Ali Malik

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Istanbul’s 3,000 year story shows cities can CHANGE without losing their roots...

Roughly a billion people have seen this photograph. Almost none of them knew it was real. It’s the default wallpaper on Windows XP. Green rolling hills, bright blue sky, a few thin clouds. For two decades, most people assumed it was a computer-generated image or something digitally painted. It wasn’t. In January 1996, a former National Geographic photographer named Charles O’Rear was driving through the countryside in California, USA, to visit his girlfriend. A storm had just passed. The winter rains had made the grass unusually green. He noticed a hill on the side of the road that had recently been cleared of grapevines because of a pest infestation. He pulled over, set up his camera on a tripod, took a few pictures, and kept driving. It wasn’t edited. No Photoshop. No colour enhancement. That’s what the hill actually looked like. He sold it to a stock photo agency for a modest fee. Years later, Microsoft bought the full rights for somewhere in the low six figures. Getting the original film to Microsoft was the strange part. The package was worth so much that not a single courier company would ship it. They all refused. Microsoft eventually bought Charles a plane ticket and had him hand-deliver the film himself. They renamed the photo “Bliss.” Windows XP launched in 2001. Within a few years, it was on nearly every computer on earth. Journalists now speculate it may be the most-viewed photograph in human history. The hill is still there. Grapevines grew back over it years ago. Every so often, someone drives past and catches it when the vines have been cleared for the season, and for a few days, it looks exactly like the picture again.

A rainbow is a 360° circle, but only someone at a very high altitude can see the complete circle.😮

🇩🇪Absolute masterclass in road discipline on the German Autobahn! When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, a crystal-clear emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances, fire trucks, and rescue vehicles can fly through at full speed. It’s the law in Germany and Austria, and it literally saves lives. This is how you do it!

"I really feel that this record just completely relaxes me." Imran Khan on his most favorite song "Us and Them" By Pink Floyd

Reminder for all young parents: You only get: - 1 Summer with your baby - 3 with your toddler - 9 with your child - 5 with your teenager This time is precious. Don’t rush it.

1947- Iran was the first country to recognise Pakistan 2026-Pakistan paid back

“Blessed are the peacemakers…” 🇵🇰

We are sitting on a generalised epidemic of AIDS in Pakistan. UNAIDS estimates that Pakistan has the fastest-growing number of AIDS cases in Asia. What BBC film has revealed in Tunsa THQ is a tip of the iceberg. Same practices are rampant in all districts of the country. All blood borne diseases as a result are on the rise in Pakistan due to absolutely irresponsible health care practices including, reuse of disposable syringes by health care workers and drug addicts; unscreened blood transfusions; unprotected sex; unhygienic use of shaving instruments and so on. We have the largest population with Hepatitis C infection in the world ie around 10 million. After RatuDero outbreak of AIDS among young children, I sat up a Taskforce for safe injection which produced a National Action Plan for Injection Safety and we banned the import, manufacture, sale and use of reusable disposable syringes and we promoted their replacement with auto-destruct syringes. The breakdown of governance, lack of implementation of policies, and complete lack of accountability has not made the desired effect on the ground though local manufacture has shifted predominantly to auto-destruct syringes. There are health budget issues, supply chain issues and unfilled posts in public sector health facilities where only poor and gullible people go for lack of affordability. Tunsa is a wake up call, like Ratu Dero (2020) outbreak was, like Jalalpur Jatan (2009) outbreak was, and many other outbreaks. After a spike in media discussions and governments defending the issue gradually dies down. Our successive governments have failed to make health care their priority which is evident from the very low spending on health care. In this case, very young children are suffering and dying due to AIDS due to health care workers criminal behaviour of using same infected syringes on multiple children. Those who survive have to take lifelong medication - a life long suffering and liability on society. Look at the clip below. It is horrendous. This is scandalous. For God sake take care of people’s health and make it a fiscal priority. We have to take a moral and financial responsibility for people’s health care, rather than continue to be dependent on Global Fund, GAVI and others. These are our children, our people and they are our responsibility.

