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Zahra Sabri

@ZSabri1

Researcher in Indo-Islamic History and Literatures. Literary translator. Former journalist.

Katılım Ocak 2013
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Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
Remembering the moment, exactly a decade ago, when I won a 'Women in Journalism' award featuring this cherished sketch of @zubeidamustafa, the lady I respect most in this profession🥰No country is easy for women; some are harder than others. Few women emerge as true role models.
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International Women's Media Foundation@IWMF

Congratulations, Zahra Sabri, for winning the 2013 Zubeida Mustafa Award for Journalistic Excellence: ow.ly/rOCpN

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@omarali50 You know it's kind of misogynistic to go around calling women commentators, Apa? And it's not just any film - don't be obtuse. It's an extreme, deliberate distortion of history & unfair both to the Marathas & the Mughals, not to mention the poor modern Bharati chap on the street.
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Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
@ShivamSethi01 @awami_rational They didn't have stable borders because most weren't actually countries, and only became countries relatively recently. Turkey was not Turkey 500 years ago. It was part of the larger Ottoman Empire, & had no independent existence. There's no such thing as a civilisational state.
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Rudra Pulastya@ShivamSethi01·
@ZSabri1 @awami_rational From China to Russia to Germany to UK to United States to Japan to Iran to Turkey, no country or civilizational state has had the same borders for hundreds of years, they change every now and then. Kingdom of Sikkim joined India as a State in 1975
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Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
Most pre-1947 books in that 'India' library belong to Pakistan too, my friend. Everything that historically impacted/happened on PK's soil is an indelible part of PK's history. Else, today's Bharat, also, must give up claim to all its pre-1947 history. youtube.com/watch?v=QN41DJ…
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@ZSabri1 Pakistan was created as part of Independence of India Act 😂 1947 was offically & legally a transfer of power The final story of Pakistan in 3 pictures, no scope for discussion

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Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
@ShivamSethi01 @awami_rational "When it was no longer India" -- so India (historically) is not a place but an ever shifting condition/circumstance/season? It comes and goes. The Mughals never used the word 'India' for their domains, which stretched to Kabul at one point. I guess they never ruled 'India', then?
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Rudra Pulastya@ShivamSethi01·
@ZSabri1 @awami_rational My ancestors were Indians and when it was no longer India they left for India under the following circumstances x.com/i/status/20386…
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@KhajuriaManu 15th August 1947, My Dadi then 26, heavily pregnant with my father and 3 daughters aged 2 to 6, sat in a basement in Peshawar with limited food, water and a container of Kerosene in case they broke in, my grandfather sat on the roof with a rifle. It was a week before they escaped

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Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
@ShivamSethi01 @awami_rational Oh, so your ancestors are originally from Pakistan, too. How nice! Just proves our point. Welcome -- you are officially part of Pakistan's history 🥳
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Rudra Pulastya@ShivamSethi01·
@ZSabri1 @awami_rational As a descendent of a Clan mentioned in Rig Veda, whose family is from Peshawar (native village) going back countless generations till 1947. Jihadis (basis of Paxtan) cant appropriate our legacy like Greek History remains Greek not Turkish even though most of Turkey was Greek
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Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
@awami_rational @ShivamSethi01 Yeah, and that "unbroken" chain is part and parcel of today's Pakistan. We are, oh, so comfortable with that. And all these Persian, Arab, Greek and Roman chroniclers were not airdropped to your native village. They had to trudge through Pakistan to reach it.
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Awami Rational Party ☭@awami_rational·
@ShivamSethi01 @ZSabri1 If she's engaging with you that means that she's not from the Pak.Studies lot ! If thousands of years in the future some new countries popped out here those won't change historical facts ! Shared historical-heritage, languages exist 🫤
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Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
@KumarDurgesh121 They might, if they're more knowledgeable than you. You're certainly not the sun if that's what you are even jokingly trying to imply, lol.
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D Kumar@KumarDurgesh121·
@ZSabri1 Will fireflies now tell us how old the Sun is?
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Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
"Pakistan did not begin in 1947. Ask the Indus." 🤔 Actually, PK did begin in 1947. And India, as we know it today, ALSO began in 1947. Just undeniable facts. Both are technically "young" countries. No shame in it. Glad to see us BOTH celebrate our earlier heritage, though.
Dan Qayyum@DanQayyum

My last article introduced you to the people. This piece introduces you to the ground beneath their feet. It is 14 minutes. It covers seven thousand years. And it will make you rethink everything you were taught about where Pakistan begins.

