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Mar 5, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
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Thread on
Quetta, Naushki, Panjgur and now Peshawar: Pakistan's counter terrorism strategies
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Pakistan's alliance with the US after 9/11 also brought Islamabad to the limelight. As per policy makers, we had sacrificed thousands of lives in the past 20 years but in return we got just peanut.
Lets have a look how dangerous this peanuts is?
Feb 20, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Thread on PECA Act
I was one of those reporters who did witness parliamentary proceedings on the legislation process on Pakistan Electronic Crime Act (PECA). Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq had referred this bill to a standing committee of the house headed by Captain M Safdar. 1/14
In a haste, the son-in-law of PM Nawaz Sharif had sent back this to speaker to table this before the house. I'd covered all this in details for The Express Tribune. Despite strong opposition from than opposition PPP, PTI and MQM, PML-N didn't budge an inch.
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