Amjad Bhatti

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At today’s High-Level Steering Committee meeting of the SRSP Project, the implementation of the 2026 work plan was formally approved, reaffirming that the SRSP Project to be fully aligned with the Federal Government of Somalia’s strategic plan.

During the SRSP Project Board meeting, the Director General of the Ministry of Interior, Federal Affairs and Reconciliation, @AbdulkadirEA , highlighted the importance of strengthening collaboration and coordination across federal and state institutions to enhance their capacity and ensure efficient, citizen-centered service delivery. He further emphasized that the SRSP must fully align with the 2026 national priorities to produce sustainable and visible results. #ReconciliationSomalia

Minister of Interior, Federal Affairs & Reconciliation, H.E @AliYusufHosh chaired the strategic SRSP High Level Committee meeting today. The meeting brought together the Office of the Prime Minister, Federal Member State Interior Ministeries, Banaadir Regional Administration, UNDP, international partners, and CSOs to review progress and strengthen coordination on Somalia’s state-building and reconciliation initiatives. #ReconciliationSomalia

@zaighamkhan فاتح اور جارح کی تاریخ مزاحمت ،متبادل اور مفتوح کی تاریخ سے ھمیشہ متضاد رہی ھے - جس ھزار سال کی تاریخ کی آپ بات کر رھے وھ محظ تاریخ کا ایک پہلو ھے جسے فاتحین نے اپنی ستائش اور legitimacy کے لئے اختیار کیا لیکن علم البشریات کے ماھر سے طاقت کے ایک تقلیدی رویے کا اظھار عجیب نہیں؟

سلطان سارنگ مقامی لوگوں کا ہیرو ہے کیونکہ ان کی بڑی تعداد گکھڑوں پر مشتمل ہے۔ شیر شاہ سوری برصغیر کی ہزار سالہ مسلم تہزیب کا ایک شاندار کردار ہے اور اسے تمام پاکستان میں ایک ہیرو کی حیثیت حاصل ہے۔ ان کا موازنہ مغل بادشاہ اورنگ زیب اور پختوں مذاحمت کار خوشحال خان خٹک سے کیا جاسکتا ہے۔ اقبال نے تو دونوں کو سیلیبریٹ کیا ہے۔

@syedurahman The Lodi state (1451–1526) was not uncontested. Rana Sanga’s victories (1518–19), Rajput expansion, Tomar resistance in Gwalior, and Afghan noble rebellions weakened Delhi well before Babur’s 1526 invasion. Power in Hindustan was deeply fragmented. Lodis were not Indians.

Were Lodi and Sur rulers truly foreign invaders — or were they Indian dynasties rooted in the soil of Hindustan? In this video we examine historical reality of the Lodi dynasty and the Sur dynasty, including great rulers like Sher Shah Suri. #history youtu.be/RTyftT6_0Qw?si…

@Khadimhussain4 Murshid! This is an interesting point though, it merits in person session!!!!

Murdhid! My point is not only about the place of birth. You might have missed the point that Sher Shah and Lodhis never extracted but spent energies and resources for the well being of the indigenous communities. This fact is acknowledged even by their worst enemies. They considered the Mughals as invaders and resisted them.

But sir, the problem with this proposition is that Mughals invaded the Afghan soil and later the Indian subcontinent (and were declared as heroes) while Farid Khan (Sher Shah) was a Pashtun but was born in Sehsaram Bihar. Juda Nath Sarkar, who is consistent in stigmatising Pashtuns (Afghans), gives due credit to Sher Shah as one of the great administrators, philanthropists and the one keen for the welfare of common people. Even the Hindutva proponents hold him as an indigenous hero. Removing his statue indicates chauvinistic leanings.

After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was captured by the British and exiled far from Delhi to Rangoon (present-day Yangon, Myanmar). There, the once-powerful “King of Delhi” lived out his final years not in a palace, but under guard in a modest residence. Among those who saw him in exile was Horatio Gordon Robley, a British officer stationed in Burma. Robley sketched the aging emperor — no throne, no court, only an old man far from the city he once symbolized. The image is striking because it shows the end of an era. The Mughal Empire that had ruled much of India for centuries didn’t end with a dramatic battlefield — it ended quietly, in exile, with a former emperor writing poetry about a homeland he would never see again. Bahadur Shah Zafar died in 1862, buried in Rangoon. He once wrote he wished for two yards of land in Delhi for his grave. History gave him distance instead — and a sketch that captured the final chapter of a fallen empire. © History of Indian Subcontinent #drthehistories

Discussions underscored the importance of alignment with national development frameworks, including the National Transformation Plan, and coherence with the UN Cooperation Framework. The 2026 Annual Work Plan was endorsed and will be submitted to the Programme Steering Committee for consideration.

Going through Tuzk-e-Babri, a great memoir indeed, one can smell an Oriental arrogance against the Indian homestead in the voice of a homeless but an ambitious Mughal, who seems to have invoked ‘jihad’ tactics when it came to his campaign against Rana Sanga at Khanwa (1527).

@Muzaffa35439810 Sir, again some facts check: Sher Shah Suri’s grandfather, Ibrahim Khan Sur, was an Afghan Sur tribal migrant who entered North India, served under the early Delhi Sultanate’s Afghan political-military networks. His father, Hasan Khan Sur, held a jagir in Bihar under LodhiSultan

@amjadbhatti72 Sher shah has no ruler family and background he was a lay man who achieved power with out any outsiders phenomenon

Sir don’t you think that Humayun vs Sher Shah isn’t “hero vs villain” or “native vs foreign”? Timurid Mughal vs Afghan Suri: two rival imperial projects battling over conquered land and people. Same prize: Delhi. Same logic: extraction, control, subjugation. Both Sunni Muslims.

@Muzaffa35439810 Sir, you may like to check facts, Hyder Ali was born in Budikote, Karnataka, into a non-royal Deccani Muslim military family, and rose to power through the Mysore army.

@amjadbhatti72 What about hyder Ali who was punjabi and ruled in Mysore

@Muzaffa35439810 Sir, in this vein, 18 out of 20 Mughal rulers were born in India. Akbar is Sindhi, then?

@amjadbhatti72 Sher shah born here in Hindustan how can we say him Afghan due to race even he never visited Afghanistan in his whole life

@zaighamkhan Zaigham Bhai, don’t you think Afghans were self-appointed Ashraaf in India by virtue of being invaders instead of carrying local legitimacy?

برصغیر کے مسلمانوں نے ہمیشہ افغانوں کو اشراف میں شمار کیا لیکن افغان طالبان نے نئے طبقاتی نظام میں افغانوں کی اکثریت کو ارزل یعنی ذلیل کے درجے میں ڈال دیا ہے۔ مکمل وی لاگ لنک: youtu.be/wNUycG3sIyg

The Director General of the Ministry of Interior, Federal Affairs, and Reconciliation, Abdulkadir Elmi Ali, held a meeting with the UNDP SRSP project team to review the status of the project, achievements to date, and the 2026 outlook. During the meeting, the Director General underscored the importance of the project and reaffirmed his full support for its effective implementation within his mandate.

How #Somalia is preparing a modern, nationally-owned early-warning ecosystem for conflict prevention. In #SomaliaBlogSeries, read UNDP Somalia's Amjad Bhatti and team unpack Somalia's #ConflictNavigator: go.undp.org/5TZ

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