Tariq Siddique

@awaissaleem77 @AsadAToor How subject his claims were.

“A family friend” doesn’t represent “a significant segment” of the diaspora in general by any stretch of the imagination. At best, his/her opinion is limited to their social circle.

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@AuthorGFAllen Yes. Peter Lynch.

Have you ever finished a book and thought, “Okay, I’m reading everything this person writes”?

@sarataseer Ready to apologize for this petting tweet? Show some grace like your graceful father.

What is the height of peanut Shabby Sharif ?

@ikhtiarwali This was the best you could respond with?

Sara If you look in the mirror, you’ll end up meeting a chimpanzee. You better keep your mouth shut otherwise kids may visit you at Lahore zoo, پھر مفت کی مونگ پھلی اور گنڈیریاں کھاتی رہو۔

@saeedimrankhan بھائی جان۔ خبر پوری پڑھ لیں۔

عمران خان ملائیشیا کے دورے پر جانا تھا لیکن سعودی دباؤ پر نہ جا سکے کیونکہ سعودیہ سے معاشی مفادات جڑے تھے، اس بنیاد پر عمران خان کو کمزور وزیراعظم کہا گیا پاکستان نے سوڈان اور لیبیا سے دفاعی سامان بیچنے کی ڈیل کی لیکن اب سعودی دباؤ پر پیچھے ہٹ گیا ہے، اب حکومت، اسٹیبلشمنٹ بے اختیار، کمزور اور کٹھ پتلی ہیں یا نہیں؟ اب سعودی دباؤ نظرانداز کر کے دکھائیں

@KlasraRauf @HamidMirPAK Meaning, he asking you for an advice and not Hamid Mir is okay 👌

Being my senior, @HamidMirPAK sb in my profession, he should have been on front seat. I am feeling a bit of embarrassment to be placed on front seat and Mir sb on back seat 😬

Pakistan quietly holding some of the world’s oldest stories.

@cutest_animal1 Good for exercise.

永遠に続く追いかけっこ

چند سال پہلے میں نے کراچی سے اسلام آباد واپسی کی فلائٹ لی۔ لیٹ تھا، لیکن تقریباً وقت پہ پہنچا۔ سنٹر سیٹ ملی۔ سانس پھولی تھی کیونکہ دوڑنا پڑا۔ ونڈو سیٹ سے میری طرف پانی کی بوتل کے ساتھ ہاتھ بڑھا اور آواز آئی، پانی پی لیں۔ میں نے sunglasses اپنی آنکھوں سے اوپر سر پہ کیں اور دیکھا کے میرا جی تھیں۔ میں نے شکریہ ادا کیا۔ میرے تعارف کے بعد PTV انڈین میڈیا اور فلم انڈسٹری کے موضوع پہ پُورا رستہ بہت اچھی گفتگو ہوئی۔ احساس ہوا کے مِیرا فلم اور شوبز کی ماہر ہیں۔ اُس گُفتگو سے میں نے بہت کچھ سیکھا۔ اُنکی بہت سی باتوں سے معصومیت عیاں تھی۔ وہ ناصرف ظاہری طور پہ بلکہ دل کی بھی خوبصورت ہیں۔ جیسے ہم سب کی ذاتی زندگی میں اتار چڑھاؤ لگے رہتے ہیں، لیکن ہم اچھائی کی جہد میں مگن بھی نظر آتے ہیں، مِیرا بھی ہم جیسی ہیں۔ ہم انسان ہیں، غلطیاں کرنا ہماری فطرت ہے۔ اللّٰہ پاک رحیم ہے، پردے ڈالنے والی ذات ہے اور وہ اپنے اُن بندوں کو بڑا پسند کرتا ہے جو اُس کے ڈالے پردوں کو قائم رکھیں۔ یقن نہیں آ رہا کے بھٹّی صاب ایسے اللّٰہ پاک کو ناراض کر سکتے ہیں۔

Ahaan. Any proof or reference?

Thing to include is that the male interviewer didn’t leave her alone (despite her exiting the interview with grace) even after the interview. He again tried to unilaterally blame her one way or another (in his defense). And the only thing which was not known whether the interview was paid or not, he so shamelessly even disclosed that. He tried whatever he could.

