Mudassir Khan

My analysis on the role of the PAS & Ishrat-led institutional reforms: Pakistan Administrative Service is the sickman of the bureaucracy. For the institutional reforms to succeed & public services' spirit to flourish in Pakistan, the PAS must die. nayadaur.tv/amp/2020/02/si…

When James Forbes (1749-1819) visited India, he observed that Hindus would build small temples within or beside Muslim buildings and gradually expanded it until the structure was effectively appropriated. Nothing has changed today... James wrote: "Here are many splendid remains of Mughal buildings, and ruinous mausoleums in a grand style; in some of their enclosures the Hindus had built small places of worship, which among so bigotted a people appeared very extraordinary; in another place we saw a Muslim mosque inhabited by a Hindu Gosains."

My hate to Israel grows in every cell, every fibre and every molecule of my being everyday

There are two issues I think that are causing what you call “daylight robbery from the poor”. One is the government’s insatiable appetite to spend more and more money and for which they have to impose more in taxes every year. The second is that the imposition of taxes is mostly on the poor and the middle classes. Hence the high levy on petrol (60% of which) is consumed by motorcyclists. Or the high tax on salaries so that their taxes have gone from Rs 150 bn to Rs 700 bn. The result is that both the middle classes and the poor are getting poorer.

Something similar to this happened during the lifetime of the Prophet (peace be upon him) when a woman from the Ghamid tribe came to confess to a capital offense (Zina) while she was pregnant. Under Islamic law, justice is completely grounded in absolute fairness. This means that an unborn child cannot carry the burden or punishment of the mother's crime. When she confessed, the Prophet (peace be upon him) did not execute the sentence immediately; he told her to go back home until she gave birth. After she delivered the child and returned, he still sent her back again, telling her to nurse the infant until the child was fully weaned and eating solid food. Only after another companion stepped up to guarantee the proper care, upbringing, and financial support of the living child was the sentence carried out. This legal precedent established a permanent rule in Islamic jurisprudence: a pregnant or nursing mother cannot be executed until her child is born, weaned, and fully secure. In all, this proves that the preservation and rights of innocent life will always override the immediate execution of state justice. Allah knows best.

The cancerous state that needs to cease to exist

The most important word in imperial media is "allegedly." Palestinian health officials allege the death toll is 70,000. Witnesses allege that the strike hit a hospital. Survivors allege that soldiers committed acts of torture. Allegedly. Now watch how "allegedly" disappears when the victims are on the other side. Hamas attacked. Hamas massacred. Hamas killed. No "allegedly." No "according to Israeli sources." No epistemic caution. The word "allegedly" is a small word that performs an enormous function. It quarantines doubt. It applies uncertainty surgically, to specific claims, made by specific people, specifically the people whose deaths and suffering the powerful would prefer you to hold at arm's length. It is a one-word editorial policy. It is a one-word verdict on whose testimony counts.

The single dumbest conspiracy theory in the entire world is that every major humanitarian institution on earth is conspiring to falsely frame Israel for the crime of genocide. And yet believing this bat shit insane conspiracy theory is the only way to think it’s not a genocide. There is no other way to claim that there is no genocide happening in Gaza without treating this self-evidently ridiculous theory as true. In order to believe that there is no genocide in Gaza, you need to accept it as a given that the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory is conspiring to frame Israel for this crime. You also need to believe that the International Association of Genocide Scholars is in on the conspiracy. You also need to believe the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem is in on the conspiracy. You also need to believe that Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, another Israeli organization, is in on the conspiracy. You also need to believe that Amnesty International is in on the conspiracy. You also need to believe that Doctors Without Borders are in on the conspiracy. You also need to accept that Human Rights Watch are in on the conspiracy. You also need to accept that the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights is in on the conspiracy. You also need to accept that the International Federation for Human Rights is in on the conspiracy. You also need to believe that the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is in on the conspiracy. You also need to believe the conspiracy is so widespread and pervasive that there exists not a single major human rights group which holds that Israel is NOT committing genocide in Gaza. You need to believe this conspiracy goes all the way to the top. Toward what end are all these institutions conspiring to deceive the world into thinking that the innocent, virtuous state of Israel is guilty of these heinous crimes? Well, that’s where the “theory” part of conspiracy theory comes in. You need to have some reason why all these groups would be working together to trick everyone into thinking Israel is committing genocide. “Cui bono?”, as they say in conspiracy circles. If you press the average Israel defender to explain why all these institutions would be lying about Israel’s actions in Gaza, you will eventually get them to admit that their theory is that all these institutions secretly hate Jews. That it’s a giant antisemitic conspiracy designed to discredit the Israeli state and make Jewish people feel sad. I defy you to find me a dumber conspiracy theory than this. There’s nothing that can possibly compete. QAnon. Flat earth. Reptilians. They all seem fairly reasonable in comparison to this demented nonsense. They’re certainly a lot less harmful. They’re a lot less harmful because they’re not being used to justify an ongoing genocide, and because they’re not being promoted by the most powerful people in the world. All the major western powers who’ve refused to acknowledge that we’re looking at a genocide in Gaza subscribe to the dumb conspiracy theory in question. All the mass media institutions who frame genocide as an unfounded accusation rather than an established fact verified by the overwhelming consensus of the world’s relevant experts necessarily subscribe to the world’s dumbest conspiracy theory as well. It’s the dumbest conspiracy theory in the world, but it’s also the mainstream narrative. It’s what our governments and our media tell us is reality. They’re a bunch of tinfoil hat-wearing crackpots, and they rule the world. The western empire is the craziest, most murderous, most deceitful, and most dangerous power structure on earth, and it is only getting more so. Which is why the narratives we’re being asked to believe are getting dumber and dumber by the year.

