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Basharat Issa
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Basharat Issa
@BasharatIssa
A rural soul wandering in the urban chaos | Alum @LSEAnthropology | Extremely unpopular opinions
Yasin Valley เข้าร่วม Nisan 2012
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Joined this app when it was a bird. It seems it has turned into a drone now.
#MyTwitterAnniversary

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@AliAhmed_learns Haven't been active here for a while. And seems it's getting worse here.
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@BasharatIssa Saw your tweet after an year.
Algorithm is cooked.
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Since Bacha Bazi in different parts of Pakistan was debated here, I posted this four years back about a similar culture in the otherwise highly exoticised Gilgit-Baltistan. There are literally local terms for it. It's the same or even worse in Chitral.
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There are literally subcultures of homosexuality in almost all the villages of Gilgit-Baltistan that nobody talks about and the whole society is hypocrite about this. This subculture includes but is not limited to rape, molestation, harassment and abuse based on revenge,
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@miryasirabbas @hashurtag Seriously??!! No man! That place is supposed to grow apples and apricots not drones!
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Dear Pakistan:
The biggest threat to critical infrastructure is now coming from new, asymmetric, kinetic weapons like drones. It is extremely important to now build new critical infrastructure in dense mountains, underground or under the seabed. And it is also very important to have V/SHORADs around critical infrastructure. Take it as a cost of construction moving forward and legislate it to become a part of official building code.
@CMShehbaz @OfficialDGISPR @MohsinnaqviC42 @TararAttaullah
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Quantitative analysis has taken over every discipline in the social sciences, and destroyed it.
Students of politics, psychology, even history, are asked to quantify their findings, by attaching some type of number to them (e.g., some inanity like '63% of women prefer men with a sense of humour').
It is made to look intelligent by calculating regression coefficients, plotting graphs, coming up with formulae using mutliple betas.
This has been deliberately - and successfully - pushed by American state-backed institutions - CCF, Ford Foundation, RAND, etc. [ref, Saunders (1999), Amadae (2003), Solovey (2013)] to counter theoretical social sciences, which were seen as dangers to capitalism and liberal democracy.
Imbecilic empiricism rules academia now.
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@ZarrarKhuhro If Afghanistan and Azerbaijan join it is PASTA
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Need a cool name for this possible alliance
Middle East Eye@MiddleEastEye
Turkey is lobbying to join a defence pact between Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan, a potential move that could create a new military bloc in the Middle East amid rising tensions in the Gulf and Iran middleeasteye.pulse.ly/xmoqp0wffl
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