You can't install freedom simply by choice.
You can't take people ripe for dictatorship, kill off the present dictator and tell them to "go, be free". They will clamor for a new dictator.
Even if they sincerely want freedom, they can't have it without necessary intellectual base Existentialist philosophy, delves into the nature of freedom and the existential challenges it poses. They say freedom means making own choices & Purpose and individuals must face the anxiety and responsibility that come with it that not every1 can handle.

My contention is that “collaboration between local body, provincial and federal can be a great outcome for karachi”

https://twitter.com/AajKamranKhan/status/1669294941397303299

Of course, that’s your contention. You just got finished reading some Irish Political history, probably “Party Politics in a New Democracy” by Michael Laffan. You are gonna be convinced of that until next month you read "Competitive Authoritarianism” by Steven Levitsky

Based on my long career as Server @ Wendys I have learned that it is very difficult to identify winners in corporate world but its really easy to identify losers. They all have 1 common attribute and that is they manipulate KPIs aka performance management numbers. 🧵👇 Story is almost always same; Company business is going down but management can’t show this to shareholders as don’t want to get fired. In absence of good governance to catch this, Mgmt is incentivized to manipulate number to show rosy picture of company’s performance.

This is actually such an important statement by @PresOfPakistan i am really impressed by his empathy. I ll not pile on what Sikander already said but there is this KDrama "Heavenly Idol" that reminds me of this entire interaction 🧵👇

https://twitter.com/SikanderFayyaz/status/1659244553948233729

A poor kid stumbles into church and knockdown something.
Cleric Screams:"You lowly Thing How dare you step into shrine"
Pontifex:"Enough"
Cleric : "It must be descendant of "The Evil One's" Servants
Ponntifx: "They are all people of lord, We lost them coz we failed to protect em

I 100% agree with it. External economic pressures that were easing since November 2022 have started to change it course and i expect next leg higher or complacency( minimum) to start now for next 3 months minimum. Time for financial predictions that never correct !🧵👇

https://twitter.com/AliKhizar/status/1659187226910097409

Dollar was on decline since October 2022... Now its going to change its direction and going to go up. Why ? Next !

Infighting between PTI & Military will bring nothing but disaster to Pakistan. This playbook is reminiscent of 1971.
Continuation of This policy will bring disaster to Pakistan but will only serve PDM that have no stake in Pakistan
Imran Khan ( Probably last speech pre-arrest) Imran Khan also highlights past incidents where he managed to avoid direct conflict between Protestors and Law enforcing Agencies including Rangers / Police. Restate that PTI have no history of iota of militia in past 27 years

Now that Fear-mongering is at peak in Pak. Let me take this opportunity to explain why this ll lead to large scale alienation in society. There is plenty of scholarly material on this subject but i ll try to summarize it and ll explain why this is extremely damaging for Pak 🧵👇 Fear --> Paranoia --> Alienation A vision cycle that feeds on itself until it becomes a unstable bomb that devour everything. outcome is any1 guess from Mass shooting to suicide, From bomb blast to complex behavioral changes such as LGBTQ spectrum stuff

There is an old Chinese idiom “南橘北枳” and it translates to “Southern orange and northern trifoliate”. Its origin is that Yanzi found that tangerines grown south of the Huai River become mandarin(sweet) oranges, while those grown in the north become trifoliate (sour) oranges. This expression is used to express that even same thing can change and produce totally opposite outcome when in different environment.
Videos I am watching recently in which our law enforcement agencies are treating women, families & General public are heart ranching.

MNS have been given extremely difficult task to face IK. A man her father, Zardari and uncle couldn’t tame along with help of 2 Religion personalities from Pindi. MNS single handedly kept PML N alive even after poor performance of SS gov. This is what she needs to do ahead. 🧵👇 1⃣· MNS should force SS to go against SC Judgment for election. Even if SS gets disqualified, this is his mess anyway in governance and he should own it. Playing victim card is least SS should do for MNS to let her lead election campaign.
Was SS setting MNS for failure?

Very nicely put by @HNadim87 .
Entire modern western democratic structure & rule of law finds its roots in work of Thomas Hobbs, John Locke & Jean Jacques. This will be a long 🧵 but I will try to make it worth your time.

https://twitter.com/HNadim87/status/1636255482372591617

Hobbes described a society without rules as living in a “state of nature” ( State of Jungle where might is right). In such a state, people would act on their own accord, without any responsibility to their community. Pakistan is clearly in state of jungle as per Hobbes criteria:

My Whole life I debated with people from Khi. Quetta Waziristan saying that them blaming Army for issues in their vicinity is not justified. Responsibility lies with civil institutions to ensure fix and army is trying to salvage situation.
Boy I was sooo wrong. After watching same episode repeat in Panjab now, I have understood their modus operandi.
•Facilitate a weak politician to bring him in power
•Use coercive tactics to silence opposition
•If don’t work Use violence or state machinery
•Take advantage with zero blame

This PTI funding Prohibited Funding Case verdict is one of the most autistic verdicts I have ever seen in my life.
If you were living under the rock and have no idea what it’s about,
Don’t worry I will try to help you.
🧵👇 But before we go into verdict, let me give you some background.
Just like any other Ex of IK this case also revolves around an Ex of IK named Mr. Akber Sher Babar who left party due to differences with IK and decided to file a petition against PTI in 2014.

