Ali Kazmi

@sohailabid جتنی دیر میں ڈر لگنا شروع ہوتا ہے اتنی دیر میں گلگت آجاتا ہے۔ فرام اسلام آباد۔

آپ میں سے کوئی گلگت جہاز سے گیا ہے، ڈر تو نہیں لگتا؟

@ZubairKhanPK All these lines, in some shape or form, have been part of Lahore's mass transit plan for at least the past 15 years or so.

Punjab Approves Pakistan’s First Fully Underground Metro Train Project. Govvt sources said 27 km Blue Line, running from Valencia Town to Babu Sabu Chowk. The total cost is expected to exceed Rs600 billion. What happened to that Hundred of Billion Orange Line & Red Line?

@LahoriElite There was a rumour that Jayasuriya had metal wires or some similar contraption in his bat that helped him hit such huge sixes. This was back when he was at the peak of his batting career.

@LahoriElite Sanath Jayasuriya’s bat.

virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions: “to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones”

@sohailabid Thanks :)

@alithekazmi Not sure, it was a prison interview by a familar youtube jornalist. Will share if I see the video again.

A young Pakistani man, 17, and his friend crossed the border at Ganda Singh Wala into India for fun, spent a day in Ferozpur city, came back to Pakistan the next day and was caught by the border police in Pakistan! Manto style fiction turned reality.

@sohailabid Which prison?

This happened a few years ago, the boy is now a man of 23, and is about to finish his jail term of 7 years at a Pakistani prison.

The speed of light visualized on a cosmic scale. 📽: Dr James O'Donoghue

The nightingale Nayyara Noor (1950-2022) croons a fabled ghazal of Behzad Lakhnavi "aye jazba-e-dil agar main chahun, har chez muqabil aa jaye". Contrary to the reign of Saree-donning ghazal-gayaks, she appeared simple & sublime as was her singing, devoid of classical nakhre.

Barilla pasta has a Spotify playlist. Each playlist is the exact length of cook time for the varieties of pasta. Press play, drop the noodles, music stops, al dente noodles.

When the amount of Eidi you have received is beyond your expecations

@SirDigALot All of these detailed stories are just from the last 6 months. The social media algorithm might be one reason for you not coming across them and making ill-informed inferences.

@SirDigALot I would say that this covers many aspects of the Gaza situation as well. youtu.be/x7idSCQpTwc?si…

Might have moved me last year. Not now. Where's the BBC special on, let's say someone from Gaza trying to make sense of their life. Conviently timed puff piece yeah, very convenient. No boosting here at all. Super organic. NOT!

@DThucydides @BlastPmln @SirDigALot @CherieDamour_ This is from last month. youtu.be/Jcoq1fvSDy0?si…

@BlastPmln @SirDigALot @CherieDamour_ BBC remembers to make this interview 1 week after a failed hijacking by BLA that has resulted in immense pressure on the government from both the public and soldiers to wake up and launch an operation? Very interesting timing.

@HNadim87 Hi Hussain. Would it be possible to talk to you in detail about your research on the matter?

Never thought my thousands of hours of academic research on US foreign aid, crunching USAID data sets, interviewing over a 100 officials would end up becoming more relevant and useful in 2025. Coming from the policy side into research, the journey made me realise things about aid, politics, governance and narratives in ways I never thought would be possible. Foreign aid, no matter how benign, is an intervention in the social, cultural, intellectual and political ecosystem of the recipient country. Almost always it will wreck havoc no matter what the intentions are, given the way aid is structured and transmitted. I could write a lot more about it but I’ve already done that in a boring academic book: amazon.com/Aid-Politics-N…

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A 19km road and 2.8 billion rupees.