Highest rates of prostitution in the World : 1.Thailand (Buddhist) 2.Denmark (Christian) 3.Italy (Christian) 4.Germany (Christian) 5.France (Christian) 6.Norway (Christian) 7.Belgium (Christian) 8.Spain (Christian) 9.United Kingdom (Christian) 10.Finland (Christian) Highest rates of theft in the world: 1.Denmark and Finland (Christian) 2.Zimbabwe (Christian) 3.Australia (Christian) 4.Canada (Christian) 5. New Zealand (Christian) 6.India (Hindu) 7.England and Wales (Christian) 8.United States (Christian) 9.Sweden (Christian) 10.South Africa (Christian) Highest rates of alcohol addiction in the world: 1.Moldova (Christian) 2.Belarus (Christian) 3.Lithuania (Christian) 4.Russia (Christian) 5.Czech Republic (Christian) 6.Ukraine (Christian) 7.Andorra (Christian) 8.Romania (Christian) 9.Serbia (Christian) 10.Australia (Christian) Highest homicide rates in the world: 1.Honduras (Christian) 2.Venezuela (Christian) 3.Belize (Christian) 4.El Salvador (Christian) 5.Guatemala (Christian) 6.South Africa (Christian) 7.Saint Kitts and Nevis (Christian) 8.The Bahamas (Christian) 9.Lesotho (Christian) 10.Jamaica (Christian) Most dangerous gangs in the world: 1.Yakuza (non-religious) 2.Agberos (Christian) 3.Wah Sing (Christian) 4.Jamaica Posse (Christian) 5.Primeiro (Christian) 6.Aryan Brotherhood (Christian) Largest drug cartels in the world: 1.Pablo Escobar – Colombia (Christian) 2.Amado Carrillo – Colombia (Christian) 3.Carlos Lehder – Germany (Christian) 4.Griselda Blanco – Colombia (Christian) 5.Joaquín Guzmán – Mexico (Christian) 6.Rafael Caro – Mexico (Christian) And then they say that #Islam is the cause of violence and terrorism in the world and want us to believe that. Who started World War I? Not Muslims. Who started World War II? Not Muslims. Who killed about 20 million of Australia’s indigenous people? Not Muslims. Who dropped the nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan? Not Muslims. Who killed more than 100 million Native Americans in South America? Not Muslims. Who killed about 50 million Native Americans in North America? Not Muslims. Who kidnapped more than 180 million Africans as slaves from Africa, of whom about 88% died and were thrown into the oceans? Not Muslims. First, we must define terrorism or understand how terrorism is viewed by non-Muslims. If a non-Muslim commits a terrorist act, it is called a crime; but if a Muslim commits it, it is called terrorism. We must stop dealing with double standards.

اندازہ نہیں تھا کہ ایسی عید قربان بھی دیکھنے کو ملے گی جس میں سفید پوش کیلئے سب سے بڑی پریشانی یہ ہو گی کہ کوئی یہ نہ پوچھ لے کہ اس بار قربانی ہے بھی یا نہیں؟ بہتر ہے کہ کسی سے قربانی کے ہونے یا نہ ہونے کا نہ پوچھیں۔

They put zip ties on babies before killing them. How is anyone with a conscience supposed to process this horror?