This platform, for me, is for discussions other than the one I am about write on - but the filth of this world has forced my hand, and I must speak! A woman sat down today to speak about her work. She was not permitted to do so. Meera, an actress who has spent her life inside the violent arithmetic by which our society judges women who make themselves visible, came to a podcast to discuss a film. The man across from her had other intentions. He did not ask about her craft, about the role she had laboured to inhabit, about the years of silence from which she had emerged. He asked about the men she had loved. He asked about the rumours that had circled her for decades like flies. He asked about money, about scandal, about old wounds he was pleased to pry open in front of an audience. When she stood to leave, he asked her, with the satisfaction of a man who believes he has earned the answer, which of the men in her past had hurt her more. This is not an aberration. This is the logic of the situation made visible. The public woman in our society occupies a peculiar and unbearable position. She has dared to appear, and by appearing she is understood, by the man, by the institution, by the crowd, to have relinquished the ordinary protections of privacy, interiority, selfhood. She becomes, in this interview and in a thousand others, the pure object: body to be looked at, history to be excavated, wound to be probed. Her work is incidental. Her person is raw material. What is demanded of her, in exchange for the permission to be seen, is that she answer. Endlessly. Submissively. With a smile where possible. The question itself is the instrument of her subjugation, not because any single question is unbearable, but because the structure of the interrogation presumes that her life is owed. That she has no ground on which to refuse. That the only virtuous woman is the transparent one. Meera refused. She did not refuse with violence. She did not refuse with tears. She refused with the quietest act available to a human being: she withdrew her consent, stood, and left. In that gesture she performed something philosophically precise, she insisted on being a subject, not an object, in a room constructed to make her the latter. Whatever else one might say about her life or her choices, this act was the act of a free person. It should be taught. And yet let us be unsparing. The interview is not a singular ugliness. It is the everyday condition rendered in high definition. The invasive question in the living room, the uncle who demands an account of your choices, the employer who believes your private life falls within his jurisdiction, the colleague whose smile arrives attached to an opinion you did not solicit, these are not separate phenomena. They share a single logic. The woman, in the eyes of the man shaped by this culture, is a creature who owes him access. Her boundary is read as provocation. Her silence as insult. Her refusal as an aberration to be corrected. The shame that ought to attach to such behaviour has been transferred, by an ancient sleight of hand, to the woman who resists it. I will not pretend any of this is being reformed from within. It is not. The men who authored the arrangement are not rewriting it. What is changing, and this is the one thing I can say without qualification, is that women are no longer waiting. They are leaving husbands who diminish them. They are declining marriages that were once obligatory. They are building lives, economic and emotional, that do not pivot on male approval. They are saying, in a thousand small and irreversible gestures, that they will not return to the old arrangement. This is not the whole of liberation. Liberation is never a gift, never a decree, never a finished accomplishment. It is a practice, repeated daily, against a structure that reconstitutes itself the moment you turn away. The woman who refuses today will be met tomorrow by the same question in new clothes. The work, then, is to make refusal constant, to normalise it so thoroughly that no man of any rank, in any room, in any relationship, can ask the invasive question without meeting the resistance it deserves. What Meera did should be ordinary. It should be the baseline. A woman should be able to say I will not answer, and have the room fall into a respectful silence, rather than require the cameras to catch her at her most composed before the world consents to believe she was wronged. Until that is true, we must all learn to walk out. I salute her.

@ashoswai Sorry to see this catching fire.

Modi was expected to inaugurate this oil refinery in Rajasthan, India, tomorrow.

@KhawajaMAsif Khawaja sb, too bad that you endorsed a claim which turned out to be untrue. Given that it originated from a political rival of Modi govt, it would have been better to verify it first before forming an opinion or endorsing it.

India was overrated, no worries just price or status correction.

Dubai’s Global Village is back with a bang. Weather is still nice and it’s almost end of April.

@ashoswai Iran is playing hardball again.

Pakistan tightens security & gets hotels ready; US planes have landed in Islamabad but not Vance; Iran says its negotiators not traveling to Pakistan; Trump says a deal will be signed tonight. Iran is playing chess, and Trump is a terrible poker player.

@faisal_parla Didn’t get it. Perhaps try this in easy English.

@mtariqsiddique Boss, do you think it was worthwhile/affordable for us to sign on to a deal which funded by party that reneged leaving us 1.5 billion short, and a pissed off gulf country that supports another proxy. Selling weapons is also sovereignty, and losing contracts due to donors is bad.

Supposedly $4.5 billion worth arms deals to Sudan and Libya are no longer happening because Saudi told Pakistan to back off. Pakistan’s sovereignty has always had limitations but it doesn’t get yanked around this so easily, so publicly.

@AdityaRajKaul Saudi Arabia or an Indian journalist and Modi’s diehard based out of Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Arabia shutting down propaganda against India’s NSA Ajit Doval by usual suspects.

@ImranRiazKhan Wah kia baat hai. Buhat barray insan niklay aap you.

2: Mansoor Ali Khan is better than me. 🙏🏻