.

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Hamza

7 months

"undocumented Afghans" is a terrible term in its implications. humans do not have to be 'documented' by the State to be able to live in a place. human freedom and dignity should not be dependent on a piece of paper.

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3 years

this is a v interesting moment in Pakistan cricket fandom cos we still haven't fully processed how a perennially broken cricket administrative structure from a dysfunctional country even managed to produce such an efficient, clinical, and thoroughly professional team.

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8 months

This shameful Pakistani regime is not just kicking out Afghan refugees—many of whom have spent their entire lives here—but also stealing their assets (cattle, etc.) and making it impossible for them to be able to find life anywhere else. This is beyond cruel.

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4 years

my first salary never came, the bank job i was getting cos of my late father was given to a woman but its okay because she's poor too & we fell in love & i also ran a scam with my roommates where we got caught in middle of a kidnapping but we saved the little girl & were awarded.

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Hamza

4 years

One part of growing up is coming to the realization that fancy colleges, stellar credentials and big profiles are not just about merit, but also privileges of many kinds. Basically, even the stupid among the elites can get to have wonderful academic and career trajectories.

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2 years

you know how fucked up the mental health industry in this country is fucked up when an experienced psychiatrist tells you "bas sabr shukar kia karo aur namaz parho sab theek hojaye ga"

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2 years

deep friendships are a v good example of how you can love someone for who they are, and not for what they can do for you. that's unconditional love.

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4 years

Only recently found out that Wo Humsafar Tha was actually a ghazal written for the 1971 tragedy and the separation of East Pakistan from West Pakistan. Lyrics be hitting differently.

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2 years

have my official farewell at my old workplace tomorrow. 100 likes and i'll sing 'bas bhai bas ziada baat nahin chief saab, aj kay baad mulaqat nahin chief saab" in front of my CEO and all the senior managers ✌🤘

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5 years

-Feudal lord who built his career with the patronage of a dictator. -Lost elections but wanted power so played his part in inciting the 1971 War. -Kept silent as genocide went on. -Played a role in Islamizing this country. Destroyed the economy for future decades.

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4 years

Can we all Desi young adults just get together & collectively inform our parents and elders that the world they grew up & raised us for may not exist anymore? The expectations they have of us were for a time they're familiar with, not us. We deserve to find our own new paths.

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4 years

Have we considered the possibility that Jinns and Churails might have a presence on social media? Like you never know that anon account you normally interact with is actually a Jinn.

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Hamza

4 years

fav if you were also a class monitor or prefect or head student or student council member in your school. and while you're at it, please re-examine why you were raised to think of it as a good thing and an achievement.

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3 years

Happy Birthday to Jesus, Jinnah, and my mother. All three deserved a better life.

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3 years

the sheer intimacy of someone asking 'how was your day' after a long, tiring day.

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4 years

I don't want to be part of a 'resilient nation' anymore. I just want to live in a world free of terrorist violence where the pain and patience of victims are not romanticized as some great necessary sacrifice.

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2 years

we were discussing familial hurt and abuse and my therapist said "you're a young person. just remember this is just your first family and home. there'll be another that you'll get to create yourself"😭😭😭

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4 years

ayub khan be like "i know a spot" then take the whole government machinery to a hilly area close to military headquarters thousands of miles away from Karachi and thereby permanently changing the political dynamics of the country.

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2 years

PSA: A lot of grad schools are now accepting the Duolingo test for English proficiency which is cheaper and easier. It would be worth emailing your target schools and asking if they accept Duolingo. Spread this further.

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3 years

we can talk about being humble in victory and respectful to Indian team after their loss but i remember the condescending, arrogant, dismissive, and downright humiliating tone in which their anchors and ex-cricketers have talked about Pakistan cricket for years.

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3 years

friendship breakups hurt more cos they're not even breakups. there are no farewells, no final words, no closure. you just wake up one day and realize that the person you once deeply loved & talked to daily has chosen not to talk or reach out to you for so long.

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10 months

grateful to the establishment for making sure this generation doesn't miss out on the martial law experience that every Pakistani must go through. great job.

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Hamza

5 years

Just realised Billo De Ghar is actually a song about a romantic middle-class man's excitement about going to his crush's house but failing to do so because of the problematic political and social situation of the city.

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7 months

growing up, my mother used to tell us that the only thing worse than an intentional baddua is 'aah', the silent sigh of the helpless that can change fate. i hope the 'aah' in the eyes of these precious Palestinian children destroys the whole Empire right down to its very core.

