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Hasan Zaidi

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Oct 8, 2023

There are two main elements in the Hamas-led Palestinian action against Israel. The first, of course, is the moral one: you can’t keep inflicting oppression and injustice against a people forever; inevitably there will be a reaction. And it won’t necessarily be well-considered…>

…it can simply be an expression of desperation and frustration. Anyone willing to ignore this aspect and simply look at this as an unprovoked attack on Israel is either willfully ignorant or willfully duplicitous. Israel has been brutally killing and suppressing Palestinians…>

…- especially in the enclave of Gaza - for decades with the world, particularly the West looking away and not even trying to hold Israel accountable. What this shows clearly is that peace cannot be based on a foundation of injustice.

But there is another aspect to this which…>

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Hasan Zaidi

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Oct 24, 2022

@arsched

The unexpected death of anyone is tragic, and esp in circumstances as murky as the ones in which @arsched has died and they should be fully probed. I did not know him personally so cannot comment on his qualities as a son, husband, father or friend. But I was witness to his…>

…public fall as a journalist, so I find myself uncomfortable with the uncritical eulogies coming out for him. I know the usual tradition is that one should not speak ill of the dead and I don’t mean to cause hurt to his near and dear ones in their time of grief. But I think …>

…it’s also unfit not to recall that, as someone with a powerful media platform, Arshad Sharif often had no qualms in targeting marginalised communities, vilifying people with made up ‘facts’, labelling colleagues as traitors, and generally serving as a tool in the hands of …>

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Hasan Zaidi

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Jan 18, 2022

I don’t usually put out personal info on here but am doing so in hopes that it might offer some lessons to others.

End of Dec I woke up with a mild fever and just a very mildly scratchy throat. I’d felt very chilly at night. I immediately isolated myself in my room and only…>

…went out to get tested. The fever had gone by the afternoon and by nighttime the result of the PCR came back negative. I was of course relieved. Two days later and for about 2-3 days, I just felt a bit sluggish and sleepy, nothing else. Third day on I got headaches, which…>

…I sometimes get bec of overuse of screens (phone, computer etc) and I treated it the way I do with tension headaches. But fifth day my mother (80+) got a fever. Assuming it would also go away like mine, we waited a day. When the fever didn’t go the next day, we had…>

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Hasan Zaidi

@hyzaidi

Aug 15, 2021

26 runs. 2 wickets. #WIvPAK

Oh Hassan Ali 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ That’s the match I think.

Keeper catch near the boundary! Lol! Trust Pakistan to flub the easy and take the difficult ones! 17 runs, 1 wicket left!

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Hasan Zaidi

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Aug 15, 2021

Like so many others, I have been thinking a lot about what’s going down in Afghanistan, what it means for Afghanistan and for us in Pakistan. I have to admit that fast-moving events and a multitude of emotions do cloud clear analysis. So I allowed myself the time to step back…>

But I think things are becoming clearer to me. But before I come to my realisations, let me just reiterate where I’m coming from. I’m very critical of the Taliban worldview but having spent some time in Afghanistan towards the end of their last rule, I also feel I understand…>

…the tragic circumstances that gave birth to them. I am not one of those who believe they were a simple Pak proxy force and I found the narrative built up in the post-2001 world by the US and those it propped up in power to be self-delusional. They believed their own stories…>

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Hasan Zaidi

@hyzaidi

Aug 11, 2021

So apparently the closed door meeting yest by the army top brass with journos and others was intended to push for developing a narrative for the world re: Afghanistan. A few thoughts about what apparently transpired at the meeting…

1. Good luck trying to develop a credible narrative while beating down any voices of dissent within Pak media. Credibility is developed over years and years. No one will believe any narrative coming from the kind of toadies the establishment is fond of pushing within Pak. …>

… Incidentally, this is something that has been said again and again. But those in power forget again and again. They suddenly wake up at times of crises and realise that they need precisely the same credible voices they’ve been suppressing all this while. …>

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