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Asad ur Rehman

@assedrehman

Anti-populist socialist, admirer of classics, pro-regional integration in South Asia, Love Punjabi Music and Bollywood.

Karachi(pakistan) Katılım Kasım 2010
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Asad ur Rehman
Asad ur Rehman@assedrehman·
It is a strange feeling to see one's name on the title of the book going to bring out by a publishing house whose books played a definite role in shaping your intellectual outlook. But feelings are like incomplete thoughts that neither finish nor leave you alone.
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Asad ur Rehman
Asad ur Rehman@assedrehman·
Here, came another historical claim.
Hamid Karzai@KarzaiH

جناب آقای آصف‌ علی زرداری، رئیس‌جمهور محترم پاکستان اخیراً مدعی شده که #تمدن_گندهارا در زمرهٔ تمدن‌هایی است که هویت ملی پاکستان با آن تعریف میگردد و علاوه بر آن، آدم‌خان-دُرخانی و رباب را بخشی از میراث فرهنگی ناملموس خود برشمرده است. این در حالی است که به روایت تاریخ، تمدن گندهارا مربوط #آریانای کهن بوده که از بامیان تا حوزهٔ سند را در بر می‌گیرد. در واقعیت تمدن شمال هند و پاکستان کنونی ادامهٔ تمدن افغانستان امروزی بشمار میرود. به‌همین ترتیب، برخلاف ادعای رئیس‌جمهور محترم پاکستان، داستان عاشقانهٔ "آدم خان و دُرخانی" و رباب در منابع مختلف از جمله کتاب قدیمی (ملی هینداره)، گزارش سلطنت کابل و وبسایت‌های معلوماتی معاصر، میراث فرهنگی ناملموس ما می‌باشد و رباب، در کنار زیربغلی یکی از دو ابزار موسیقی سنتی افغانستان است که با نام مشهور رباب کابلی معرفی شده و سازمان علمی-فرهنگی ملل متحد(یونسکو)@UNESCO در سال ۲۰۲۴، هنر ساخت رباب را به عنوان میراث فرهنگی افغانستان (و برخی همسایگان شمالی و غربی آن) به رسمیت شناخته است.

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Happymon Jacob
Happymon Jacob@HappymonJacob·
2/ Credit where it's due. The Pakistan Army brokered a ceasefire in a war that killed thousands and closed the Strait of Hormuz. Munir hosted the first direct US-Iran talks since 1979. Peace is a public good. Indian commentators who won't admit this are missing the point.
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Happymon Jacob@HappymonJacob·
In this long-read for INDIA'S WORLD, I ask: is the Pakistan Army's Iran mediation strategy or tactics? My answer: it is a tactical triumph and a strategic sleight of hand. While the world watched Munir broker peace, the army finished capturing the Pakistani state. The reckoning will come. 🧵 @IndiasWorld_mag
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Asad ur Rehman
Asad ur Rehman@assedrehman·
In Pakistan people has built careers on making narratives of self-loathing based on strong culturalist assumptions, hatred for military and reductive understanding of history.
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Asad ur Rehman
Asad ur Rehman@assedrehman·
@ishaantharoor It is not people to people contact but state to state engagement under discussion. And Indian state cannot use religious (islamic)grammar of diplomacy.
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Ishaan Tharoor
Ishaan Tharoor@ishaantharoor·
Not sure I understand this claim. There are 200+ million Muslims in India, and you could argue that India’s ties to a number of Muslim-majority countries are even deeper than those of Pakistan
Policy Tensor@policytensor

I don’t think people quite understand Indian isolation and Pakistani centrality in this international game. The reason is very simple. Pakistan is an integral part of a cosmopolitan 2bn-strong Islamic world that stretches from Morocco to Indonesia; India is not.

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Majid Maqsood@majidmaqsood·
یہ لوگ صرف پیپلز پارٹی کے خلاف نہیں ، یہ سندھ کے بھی خلاف ہے۔ کبھی نہیں کہے گا سندھ 70 فیصد روینیو دیتا ہے اور اس کو ملتا کیا ہے۔ 18 ترمیم بھی ان کو پسند نہیں۔ ان کو ووٹ تو نہیں مل سکتے۔۔باقی پریس کانفرنس کرتے رہیں۔۔
Miftah Ismail@MiftahIsmail

پیپلز پارٹی کی 18 سال کی سندھ میں کارکردگی دیکھتے ہوئے یہ بات اب طے ہے کہ پیپلز پارٹی اور ترقی ایک ساتھ نہیں ہو سکتے