Have you ever wondered:
🟡Why Fireflies’ glows in synchronizations with each other?
🟡Why crowd/audience always clap in sync?
🟡Why Bridge wobbles when you and your friends walk in sync

A 🧵👇 on Synchronization (Not Cal Jung’s), Major trend shifts in Pakistan & Phase-Shift Spontaneous synchronization is observed in nature, whereby a population of oscillating units, which have diverse natural frequencies and are in weak interaction with one another, evolves to spontaneously exhibit collective oscillations at a common frequency.
explanation 👇:

In 1944, the CIA ( Previously OSS) put together a secret field manual for sabotaging enemy organizations. It included “simple acts” of destruction with minimal “danger of injury, detection, and reprisal,” that could be executed by “ordinary citizens.”
🧵👇 Each society, country or group with a combined purpose is an organization and life blood of that organization is “PRODUCTIVITY” – How effectively and efficiently they can achieve their objective. This manual was considered as effective at slowing down an organization’s output

Haven't slept well in a while. Cluster headaches are coming back.
Needed some sort of confidence and then found this message.
Slept like a baby for first time in 3 months!
🧵👇 G20 Meeting in Occupied Kashmir !!
I am sure our foreign minister and sole protector of our sovereignty who managed to get us out of FATF grey list in 2 weeks will be able to get venue changed.
At this point i am sure our enemies are very upset with this failure of theirs

Not going to lie, I am a bit hopeless these day about Pakistan. Longer it takes to resolve more permanent will be damage. Also, there is no will for course correction.
In Poker they call such player “Donkey” who plays his hand against the odds and doesn't fold poor hands.
🧵👇 In Poker there is a term EV or Expected Value. Ideally You can think of each hand / bet as an INDIVIDUAL decision point and goal is to only make those bets that have +EV (grows your EV) and avoid/Fold those hands where odds are against you or -EV (Decrease your EV)

This is an appreciation tweet for Miftah Ismail. In addition of getting policy instruction from VP of PML N (MNS) on twitter and doing market manipulation after working hours on weekend he has once again proved his mettle by providing an excellent budget. 🧵👇 I previously wrote a thread that kind of market manipulation and pump and dump going in Pakistan stock market is unprecedent and yet to no surprise no investigation has been initiated.
10% move in 60 Days Where ARR is 16% - 🍬🍬🍬Sweet!🍬🍬🍬

https://twitter.com/ghum_ri/status/1523911433129545728?s=20&t=ayi4fCx2j0K4E3uCOJmPEQ

In last week, I read statements of 2 strong men on sovereignty.
Both were trying to defend themselves in aftermath of decisions they took.
But What is Sovereignty?
Is Sovereignty bipolar (colony / Sovereign) as Putin said or is it a continuum?
Is Pakistan Sovereign? 🧵👇 Carl Schmitt declared, “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception”
Giorgio Agamben has described sovereignty as “a formal structure” that identifies “the very space in which the juridico-political order can have validity”. That space is defined as a “state of exception.”

In past few days I have seen so many shit takes on economy from Miftah Friends, PML N touts and so called financial reporters that I had to write this thread. It seems like all of these people got their finance / economic education from military academy.
A 🧵 to shut them all. Please stop using term “Mushkil Faisla” there is not even a decision.
You make a circus clown FM and ask him how to remove deficit, he will tell you increase prices and start selling things at cost + premium.
This could have been golden opportunity for Pak in IK hands.

I have a friend who always gets into car accidents at least once every three months. We thought problem was with her car or skills but actually root cause was her laziness.
She mismanages her time ➡️making her late ➡️road rush ➡️Accident
A 🧵 on IK's Mistakes and future strategy IK thinks that he is fighting robbers, actually he is fighting with terrorists who have taken Pakistan as a hostage.
Protocol and strategy of dealing with a robber / thief and a terrorist who have taken hostage are totally different and demands a complete re-haul of strategy.

Pakistan’s intelligentsia is one of the worst among world (which is already quite bad). They think we the people are morons and they can make us believe whatever they want us to believe.
A 🧵 on how Propaganda work, how to spot and how to save yourself and others.👇 Before we dive in let me say this. Technology (SM) have done more for democracy then any party / country in the world. Freedom of speech, exchange of view and speed of this is what scares intelligentsia. That’s why they are coming to “save you from misinformation” – 3 years