Never thought I'd need to turn on the heater in April.
Yet, here I am!
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Umer Gilani
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Umer Gilani
@umerijazgilani
Lawyer. Writer.
Islamabad, Pakistan Katılım Kasım 2014
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Draft cleared by CCLC; aims to modernise regulation, boost competition, align sector with global standards
Read: profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2026/04/06/moc…
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No words for the ungodly cruelty of CDA making hundreds of families homeless in Saidpur & Bari Imam (most of them indigenous inhabitants of Islamabad) during one of the worst fuel & inflationary crises in Pakistani history. A feudal bureaucracy treating citizens like serfs.
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Anjuman-i-Tajran President said traders cannot be labelled as “thieves and robbers”. Barrister Gilani said arrests and registration of cases despite a judicial stay order fall under the contempt of court, adding that legal action could be initiated...
dawn.com/news/1988708/t…
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@Muhamma95093419 @bilalgilani Only a few got compensation. Most didn't.
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@umerijazgilani @bilalgilani Umar sb when these people got compensation and plots then why they are not leaving land ?
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In the event of war, public support among citizens matters a great deal in the information domain, both domestically and internationally. The view that the war situation works as a binding force. Here again, narrative building plays a pivotal role. For this, politicians and media personalities with vision and a democratic outlook can deliver. Let's hope we have a plan in case of any other misadventure by India. @IrshadSalim @MAliDurrani2 @fawadchaudhry @Dr_FirdousAwan @QamarKairaPPP @FarhatullahB
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Amazing.
A few years ago who would have thought about Pakistan being so relevant and important at world stage?
Seyed Abbas Araghchi@araghchi
Iran's position is being misrepresented by U.S. media. We are deeply grateful to Pakistan for its efforts and have never refused to go to Islamabad. What we care about are the terms of a conclusive and lasting END to the illegal war that is imposed on us. پاکستان زنده باد
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You CANNOT control inflation by incarcerating and terrorising naanbhais. Study basic economics.
Going after the wais a COLONIAL ERA practice. No place for this in a constitutional democracy. Especially an Islamic one, a religion whicu gives a place of dignity to traders.
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Yesterday, Islamabad Administration arrested dozens of Naanbais (bread-bakers) for the crime of selling bread above the government-fixed price. Despite a clear-cut stay order against this practice by Hon’ble Islamabad High Court.
Now addressing Press Conference against this.
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Civilian/political supremacy without rule of law and a culture of collegiate decision making
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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The post-secular future has arrived. The question is no longer: WHETHER religion will have a role in public life? The question is: WHAT KIND of religion will replace secularism.
Important to strive for a compassionate, inclusive and life-affirming version of religion
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10
I believe that Britain has to be far more muscular in standing up for our Christian identity - just as Islamic countries protect their own way of life. Don’t apologise, or appease, or compromise. This is our country, and we will do things our way. Don’t like it? Leave.
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سبحان اللہ
ArchaeoHistories@histories_arch
The samosa is one of the most eaten street foods on the planet.... The manuscript is called the Ni'matnama, sometimes translated as the Book of Delights, and it was written between 1501 and 1510 for the Sultan of Mandu, a medieval sultanate in central India. It is not just a cookbook. It is an illustrated record of royal pleasures, covering recipes for sherbet, betel preparations, perfumes, and food across dozens of dishes. After the fall of Mandu to the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1562 the manuscript passed to the Adil Shahi Sultanate of Bijapur, then into the hands of Tipu Sultan of Mysore, and finally after the British stormed Srirangapatnam in 1799 it was taken to England, where it now sits in the collections of the British Museum, translated into English by scholar Nora Titley. The samosa recipe inside it reads as follows. "Mix together well-cooked mince with the same amount of minced onion and chopped dried ginger, a quarter of those, and half a measure of ground garlic, and having ground three measures of saffron in rosewater, mix it with the mince together with aubergine pulp. Stuff the samosas and fry them in ghee." The manuscript then adds, with what feels like genuine enthusiasm across five centuries, that whether made from thin coarse flour bread or from fine flour bread or from uncooked dough, any of the three can be used for cooking samosas, and they are delicious. A 500-year-old recipe with a 500-year-old review attached. The filling is not what you would expect from a modern samosa. Saffron ground in rosewater, aubergine pulp, mince, and garlic, fried in ghee. It is richer, more perfumed, and more obviously courtly than the street food version the world knows today. I am recreating it next week, and I cannot wait to show you what a royal Mughal samosa actually tasted like. Stay tuned! © Eats History #archaeohistories
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اسلام آباد ہائیکورٹ کے سٹے آرڈر کے باوجود ڈائریکٹر DMA کی جانب سے غریب ریڑھی بانوں کی ریڑھیاں اٹھا لی گئیں اور متعدد ریڑھی بانوں کو تھانے منتقل کر دیا۔
جس میں ایک 70 سالہ بزرگ بھی شامل ہیں،جو اپنی 6 بیٹیوں کے واحد کفیل ہیں اور محنت مزدوری کر کے اپنے گھر کا نظام چلا رہے تھے۔
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Desis resisting capitalism in their own way.
Syed Rizwan Mehboob@syedrizwanmehb1
Not all heroes wear capes Siddique is forest labourer who lives next to Chir jungle with a small terraced field as his sole livelihood His wheat crop is ready but jungle peacocks daily party on tender crop. He never stops them & is like صا حب، ا پنے نصیب کا کھا تے ہیں Salute
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"The only sustainable way to reduce backlog of cases is to create disincentivizes for those who file false and frivolous claims - and incentives for parties with a weak case to concede early. No serious progress has been made in that direction", Gilani observes."
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Quote by @HasnaatMalik
in @etribune today
"lawyer Umer Gilani says that the reshaping of the judiciary's topmost tier by the 26th and 27th Amendments has not yielded any significant improvement in the expeditious disposal of cases..."
tribune.com.pk/story/2600439/…
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If you are in Islamabad, it's time to see
Gul i Nishter bloom (Erythrina sp) along Blue Area Service Roads (especially in front of Polyclinic)
@CDAthecapital
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