Joe Kent wants you to believe that Israel is merely attacking Arab countries using US military aid out of pure hatred, simply because the Israelis love war. But what he does not tell you, and what really happens behind the scenes, is that these brutal attacks strictly help the US empire consolidate absolute, uncontested power in the Middle East. The fall of Syria and the toppling of the Assad government was directly made possible by the Israeli assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and the heavy bombardment on Iran. These coordinated strikes systematically severed critical communication lines between the Axis of Resistance and allowed Western-backed terror groups to take over the Syrian government. In the same vein, this strategic fall of Syria made it absolutely possible for the US to launch its current full-scale war on Iran. If Syria did not fall, US fighter jets would never be able to fly safely into Iranian airspaces to coordinate large-scale offensives, because integrated Syrian air defense systems would shoot down their aircraft. If Syria did not fall, Hezbollah would have completely overwhelmed Israeli air defense systems with their arsenal of over 150,000 rockets, giving Iran a much better chance to launch devastating, precise attacks on US military installations stationed in Tel Aviv. So the fall of Syria, in which Israel seamlessly coordinated with American precision weapons, highly classified satellite feeds, real-time CIA intelligence, and Pentagon logistics, was the deliberate precursor that made the war on Iran physically possible. On the other hand, this manufactured war on Iran has violently forced many global economies to depend entirely on expensive US liquefied natural gas, which is a massive geopolitical gain for "American" oil majors. The war has conveniently forced the US government to release 1.5 trillion dollars to "American" military-industrial conglomerates, a massive wealth transfer that has secured guaranteed generational wealth for Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Boeing. Furthermore, this war on Iran has handed lucrative supply chain contracts to "American" logistics monopolies, it has empowered "American" private equity firms to swallow up global assets at a discount, and it has allowed "American" financial institutions to completely dictate the price of global maritime shipping lanes. Of course, Joe Kent, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and the rest of the paid agents here spreading the lies that Israel controls America, know all of this information even way better than I pretend to. But they purposely omit it. This is because they are working tirelessly on the payroll of the establishment to sell you the fraudulent narrative that Israel secretly controls America. They want you to associate every military offensive in the Middle East as a regional religious war of Israeli versus Arab, or Jews versus Muslims and Christians, and force you to ignore the cold reality. The undeniable reality is that the Middle East conflicts largely benefit US banks, Oil Majors, Wall Street asset managers, and defense cartels, and everything Israel does, it does so strictly on behalf of Washington. Israel and Bibi Netanyahu are not pulling the strings of Donald Trump to wage war against Arabs in the Middle East. The Zionist regime in Israel and their entire political cabinet all take direct, non-negotiable orders from Washington. Their military expenditures, their domestic economic stability, their intelligence apparatus, and their Iron Dome interceptors are all entirely covered by the US through massive annual foreign military financing, emergency congressional bailout packages, and subsidized geopolitical loans. And whatever attacks Israel decides to carry out away from their home soil are all pre-written, heavily coordinated, financially sponsored, and explicitly greenlit by the Pentagon. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

The government seems totally confused. Markets are allowed to stay open after 8 pm but speed limit on motorway will be 100/hour, now a source of earning by issuing more traffic violation tickets. Renovation of government offices is going on to finish allocated development funds before end June but the government is implementing austerity measures.

A female octopus dies the day her eggs hatch. The male dies a few weeks after mating. The species has no parents. No teachers. No elders. No one alive when a young octopus emerges has ever met another octopus. This is the part of the "octopus civilization" claim that the claim itself never addresses. Civilization is not just intelligence. It is intelligence transmitted across generations. Octopuses are extraordinarily intelligent for animals their size. They pass mirror tests. They solve novel puzzles. They use tools. They have personality differences across individuals that are stable enough to qualify as character. The neuroscience of how they process information is unlike anything else on Earth — two-thirds of their neurons are in their arms, which means each arm partially thinks for itself. None of this is in dispute among biologists. What is in dispute is whether intelligence alone is the precondition for civilization, and the answer that most evolutionary biologists give is no. The preconditions are roughly four. The species needs long enough lifespans that knowledge can accumulate within an individual and transfer to the next generation. Humans have 70 years. Elephants have 60. Whales have 80. Octopuses have one to two years for most species, three for the largest. The species needs social structure that brings individuals into sustained contact. Humans live in groups. Chimps live in troops. Wolves live in packs. Octopuses are aggressively solitary. They actively avoid each other. When researchers put two octopuses in the same tank, they often kill and eat each other within days. Recent observations of small "octopus cities" in Jervis Bay are exceptions notable precisely because they are exceptions. The species needs cultural transmission. Parents teaching children. Skills passing across generations. Information accumulating beyond what any single brain can hold. Octopuses do not have this. The mother never meets her young alive. There is no one to teach them anything. Every generation of octopuses learns from scratch what every previous generation already learned and then died with. The species needs an environment that permits the technology stack. Fire is the foundation. Metallurgy follows fire. Chemistry follows metallurgy. Electricity follows chemistry. Underwater, none of this is available. You cannot smelt copper at the bottom of the sea. You cannot run an electrolysis reaction in saltwater without it being immediately disrupted. The path from stone tools to civilization that humans took relies on dry-environment chemistry that does not exist in the ocean. Octopuses have one of the four preconditions. They lack the other three by deep biological commitment, not by minor circumstance. Changing any one of them would require evolutionary restructuring of the species across millions of years. The interesting thing about the octopus civilization claim is what it reveals about the popular model of civilization. The popular model assumes intelligence is the bottleneck. Evolutionary biology suggests it is one of the easier ingredients to evolve. Long life, social structure, cultural transmission, and a chemistry-permitting environment are the harder ones. Humans had all four. The next civilization, if there is one, will probably come from a species that already has at least three of them.

