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Aug 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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The head of @AlkhidmatOrg Abdul Shukoor speaking at a fundraiser for #PakistanFlood right now…

Some key points from his talk 👇🏽

The most important stage of the effort in terms of rescue may be winding down.

There is a need for a focus on relief…

To get an idea…
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…of the challenge, consider:

Burying the dead requires finding dry ground. In some cases people have to go many miles to find such ground.

Heart-rending situation wrt to vulnerable people, esp pregnant women.

Rescue boat overturned yesterday, with several fatalities…

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Priorities for Support to Flood Victims

1. Food above all is the need of the hour. Cooked food is needed but is complicated because of perishability.

2. Clean drinking water

3. Medicine - Al Khidmat is setting up 150 medical camps

4. Housing - maybe the hardest.

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Housing will be complicated because it will take till mid September for people to return to their “homes”. But there will be, in many cases, no home to go to—as so many have been washed away.

5. Livelihoods - those that depend on agricultural & livestock in dire straits…
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…given the quantum of livestock losses and how long it will take for water to clear.

Wheat sowing in Sindh for example, may become unlikely.

Amazing work by @AlkhidmatOrg.

Please keep 🤲🏽 and giving 💰.

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For the last several years, at least since 2014, ARY has been the unofficial spox of the military’s preferred national discourse.

During this same period, the largest news group & channel (Jang/Geo) & the widest read English paper (Dawn) have endured the wrath of… ⬇️
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Throughout there were two kinds of violations taking place.

One, constitutional.
Two, national interest.

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It also guarantees Pakistanis the freedom to have uninformed political preferences. ⬇️
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An absolutely devastating electoral defeat for PML-N in the one province it supposedly dominates.

Imran Khan now likely a juggernaut more powerful than he has ever been.

Hard to see how the government recovers from this.
But with this genuinely “neutral” process, the ground for a GHQ-Khan reconciliation is set.

Is a lame duck military leadership is now saddled with a lame duck coalition government?

Exhilarating political dynamics in the most vibrant Muslim majority democracy on the planet. 🇵🇰
Always too early to call time on anyone’s politics (and never safe)… but an interesting observation from @ejazhaider:

“sir, if PTI can trounce PMLN in the Punjab, i believe the PPP's (read: AAZ) days in Sindh are numbered too.”

Some food for thought for both PPP and PML-N.
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May 17
Supreme Court declares the votes of rebel MNAs to be invalid!

The honourable judges have spoken on the need for independent and coherent political parties!

Classic. 😐
As I said, the Supreme Court is now fully on the 18th amendment train, as far as the autonomy of political parties is concerned.

This is a major step in terms of the evolution of how parties are treated by the law and the law interpreters. Image
The non immediate implication of this decision is significant.

The 2006 Charter of Democracy was informed, in part, by repeated raids into the insides of party leadership cadres.

Everytime the deep state sought to alter the government of the day, it found willing partners…
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Apr 10
PTI protests this evening represents serious and profound challenges for Pakistanis invested in a federal, democratic, plural & solvent Pakistan.

Some quick takeaways for reflection ⬇️

1. Military intervention in politics produces unpredictable outcomes. IK is the 3rd. Stop

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2. Populist narratives like "imported government" or "foreign conspiracy" are inexpensive to deploy and almost impossible to contain once deployed. They have to be tackled head on. This requires relentless message discipline. Can a motley coalition produce this discipline?

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3. The immediate petroleum/gasoline price hikes that government must impose will trigger a wave of genuine discontent. This was a mine IK deliberately left behind for whoever came after him, but consider it blown up. The incoming govt needs to massively scale up BISP / Ehsaas.

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Apr 10
Some PTI power ⬇️ that merits the thoughtful and deep attention of GHQ, Shahbaz Sharif, and the PPP.

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The plan so far seems to be to delay the VNC.

PTI leaders should convince PM Khan to alter course & accept the inevitable VNC.

Government seems determined to bait the Opposition into a scenario in which voting will be delayed.

The Opposition MUST act w wisdom & patience.
On Geo News, speaking to @ayazakbar786, Sheikh Rasheed seems to be threatening the subversion of the entire system as the price for removing PM Khan.

For this, IK & PTI must be willing to push the country to violence, and the military leadership needs to be ready to step in.
In @AzazSyed interview of @QasimKhanSuri and later @FaisalJavedKhan w press, PTI relentlessly hammering away on patriotism vs treason.

Though entirely lacking any merit or evidence of course, it has already garnered significant traction in the discourse.

PTI’s strategy?

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