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Apr 8, 2022 • 34 tweets • 4 min read
PM IK address to the nation starting.
PM IK: I want to repeat the principles I had when I joined politics: khuddari, insaaf, falaahi riasat....
Apr 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Our editorial today: thenews.com.pk/print/948312-l…
"Last night’s course correction by the Supreme Court has hopefully finally laid to rest any debate about the doctrine of necessity, with the five-member bench clearly ruling that the constitution of Pakistan trumps all trump cards"
Apr 7, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Geo reporting that a unanimous decision is on its way.
VERDICT: The SC has said Dep Speaker Qasim Suri's ruling is unconstitutional.
Apr 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Bilawal Bhutto presser: I'm seeing a violent election if things are not settled properly now.
BBZ: this unconstitutional step must be reversed. We respect the SC....
Apr 5, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
SMQ having a meltdown on @GeoASKKS Accusing Geo of being the PML-N's mouthpiece. Pathetic. Cant answer a question so starts screaming bias. Literally has nothing to say to any serious question by Shahzeb.
SMQ running around in circles trying to figure out a way to ask a rather straightforward question by @shazbkhanzdaGEO
Mar 31, 2022 • 34 tweets • 4 min read
Prime Minister Imran Khan's address to the nation starting.
PM IK: I decided to go live bec Pakistan is at a defining moment. We have two options....
Mar 30, 2022 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
PDM presser. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui: '..history is witness to the fact that we have decided to go along with you in this working relationship not bec of individual or party interests but for the areas we represent and which need attention...'
Khalid Maqbool: 'I hope we start an era where political difference is not seen as animosity....'
Jan 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Nearly twenty people died just because they wanted a two-minute respite from the disaster our lives have become. They died in their cars, in the cold, with their families. There is no excuse. There can be no justification. This is not just a tragedy, this is criminal. #Murree
And this is #Murree. Not some godforsaken place where there are no amenities. What freakin tourism has the govt been talking about?
Apr 24, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Apologies in advance for this very long thread. But here goes: Anyone criticising the way the govt has handled or is handling the corona crisis is not looking to deprive poor people of their livelihood.>>
Let's see what's been happening: we don't have enough vaccines; but more than that we have not had a proper vaccine campaign. This is just fact. If we were to launch a proper vaccination campaign, we would also need the corresponding amount of vaccine shots>>
Apr 23, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
So NCOC pretty much doing what it has done till now. Honestly, this is criminal. The PM refuses to even entertain the idea of shutting down to survive. And if you come @ me with the poors must live, please be the first one to let go of your oxygen tank for them too then.
For eg, asking office to close down at 2pm: i mean, what exactly is the point? Does the virus only come out after 2pm? Will ppl miraculously be saved if they go to work from 8 till 2?
Jan 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
UNBELEIVABLE: in the middle of his little IT and special zones speech at the launch of whatever he's launching, the PM says he will NOT go to Quetta till they bury their dead. Says he cant 'understand this demand'. Says if they bury today, he'll go today.
The PM also said that no country's PM can be 'blackmailed' like this. [Yes, he used the word blackmail. I'm very interested to see how this is spun].
Very passionate appeal by @BBhuttoZardari right now, for justice for the oppressed. Says: this country, this federation is in danger if justice is not ensured. Promises to stand by the #Hazaras
Dec 5, 2020 • 45 tweets • 7 min read
PM Ik talking to Hamza Abbasi about colonialism. Says the colonised have an inferiority complex. Says in Aitchison they were told to never speak in Urdu. Says when growing up in Punjab Club and Gymkhana u couldnt wear Pakistani clothes. (Says this is the background he grew up in
Says when he went to the UK he realised they were trying to make 'us' into replicas of themselves. IK says his strength is that he always analysed his life at every step.
Oct 25, 2020 • 113 tweets • 18 min read
Huge crowds at the #PDMQuettaJalsa You can watch it live here:
Also: many apologies for not live-tweeting the jalsa. I miscalculated the time it would start.
Because I'm in Lahore. And because winter is at the door, I go back to these words written by @SairaAnsari_ about the city (we) left behind:
"Come, walk with me through a city I left behind. There is a sense of bereavement, of grieving, mourning, lamentation.
"Interspersed, there is also a warm nostalgia. Lahore was home. No, Lahore is always home. Like many ageless metropolises, Lahore is that brew of uncanny juxtapositions that is hard to concoct on your own.
Oct 16, 2020 • 58 tweets • 9 min read
Javed Hashmi addressing the jalsa (can only be seen online):