I no longer feel a sense of relief when the US war machine shows signs of de-escalation, because these days it's just a sign they're getting ready to escalate somewhere else. If Washington sets up an MOU with Iran it only means they're preparing to regime change Cuba, with plans to re-target Iran using different strategies already being drawn up for a later date. It's like when you know a guy who always abuses his girlfriends. If you see one of his partners escape her abusive relationship, after a certain point you're going to stop feeling a sense of relief, because after watching the patterns play out over and over again you know he's just going to find some other unfortunate woman to put in that spot. The amount of abuse remains constant; all that changes is the victim. The violence of the US empire remains constant. It moves around, but it doesn't diminish. If you see it pulling back a bit, that only means it's preparing to come roaring back, like a wave to the shore. The tide of imperial violence is going to keep returning until the empire is dismantled.

@nadeemhaque انتہائی شرمناک ٹویٹ ہے۔ جب یہ غریب گھروں کو عید سے 2 روز پہلے واپس جاتے ہیں تو 10، 10 گنا مہنگے کرایے بھر کے جاتے ہیں۔ بھیڑ بکریوں کی طرح بندے پہ بندہ لوڈ ہوتا ہے۔ آپ کو پکڑ کے عید سے ایک دن پہلے لوکل بسوں پہ سفر کراتے ہیں۔

Eid coming labor already gone for a holiday. Return in 10 days. we ALL love a good dramatic lament about poverty 😭💔 Yet the poor? They’re out here living their best lives — taking long luxurious holidays, endless breaks, and sliding into laziness at the first opportunity! Why work hard for money when you can just… not? Daily wage laborers refusing to put in extra time for piece rate? Conclusion: There is no poverty, folks. People are contented. ! 🏖️💅”

Prophet Muhammad did not die in battle, assassination, or some mysterious cover-up like critics online try to imply. Islamic history is actually very detailed about his final days. Years before his death, after the Battle of Khaybar, a Jewish woman poisoned some meat offered to him. He tasted it, spat it out, and survived the immediate incident. One of his companions, Bishr ibn al-Bara, ate more of it and later died. Muhammad himself continued living for years after that event. Near the end of his life, he reportedly said he still felt the effects of that poison. Muslims see this as part of his suffering, not some hidden scandal. When he became seriously ill in 632 CE, he was surrounded by his family and closest companions, including his wife Aisha, his daughter Fatimah, and companions like Abu Bakr and Umar ibn al-Khattab. His final days were not about power, revenge, or wealth. Reports describe him praying, advising people to treat others well, maintain prayer, and avoid oppression. One of the most repeated narrations is that his last concerns were about prayer and kindness to those under people’s care. His final moments happened in Aisha’s room, with his head resting against her. According to Islamic narrations, his last words included prayers to be with “the highest companion,” meaning closeness to God. No secret murder plot. No dramatic conspiracy. Just a man who spent 23 years preaching, became physically weak after a lifetime of hardship, and died surrounded by the people who loved him most. What’s interesting is that even many non-Muslim historians acknowledge how transparent early Muslims were about his human moments. They documented his sickness, pain, grief, and death openly instead of turning him into an untouchable myth. And Allah knows best💯

Sure the western press are completely ignoring this story right now, but the New York Times will probably publish an opinion piece about it at some point in the 2030s.

میرے دور میں اس قدر دکھ ہیں کہ اگلی نسل پڑھے گی الف سے اداسی @MiftahIsmail @KlasraRauf @HamidMirPAK @AmirMateen2 @MalickViews

This shows that real income in Pakistan today is what it was in 2005/06 and real consumption is about where it was in 2013/14. In 2008 we were richer than both India and Bangladesh. Today they were are richer than us by 78% and 54% respectively. We have wasted 20 years of this nation.

You weren’t “truly appalled” when I$rael tried to kill me in an airstrike, or at the killing of thousands of civilians in Lebanon or when you ignored legal advice to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation you utter fraud. Your government is complicit in the genocide in Gaza, the massacre of children in Lebanon and an ethnic cleansing operation on a scale larger than the Nakba. I’m “truly appalled” that you, Keir Starmer, David Lammy and the rest of the rotten British Cabinet aren’t being hauled in front of The Hague and tried as war criminals