مقطع متداول من بحيرة "نالتار" السياحية في باكستان لطبيبة تقضي إجازتها قرب البحيرة فشاهدت مراهق غرق في الماء، سحبوه وبدأت مباشرة بالإسعافات الطبية الأولية ووجّهت أحدهم بالنفخ في فمه فيما تقوم هي بالضغط على قلبه حتى عاد له النبض ودبّت فيه الحياة بإذن الله

King of skies - Pakistan ❤🇵🇰

This desert in Pakistan was once a river valley. Four thousand years ago people built civilisations here that were among the most advanced on earth. Every single major Indus Valley site sits on Pakistani soil. Mohenjo-daro. Harappa. Mehrgarh. Taxila. Pakistan's birth certificate, written four thousand years before the country had a name. Great work by @TDCPOfficial

You've probably heard the story of the Three Wise Men who traveled to Bethlehem to honor the newborn Jesus (PBUH), but did you know that they established a church in Iran upon their return? This is it: St. Mary Church in Urmia, Iran, built in the 1st century AD.

“The first written words started here” 📍Uruk, Iraq (Mesopotamia)

The actual translation is far more poetic. “From here the first letter of literacy was launched towards every corner of Earth.”

"The Western imagination files Pakistan under "the Muslim world" and assigns it the visual vocabulary of the Arab Gulf, or under "South Asia" and assigns it the cultural vocabulary of India. Both are wrong. Both flatten a country of 240 million people into someone else's story. This piece is an attempt to tell theirs."

This is an outstanding article from @DanQayyum, which reinforces much of what I learned about Pakistan during my five years living in the country. "They are only finally being seen as who they are. A people who have absorbed war, terrorism, economic crisis, and decades of narrative assault, and who have responded not with bitterness but with tea, charity, laughter, music, and an insistence on dignity that no amount of external pressure has been able to break." Pakistan Zindabad.

"What drives Pakistani hospitality is not generosity in the Western sense. It is honour. Hosting someone, even a stranger, even with a cup of tea you cannot really afford, is an act of personal dignity. The host is not doing you a favour. They are doing something for themselves: fulfilling a code that says a guest in your presence is your responsibility, your privilege, and your reputation. "

🇵🇰 #Pakistan as a Net Security Provider & Peacemaker 🔻 1. 🇲🇦 Morocco — Passport Diplomacy (1952) 2. 🇩🇿 Algeria — Anti-Colonial Solidarity (1958) 3. 🇺🇸🇨🇳 The Most Consequential Single Act — Kissinger’s Secret Beijing Trip (1971) 4. Anti-Soviet Afghan War (1979-1989) 5. 🇧🇦 Bosnia — Arms, Troops & Advocacy (1992–1995) 6. 🇺🇸 Rescue of US Rangers in Somalia — Battle of Mogadishu (1993) 7. Jammu & Kashmir — Diplomatic Champion at the UN and Fought Wars with India 8. 🇹🇷 Cyprus support mission 9. 🇦🇿Nagorno-Karabakh — Unwavering Diplomatic Support for Azerbaijan 10. 🇵🇸 Palestinian Solidarity for freedom 11. 🇺🇸🇦🇫 GWOT & US Withdrawal from Afghanistan — The Doha Facilitation - 1100 Al-Qaeda operatives killed and 600 handed-over to US. Over 6000 Pakistan soldiers martyred 11. 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran — Historic US-Iran Mediation (2025–2026) 12. Rohingya Muslims — OIC Advocacy 13. 🇺🇳 Pakistan has contributed over 200,000 troops to 46 United Nations Peacekeeping Operations with 137 martyrs

#opinion| Pakistan has played an astonishing role, bringing the US and Iran face to face at a high level, writes T.C.A. Raghavan #IranWar‌ #Pakistan #UnitedStates telegraphindia.com/opinion/keep-a…