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Apr 24

am surprised that IK's supporters should bemoan what they think Gen Bajwa did. they lament about how B could dictate to the PM. that's disingenuous. do they really believe, flying in the face of all evidence, that Bajwa did not actively arrange for Khan to form the govt in 2018?>

>did they write at the time that army has no business manipulating results or arranging civilian govts? no, they did not (neither did many others who are now unhappy with army's interference). personally, i have been (and remain) opposed to army's experimentation for decades.>

>it has served no political purpose and it has blunted the professional edge of the army. but i cannot, in all honesty, be happy when the army ousts X govt (which we don't like) and weep when it does the same to Y govt (which we like).>

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@ejazhaider

Apr 18

i don't like predictions, esp., in Byzantium politics. if IK had completed his tenure, in a free/fair election, the PMLN would have won. NOW, in a free/fair election, Khan will win. whether elections are free/fair is another debate. fate vs freedom; agency vs structural bind!>

i know, at this point, it isn't helpful to talk about IK; for years i have been critical of his approaches; still am. but, rightly or wrongly, he has caught people's imagination. make no mistake. even more, he has wrested space from the army on the issue of sovereignty, a first.>

> that's no mean feat. MNS tried it but failed because he is perceived to be... well...
IK makes it tick and stick. rightly or wrongly is not the issue here.
my point is: analyses here, being partisan, are getting it wrong.
dissociate and look at the bigger picture.

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@ejazhaider

Aug 14, 2021

in all the discussions about #Afghanistan and Pakistan's independence, we seem to have forgotten about Occupied and Illegally Annexed Kashmir. this is what is happening: school teachers are told that if they don't hoist the Indian flag tomorrow, they will lose their jobs> #IOJK

@POTUS

>shopkeepers have been directed to not shut down tomorrow or their shops will be seized. we've already seen how the #Indian police & #army have been breaking into peoples' shops & forcibly opening them. @POTUS talks about democracy and democratic values. here's a test case. #IOJK

@POTUS

>@POTUS has to decide. is the talk about democracy and rights mere rhetoric when it comes to a 'strategic partner' or will be walk the talk? #India #Occupation #IOJK

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@ejazhaider

Oct 15, 2020

so, lemme come to something really funny, since Indians have become really bleeding-heart concerned about Uighur Muslims. This is, of course, notwithstanding how they kill Muslims in occupied J&K and elsewhere in India.>

>Libs of all hues, including (actually esp.,) in Pakistan, have suddenly embraced the Uighur cause. a few things are of course being conveniently forgotten here: one, Kashmir is a disputed and occupied territory, as per both UNSC Resolutions as well as bilateral arrangements>

>and Pakistan is a party to that despite; Xinjiang is Chinese territory, just like Assam and the Red Corridor where Indian security forces oppress, capture, torture, kill people. We don’t mention that because that’s Indian territory>

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@ejazhaider

Sep 7, 2019

India's #VikramLander failure is being debated here depending on which angle one is taking: consider.
1, as a scientific/tech achievement, final-phase failure aside, it is a big leap and shows #ISRO in a good light; 2, it also shows that #India is producing an impressive array>

> of scientists and engineers; that should be a matter of concern for us; 3, space is one of the frontiers in future wars, which will be tech-, and capital-intensive, not labour-intensive; 4, we should take serious stock of the education we are imparting and whether we can keep>

> up or, better still, overtake. i don’t have to say what it means if we can’t…
now to the failure: we are adversaries; #Kashmiris are under lockdown and being oppressed. while we should never underestimate the adversary, there’s absolutely no reason why we shouldn’t be happy>

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