Afifa Sheikh

Today I attended @IndusConclave as an IR student and joined 3 powerful discussions:Pakistan’s growth trap, covering conflict & climate justice from the Global South. I learned so much @yassmin_a words on Sudan really stayed with me, a crisis too often ignored #IndusConclave2025

For anyone who’s ever asked: how do we keep our roots alive in a changing world? This conversation is for you.

As an international relations student, I’m keen to follow this with key voices like Adam Weinstein and Marcus King. The stakes for Pakistan’s foreign policy could not be higher.

Bilal Tanweer has traced stories across languages and borders with his craft as a writer and translator. Now he brings those journeys of words to Lahore. #IndusConclave2025 #BringingTheGlobalSouthToLahore

Luke Soucy has carried poetry across languages with sensitivity and depth. Now he brings that art of translation and verse to Lahore. #IndusConclave2025 #BringingTheGlobalSouthToLahore

Yassmin Abdel-Magied has given voice to the diaspora through her writing, broadcasting, and advocacy. Now she brings her sharp insights and powerful stories to Lahore. #IndusConclave2025 #BringingTheGlobalSouthToLahore

Dr. Hammad Naveed will be sharing his academic and research insights at Indus Conclave 2025. #IndusConclave2025 #BringingTheGlobalSouthToLahore

Ideas know no borders and neither does Indus conclave. Join the movement reshaping the Global South’s voice. #IndusConclave2025 #BringingTheGlobalSouthToLahore

The KP govt, its CM, and rescue teams are directly responsible for the death of 12 family members in Swat (KPK). No one knows who’s running the province. The CM spends a day in Peshawar, 3 in Islamabad, then vanishes for the weekend. Chaos and lawlessness at their peak.

Lahore bohot acha lgra hai, sab apnay apnay pind hi raho wapis na ana.

Hi everyone, check out my latest article on the tensions between India and Pakistan which I wrote two days ago. Despite several developments since then, it's still highly relevant. thrip.org/website/news/m… #Pakistan #PakistanIndianWar

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Check out my latest article on Pakistan-Afghanistan Fragile Ties, published this morning in The Friday Times. #Pakistan #Afghanistan #Talibans # thefridaytimes.com/11-Jan-2025/fr…

My first article of 2025 has been published! Titled "Dirty Politics and Our Moral Mess", it appears in the Spring 2024 edition of The Perception, the magazine of the University of Central Punjab’s Department of Social Sciences. #ThePerception #UCP

Starbucks is finished Wow.. what a response!!!! 🤌🏼

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If you still support this, you’re a racist, heartless, sociopath.

In the last few weeks there have been serious and concerning developments regarding my sons’ father, Imran Khan’s treatment in prison. The Pakistan authorities have stopped all visits to him by his family and his lawyers. They have also postponed all court hearings. In addition to cutting off in- person visits, and in defiance of a court order, his weekly calls to his sons, Sulaiman and Kasim Khan, who are British and who live in London, were stopped on 10th September. We have received reports that the authorities have now turned off the lights and electricity in his cell and he is no longer allowed to leave his cell at any time. The jail cook has been sent on leave. He is now completely isolated, in solitary confinement, literally in the dark, with no contact with the outside world. His lawyers are concerned about his safety and well-being.   These actions come in the context of ongoing targeting of Imran’s family, as well as his party (PTI) members and supporters in an attempt to silence them and all political opposition in Pakistan. Imran’s nephew, Hassan Niazi, a civilian, has been detained in military custody since August 2023. More recently, Imran Khan’s sisters, Uzma and Aleema Khan, who have continued to speak out on his behalf, have also been arrested as they made their way peacefully to a demonstration and they are currently being held in jail, despite there being no proper or lawful basis for their imprisonment.   In June this year the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Imran is unlawfully and arbitrarily detained and called for his immediate release.    As a matter of urgency , we are calling for Imran Khan’s release, and for the release of his sisters and nephew as well as for his sons’ contact with their father to be re-established, so that they may have assurance first-hand that he is well and not being mistreated.

“Save my father, I swear if he dies, I will die too!” Honestly fvck Israel…💔 twitter.com/gazanotice/sta…