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Licypriya Kangujam@LicypriyaK·
Dear World, This is Not Ukraine- Russia War gunfight. This is present situation in Manipur, India at 10.37 pm (20th April 2026). 😢🙏💔 #ManipurViolence #Justice4Manipur
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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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Zahra Sabri
Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
@assedrehman @awami_rational @sabizak With all due respect, I suspect you may not have fully understood either of the works you reference here. Perhaps deeper, more careful study would be fruitful, if this is indeed a topic you wish to claim any level of expertise in.
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Zahra Sabri
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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Zahra Sabri
Zahra Sabri@ZSabri1·
@assedrehman @awami_rational @sabizak Lol, not colonial, if it's pre-colonial. Let's discuss it further only if you can read the linked article and academically refute the detailed evidence in it.
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Asad ur Rehman
Asad ur Rehman@assedrehman·
@awami_rational I never said i have some irrefutable evidence. But there are some debates on linguistic history (compratibe philolohy) in India. One should not act like a faceless propogandist. Anyways you are going on mute. Stop wasting my time.
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Awami Rational Party ☭
Awami Rational Party ☭@awami_rational·
@assedrehman And your answer is a 'logical fallacy', go to libgen and pick up any dictionary of linguistics none of them will support your 'pasandeeda' theory and it is simple as that ! If some day there is 'sufficient' evidence then you will find the your 'pasandeeda' answer
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Asad ur Rehman@assedrehman·
@ZSabri1 @awami_rational @sabizak It has been the case but most recent tome on the topic by Manan Asif , questions this binary and depict Hindustan as a diverse space using Frishta’s history that was written in Deccan. The binary is itself according to him a colonial construct.
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Awami Rational Party ☭
Awami Rational Party ☭@awami_rational·
@assedrehman @ZSabri1 @sabizak Shared roots don't change languages families; if a question appears in an undergraduate class asking to classify a language your "personal" options can get somebody flunked in an exam ! That's something you don't understand, neem-hakeem party
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Asad ur Rehman
Asad ur Rehman@assedrehman·
@ZSabri1 @awami_rational @sabizak Al-arbaic has nothing to do with any discussion here. Arabic is medieval period we are talking about and discussing even pre-anceint period. I have told you there is a substrate of Pre-Munda type, a continuity of pre-Aryan sign systems.
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Asad ur Rehman
Asad ur Rehman@assedrehman·
@awami_rational @sabizak @ZSabri1 There is a whole section , greater Panjab, where he is referring to the presence of a Munda substrate. Lets first establish this fact that a non- aryan, non- dravidian substrate existed in Rig Veda. Only then we can take the next step.
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Awami Rational Party ☭
Awami Rational Party ☭@awami_rational·
@assedrehman @sabizak @ZSabri1 Your own self-supposed theories don't mean anything, do research and publish your papers they will get peer reviewed and then we can discuss that bit ! Otherwise your own conjectures mean nothing whatsoever
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Asad ur Rehman
Asad ur Rehman@assedrehman·
@awami_rational @sabizak @ZSabri1 Simdhi, Punjabi are not proto-Indian aryan languages rather they closely resembles with Austro-Asiatic family. We have no idea what non-Arya non- Brhamin, non- Sanskrit speaking people called these lands. We need to read all these naming systems critically not dogmatically.
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Awami Rational Party ☭
Awami Rational Party ☭@awami_rational·
@assedrehman @sabizak @ZSabri1 Tu bhai Sindh aasman se tapka hay phir ?! The region was called Sindh (not saying that whole Pakistan was called Sindh) and most proto-Indo-Aryan languages (maai baap of Sindhi, Punjabi, Seraiki etc) have the word Sindhu afaik
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Asad ur Rehman
Asad ur Rehman@assedrehman·
@essel1 India , a Greek translation of Hindu ( already an Avestan translation of Sanskrit of Sindhu) was a name given to areas stretched around the banks of Sindhu river and its tributeries. British never invented the name.
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Asad ur Rehman
Asad ur Rehman@assedrehman·
@awami_rational @sabizak @ZSabri1 It was Sindhu in Sanskrit which had already become Hindu in Old Persian. Seen from this perspective Sindh and Hind are not different but spatial sign of same places.
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Asad ur Rehman
Asad ur Rehman@assedrehman·
@omarali50 @MsControversy11 I can't say what is inside the minds of powerful people. Apprathely, strategic elites of both counteries are essentially chauvinistic and comparator. On societal level there is not extraordinary hatred. This over emphasis on hatred is an act to dehumanise Pakistanis.
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omar ali
omar ali@omarali50·
That is not what I mean.. there is renaissance of local identities because over time local peasants have joined the elite and while early adopters frequently gave up their own language, next generation is looking to reconnect, etc, but the country exists at many levels simultaneously.. at the level of geopolitical obsession, it is definitely obsessed with India and not just obsessed with them, still determined to change borders if possible.. that ambition drives every other aspect of foreign policy.. and that assumption itself is a problem.. even though India is heterogeneous and frequently badly run, it is a huge subcontinental power and it is not likely that we will obtain Kashmir from them (not to speak of even more fantastical ambitions), so this obsession has shut the doors to rational economics and makes peace (and hence development) difficult in our corner of South Asia...
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