#FATF I am reminded of this by Khalid Hasan. ‘Pervez Musharraf 1st visit to the US. At a meeting the Dawn correspondent, asked him why he was not acting against LeT & JeM, Mush went red in the face and shot back “They’re not doing anything in Pakistan. They are doing jihad outside.”

I hope we have sense and not engage with Fawad Ch. The man is on his 5th political party in his political career. He quit pti after two short detentions and some blackmail videos. His time in office was especially noted for pushing back on any fed projects that developed KP.

One of our teachers, who has a PhD. in Pashto, once said, “Pashtuns follow their culture more religiously than their religion.”

Excellent article on the dangers of extra judicial killings and its blowback. Rightly put: “violence begets violence” Culture of impunity dawn.com/news/1974738

Not a single student has enrolled in the Pashto department at Peshawar University since 2022 - shows how neglected Pashto has become. If the government made it part of the curriculum and created jobs, ppl would choose it. Otherwise the nxt generation won’t even read basic Pashto.

There is some irony here: in 2003, Khamenei said Iraqis welcomed Saddam’s fall because they’d been ‘beaten, humiliated, robbed.’ He understood popular anger then. He does not recognise it now at home 3/6

Today in Kohat, Dr. Mehwish was shot seven times and killed for asking a man to wait in the men’s waiting area, as the space was reserved for women’s check-ups. After a brief argument, the attendant stopped her outside and opened fire.

At Iftar dinner, a PTI parliamentarian was asked why Maryam Nawaz is performing “brilliantly” in Punjab while KP isn’t showing the same pace. He smiled and said: “Punjab voted for development. KP voted for revolution and IK’s release. She’s doing her job, we’re doing ours.”

Old enough to remember when Iran's nuclear program was "obliterated" a few months ago.

Abducted PhD scholar hamza was handed over to National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency and charged with "defamatory posts". On the other hand, Haider Majeed has been abducted. Haider already served 2 year sentence handed by military court. Vile attacks on civil liberties!

can’t see any solution to the current security situation in KP; state has lost trust of the people, KP govt has other priorities, police is under-equipped, society is vulnerable to extremism and taliban takeover in Afghanistan has boosted the confidence of ttp.

Police Security detail from Peshawar to escort former chief minister Ali Amin Gandapur has been withdrawn. Faisal Amin Khan has confirmed. It was not immediately clear who ordered the withdrawal. AAG however, has police escort available to him from D I Khan.

Armed terrorists in police uniforms stormed a mosque in Bannu’s Hasan Khel locality, kidnapping three brothers. The victims are government servants: Saeed Akhtar (Commissioner’s Office staff), and his two siblings, Constables Amjad & Hazratullah. Search op launched in the area

Out of a total of 68,691 terrorism-related fatalities in Pakistan recorded between March 2000 and September 2024, 51,535 (75.03%) occurred in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), and the Pashtun districts of Balochistan. Mohammad Taqi *𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒔 .bluesky

Today at 6:!5 our friend Nabeel Ali was abducted from his work place in G7, Islamabad. He was a dear friend, a lover of nature and literature and poetry. I have been working closely with him on Climate Change, he was a passionate advocate for Climate Justice and Human Rights.

The writer has skipped any mention of Pak role in AFG mid '70s or Pak patronage of Hekmatyar. Babar gets called 'publicity hungry'.

...Nawaz Sharif was never known for his attention to detail. He wanted Afghanistan sorted out in a week & he "disliked the Taliban"

Mullah Omar (who may have died in Karachi) expressed his love for Pakistan. He prayed for it before his own country & despised JUI-F.

Russia's Konstantin Zatulin was not complimentary. Described the Taliban as "The Jinn let out of the bottle by US & Pakistan.."

how Pervez Musharraf dealt with a mother of a ‘missing person’. Holding his hand & crying she pleaded for the release of her son. Musharraf in a voice breaking with sincerity said persons said to be ‘missing’ had most probably gone to wage ‘jihad’ with the Taliban.