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Syeda Aiman Zahra 🍁

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Meet Maya (6 years old) who was carrying two bottles of water for her and her family in Gaza. 🇵🇸

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4 years

the famous song bella ciao strong implies the existence of a song named edward ciao and another named jacob ciao.

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4 years

"i suffered when i was in your place, so should you" is the pettiest, most non-sensical way of thinking i've seen. if you had a tough time yourself in your formative phases, shouldn't that prompt you to make it easy for those who come after? no concept of paving the way?

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5 years

Things that I'll always find fascinating in family gatherings: My uncles & aunts talking to each other in Punjabi but switching to Urdu when speaking to my generation and then switching again to Punjabi when they go back to their discussions. All of this happens very naturally.

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3 years

are you naturally good and kind with kids or are you just giving out the love in the world that was denied to you as a child?

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3 years

There is no way to intellectualize the harsh truth that religion has been weaponized by the State and citizens to a point of no return. It seems all downhill from here.

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Hamza

4 years

Art produced in moments of radical celebration hits differently.

@muhammad_hamza9

M Hamza Irshad.

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4 years

Powerful. #AuratAzadiMarch #AuratMarch2020

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8 months

watching a genocide happen live on social media is insane. everyday you wake up to find a qt about a person who we are told died moments ago in the Gaza bombing, a person with a whole life story of joys, loves, & struggles. everyday a little flicker of light goes off forever.

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3 years

its okay. Babar made a strategic decision to get out knowing that the whole tournament is still remaining and rest of the batsman need to get some time on the pitch. v far-sighted move.

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6 months

my sis got married today. every time there is a major event in our lives in the form of graduations, achievements, weddings,, etc. i always think about my father. i wish he was here to see us become the adults we are and how we keep on going, despite everything.

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3 years

shout out to the people who think i have far more potential than i actually do. you're wrong but the sentiment counts very much.

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2 years

god do i really need to go through so much character development when i am at best a background character???

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Hamza

4 years

sorry i didn't text you back i am actually a cake designed as a human being

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These Are All Cakes

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2 years

To an outsider, Karachi doesn't seem like it is one city. It's a tenuously held chain of many poorly developed towns (and the occasionally developed spaces for the elites). The weak urban infrastructure can barely hold all this together.

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4 years

Some of you have never experienced genuine, unconditional affection from anyone and it shows.

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8 months

"Pakistanis shouldn't talk about Palestine cos how they treat their own minorities" my friend, all struggles for emancipation against the cruel structures of modernity & empire worldwide are linked & go beyond the boundaries of whatever nation-state they might be situated in.

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2 years

So you all know about 'flowery English' in Pakistan? I mean we all make fun of the overly verbose English used in government documentation and writings here. But do you know where it originates from? There is an interesting story about its possible origins. A small🧵

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2 years

Over the past 2 decades, beyond the limited binaries of war/terrorism/security/fundamentalism, there has been some really interesting research & theorization done on Pakistani society, politics, and history. A thread🧵of some of the books showing Pakistan in its complexity.

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2 years

one thing i've learned is that you should never be afraid to shoot your shot. just do it respectfully. even if you get rejected, they'll be flattered and sometimes, you'll get a nice friendship out of it.

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4 years

For this Aurat March, just gonna take inspiration from some of you & help out online. So peeps, if you're tired of doing the intellectual/emotional labour of explaining the points/arguments of Aurat March to so many men, feel free to send them my way or tag me. I'll do that work.

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2 years

you know how when you've been mentally ill for a long time and then slowly your mental health improves and a day comes where you feel optimized? it always makes me marvel at how there are people out there in the world who get to be their optimized version all the time.

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2 years

Leave Twitter just because it’s fallen into disrepair under terrible leadership? Babe, I’m a Pakistani.

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3 years

the 'ranjish hi sahi dil hi dukhaney kay liye aa akay phir mujh ko chor kay janney kay liye aa" to "kisī harf mein kisi baab mein nahin ayega tira zikr meri kitab mein nahin ayega" pipeline of moving on.

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2 years

KK's voice was a constant companion through some of the saddest moments of my life. RIP :(

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4 years

So instead of work from home, they are going for alternate day attendances. Very cool. Now I just have to negotiate with the Coronavirus to not show up on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays because that's when I'll be the office. Counting on you, my viral friend.

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2 years

using humour, constant chattering, consuming literature, media, music, content, literally any external stimulus to make sure i am never alone with my thoughts.

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1 year

hey is it just me or did the winter just...vanish all of a sudden?

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