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28 May, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Pak not once elected Mullahs to power. Whereas India despite being a secular state, ruled by the(so-called)secular party for over 50-years is a Hindu Rashtra.
India's forefathers used secularism as a tool to subjugate others, Jinnah called their bluff & proven right time & again.
Congress&BJP both adhere to "Secularism" but both use it as a tool to keep Muslim,non-muslim and scheduled casts subjugated.

BJP membership form requires the taking of a pledge that contains the line: "I subscribe to the concept of secular state & nation not based on religion."
It's just that BJP is more vocal about 'Hindu Rashtra' than congress. During Congress tenured, there were scores of state-sponsored pogroms not only against Muslims but also against Sikhs killing thousands.
India has a population of ~ 200 million Muslims approx 15% of its total population. There was not a single Muslim chief minister in India in 2021: the last one having lost her office with the dismissal of the Jammu and Kashmir government.
Outside Kashmir, no Muslim chief minister of a state has even completed a full term since independence. India’s 200 million Muslims have been kept marginalized in politics.

There is no Muslim minister in fifteen of India’s twenty-eight states. In the cabinets of ten of..
..the remaining thirteen states, there was a single Muslim minister.
India’s Scheduled Castes are about 16% of the population and are given 84 reserved seats in the Lok Sabha. The Scheduled Tribes, which are 8% of the population, get 47 reserved seats.
Muslims have none and are the most under-represented section of India in Parliament.
Of 303 Lok Sabha members of parliament, not one is a Muslim. There has been no Muslim representative of any party from Gujarat in the Lok Sabha since 1985.

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26 May
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NCOC ensured the availability of healthcare resources, additional oxygen capacity along with its improved supply are ensured, hence we didnt see the same desperate situation in our hospitals as we saw in India. ImageImage
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It's been 15 months to the pandemic, not 24, however an underdeveloped..
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Maryam, Ahsan Iqbal & journos jumped in. Asad Ali Toor blamed agencies & likened the situation worse than IoK.
If FIA opens the cases against Asad Ali Toor and all those that ran malicious campaigns against Govt and Army, what will these intellectuals and HR activists say?

There is no freedom of speech, we can't cR|tiCiz3 the "powers that be" fascist state etc etc.
Just to share how strong their campaign was:

#BringBackSarmadSultan was the top trend, Amnesty Asia from it's verified account tweeted about it (not surprising when ppl like Ammar Ali Jan r involved), articles are written in int publications such as BBC & Independent Urdu
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پرسوں کہہ رہے تھے کہ سرمد بالکل سہی ہے اور نجی مصروفیت کی وجہ سے اکاؤنٹ بند کیا ہے۔

کل کہا کہ سرمد کو ایجینسیوں نے اٹھا لیا ہے۔

اور آج کی کہانی ہے کہ سرمد پر قاتلانہ حملہ ہوا ہے جس میں سرمد کو کچھ نہیں ہوا لیکن بھائی زخمی ہوا ہے۔ Image
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What is the process of approval/rejection of economic/trade-related decisions?

1/ Summary is presented in ECC [Economic coordination committee] that has over 12 members. FM chairs the meeting.

2/ ECC may approve or reject the summary.
3/ If approved by ECC, summary is thn presented to the cabinet. As the cabinet is the final approval authority/forum bcoz technically cabinet is the govt.

4/ Based on the collective wisdom, the cabinet takes the decision based on political, economic, and diplomatic conditions.
5/ Once the Federal Cabinet approves the summary it's then implemented.

ECC & cabinet meet separately every week. Many summaries get approved or rejected. For example, this summary was approved by the ECC but rejected by the cabinet.
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8 Mar
1/
"if Balochistan was given its due share of development, BLA would’ve failed to attract locals."

This is not a correct assessment, before I explain why, let me share few facts about Balochistan & its insurgency.

Out of 33 Balochistan districts, only 3 districts r problematic.
2/
Keep in mind, Balochistan forms 44% of the total area of Pakistan with the scarce population stretched across the rugged areas. There are not more than ~ 1500 militant fighters in Balochistan.

Now compare this strength with TTP's that had thousands of ferocious fighters..
3/
..at their disposal spread across Pak but concentrated in tribal districts. If Pak Army can annihilate TTP, how hard it's for Army to do the same with BLA?

Why is that Army is unable to put an end to these few militant groups in Balochistan?
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1/
Unable to understand why Jiyalas get riled up when IK talks about Islam.

Islam was one of the central themes of Bhutto's1970 election campaign, fearing that socialism would be portrayed as a western idea, Bhutto always took care to talk about *Islamic* socialism. Image
2/
In a speech shortly after the creation of the PPP ZAB said:
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Gave '73 Constitution which is Islamic, then 2nd amendment.

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