Didar Ali

Our youth must always be at the forefront of movements for change." - Che Guevara

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Quienes consideran que ondear la bandera de un Estado es “incitar al odio”, o han perdido el juicio o han sido cegados por su propia ignominia. Lamine solo ha expresado la solidaridad por Palestina que sentimos millones de españoles. Otro motivo más para estar orgullosos de él.

Gwadar University Vice Chancellor Dr. Abdul Razzaq Sabir and Pro Vice Chancellor Dr. Syed Manzoor Ahmed have reportedly gone missing while travelling from Gwadar to Quetta, raising serious concerns about their safety and whereabouts. Via @baluchexpress

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

Lit Theory with a focus of gender and an anthropology course on gender, what use are these when IBA’s faculty housing kicked out a female staff member and still refuses to acknowledge wrongdoing

A state that claims to believe in democracy should never be frightened by peaceful political participation. But in Pakistan, the reality is the opposite. Today, even attending a peaceful public gathering as a supporter of Baloch rights is being treated as a crime. The recent conditions attached to Aurat March Karachi clearly expose the mindset of the authorities. The issue is no longer about maintaining law and order; it is about controlling narratives and isolating every voice that speaks about Balochistan. The state wants platforms, protests, and public spaces to exist only under silence and obedience. The constitutional rights to freedom of speech and peaceful protest in Pakistan are increasingly being reduced to mere words on paper. Instead of protecting these rights, the state has imposed restrictive conditions that make organizing protests difficult and, in many cases, impossible. This not only undermines fundamental freedoms but also reflects a broader pattern of controlling and silencing human rights voices. When individuals or groups fail to comply with these restrictive conditions, they are often subjected to arrests, harassment, surveillance, and intimidation. For years, the Baloch people have been subjected to enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions, media censorship, and collective punishment. Families searching for their loved ones are harassed instead of being heard. Women demanding justice are threatened instead of protected. Students, activists, writers, and political workers are constantly profiled as enemies simply for speaking about human rights. What is happening today against BYC is part of the same larger policy. Peaceful activism is deliberately being criminalized because the movement has exposed realities that the state wants hidden. From fabricated cases and forced press conferences to surveillance and intimidation, every tactic is being used to break the morale of activists and disconnect them from public spaces. The decision to label organizations such as the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) and Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) as proscribed is therefore deeply questionable. BYC is a peaceful political and human rights movement that has consistently raised its voice against enforced disappearances, human rights violations, and state repression in Balochistan through political and constitutional means. Yet, despite the absence of any transparent legal process proving BYC to be an anti-state organization, its leadership has faced imprisonment under fabricated FIRs, while activists and members have been subjected to enforced disappearances, harassment, and extrajudicial violence. No court of law has publicly established BYC as a violent or anti-state organization. Despite this, peaceful political activism and demands for justice are increasingly being treated as threats rather than democratic rights. The attempts to ban, isolate, and criminalize Organization like BYC reflect a broader fear of organized political consciousness, public mobilization, and collective resistance among oppressed nations. The state continues to fail in understanding one thing: movements built on the pain, memory, and resistance of people cannot be erased through notifications, restrictions, bans, or threats. Every attempt to suppress peaceful voices only strengthens public awareness about the injustices taking place in Balochistan and other marginalized regions. The fear shown towards BYC today is itself an acknowledgment that the movement has become impossible to ignore. A peaceful movement demanding dignity, justice, constitutional rights, and an end to enforced disappearances should not threaten any democratic state. The fact that it does reveals the depth of the crisis itself. These actions are ultimately attempts to silence political awareness, suppress dissent, and weaken the collective voice of oppressed nations. However

Stay strong @AuratMarchKHI Stay strong @SammiBaluch Stay strong @BalochYakjehtiC Stay strong @MahrangBaloch_ Together, we will face these oppressors, and together, we will defeat them.

If @AuratMarchKHI claims it has not agreed to authoritarian demands, it should make it loud & clear that it will not follow any of them. There should be no ifs and buts. Let’s invite BYC and other groups that govt has banned. Let’s speak up for @MahrangBaloch_ and other leaders.

I support the Aurat March & always have. I support the BYC & always have. Neither is a secret. Genuine question: how can I march with one if the state does not allow the other to participate? How can I march for women's rights if Baloch women are not allowed to march?

I traveled to Shiite villages in Pakistan’s Kohat, where +900 people from the area alone were deported from UAE since mid-April—without their belongings or any official explanation—because of their faith. Latest with @ElianPeltier & @viviannereim. Gift link in the next tweet.

Resisting US imperialism/Zionism is an urgent political & moral imperative, but that cannot entail looking away from authoritarianism at home. Imperialism produces & empowers monstrous states. Political & moral consistency means connecting & opposing all its destructive layers.

Today its 106 days of illegal incarceration thru a sham trial & illegal conviction for @ImaanZHazir & @AdvHadiali. It has never been abt justice, law or due process; it's always been abt vengeance. #ReleaseImaanAndHadi

HRCP is alarmed by the arrest of several political workers in Gilgit-Baltistan protesting the continued detention of Ehsan Ali, chairperson of the Awami Action Committee, and the detention of at least two Sindhian National Congress workers, including Rizwan Memon, in Hyderabad. The suppression of peaceful dissent has become a knee-jerk reaction on the part of the state and raises serious concerns about due process and the abuse of public order laws. The authorities must release all those detained for peaceful protest and refrain from criminalising dissent.

‘They could have chosen dialogue over violence.’ Is your definition of ‘dialogue’ different for Sindh than it is for Dubai?

HRCP strongly condemns the arrest of several organisers and volunteers of @AuratMarchKHI from outside the Karachi Press Club, where they were scheduled to address a press conference. This incident is not isolated overreach but rather part of a broader and deeply troubling pattern: the systematic denial of public space to citizens seeking to articulate their rights. The rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression are constitutionally guaranteed. Preventing citizens, particularly women and marginalised groups, from even convening a press conference reflects an increasingly repressive approach to governance, where dissent is treated as a threat rather than a democratic necessity.

Glad @BBhuttoZardari is upset about the way @AuratMarchKHI was treated yesterday, but this anger is a ruse; Sindh police has been obediently doing their masters' bidding by brutally repressing peaceful protesters for years now. He's only embarrassed when the elite take notice.

Protest in Aliabad, Hunza demanding release of Ehsan Ali Advocate ended after police action; several detained. Sit-in led by families of detainees, joined by political workers & civil society. Reports say Tahseen Javed Mehmoodi, Suhail & Fazal among those arrested.

Marked as equals Wah @arifanoor72. Also, please read the wheel of time. dawn.com/news/1997643

Peoples party’s democracy at display. Sheema Kirmani is 75 years old, one of the most respected woman artist in the country is being treated as if she’s a criminal. She was merely there for a press conference organised by @AuratMarchKHI

10 killed in Karachi by heatwave They died due to climate change and Envicreting every surface of the city Let’s not be passive about this