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Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
Yes, yes, yes. We share these each of cultures with Bharat and Bangladesh, basically. They are not exclusive to any one country, just as Muslim culture is not exclusive to any one country. It belongs to soil of Bharat (present-day India), as much as to Pakistan & Bangladesh.
Pakistani@FactCheckAsia

Pakistan is the land of the Soan Culture, Mehrgarh Culture, Kot Diji Culture, Indus Valley Civilization, Gandhara Civilization, and Vedic Culture. Modern Day Indians always try to claim our culture!

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Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
@ShivamSethi01 Most pre-1947 books in that 'India' library belong to Pakistan too, my friend. Everything that historically impacted/happened on PK's soil is an indelible part of PK's history. Else, today's Bharat also has has to give up claim to all its pre-1947 history. youtube.com/watch?v=QN41DJ…
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Rudra Pulastya@ShivamSethi01·
@ZSabri1 Pakistan was created as part of Independence of India Act 😂 1947 was offically & legally a transfer of power The final story of Pakistan in 3 pictures, no scope for discussion
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@Zebradeauditore It implies that Pakistan was inevitable -- whatever happened thereafter in history -- once bin Qasim landed here. It's historically anachronistic and short-sighted at the same time. There's no need for us to ape simplistic brands of US nationalism.
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Sunny Singh@ProfSunnySingh·
Iran’s diplomat makes a Jane Austen reference. White British male newscaster does not get it. SO much of contemporary British cultural hubris and ignorance (even of themselves) encapsulated in this clip.
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Sabahat Zakariya@sabizak·
Honestly, I so felt this, Anne Hathaway. No word works quite like inshallah when it comes to future hopes and fears.
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Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
@sabizak @hshakeem65 Could it be that you're seeing this from a specific regional/generational lens,conditioned by legitimate disgust at textbooks around you at a particular time? Historically, if Jinnah had succeeded in preferred plan, even Azad might have been happy. Unfair to say J hated "pagans".
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Sabahat Zakariya@sabizak·
Christian Rome would not be able to lay claim to the pagan Roman empire if it had built its whole cultural persona on hating the pagans. Also, Christian Rome managed to usurp all pagans and completely destroyed pagan religions, Islam was not able to do/did not want to do the same in India, but managed to do it partially through the creation of Pakistan. Hindus were displaced from their original homelands thanks to partition. Anyway, the IVC is neither Hindu nor anything else we can perceive of, except there seems to be consensus that it was a Dravidian world. If so, and if Pakistan is IVC, will we also connect ourselves with south Indians then? The problem is all these ideas are bogus and shallow and desperate attempts at trying to find a separate identity when there is no such thing as a coherent, separate national identity here. Just this urge to find one separating identity is a perverse one
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Sabahat Zakariya@sabizak·
Yes, IVC is Pakistan’s birth certificate because woh bhee Islam ke noor se munavvar thay. Perfect grift dhoondh liya hai inhon ne thuray huay Pakistaniyon ko khush karnay ka (read ullu banaanay ka)
Dan Qayyum@DanQayyum

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

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Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
I agree with an Iranian friend that a better country name for present-day PK (formerly West Pakistan) could have been "Sindh" -- the old, historical name for this particular, distinct land. ہند سندھ پیرا تیری نوبت باجے نال بجے گھڑیال بھلا جھولے لالن سندھڑی دا سیہون دا شہباز قلندر
Hasnain Mirza@HasnainWizard

The word "t" in Pakistan stands for the Turkic land Tukharistan according to Ch. Rahmat Ali the one who named Pakistan... He also claimed Pakistan to be Turkic in an interview to Khalide Edib Edivar bcs many of its residents including himself being Gujar were from Hunnic stock.

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Asad ur Rehman
Asad ur Rehman@assedrehman·
@ZSabri1 @awami_rational @sabizak Not my area of expertise for sure. But naming a modern republic as Sindh because Arab cartographer did it is kind of an over-stretch. Thanks for sharing the article and I do not insist on my reading of the history. GN.
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