Very true. Banks simply lack effective SOPs to manage even the simplest operations. Undue bureaucratic interference has not helped matters.

Because I like low budget 80s sci-fis, I think it looks kind of cool even though it's the blue tick of cars.

I've just invoked Art.99 of the UN Charter - for the 1st time in my tenure as Secretary-General. Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe & appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.

Very interesting thread 🧵

An interesting perspective

Callback to when Zbigniew Brzezinski said the quiet part out loud in this archived interview:- marxists.org/history/afghan…

Champ!

Comrades, remember the words of Eqbal Ahmad: "The primary task of revolutionary struggle is to achieve the moral isolation of the adversary in its own eyes and in the eyes of the world". Keep the energy focused on making all those who chose blindness, see. Onwards!

Actually it is Iftikhar Chaudhry’s ghost which is kicking about at the moment. A decade after his departure his legacy continues to haunt us. The loyalists are in utter disarray but unwilling to acknowledge the errors and contradictions in his philosophy which led us here.

For those with short memories: know that the playbook of deseating and disqualifying politicians, political decision making, and being a walking talking headline, were all pioneered by Chaudhry, often to the raucous applause of ‘Rule of Law’ defenders.

A provocative thread. To what extent is historiography shaped by contemporary trends?

Progress is a sort of madness, a pervasive one.

Pakistan is an example of failed adjustment. Pakistan devalued the Rupee in nominal terms against the Dollar, but high inflation pushed the real effective exchange rate right back up. The Rupee remains 15% overvalued, which means that the trade deficit isn't adjusting enough...

Good point! Thinking of Robarts at University of Toronto.

Worth looking into.

Grant (cont'd, etc.): "A great commander like Sherman or Sheridan even then might have organized an army and put down the rebellion in six months or a year, or, at the farthest, two years. But that would have saved slavery ... and slavery meant the germs of new rebellion. ...

It has been repeatedly pointed out but it bears repeating: The key to understanding the election results is paying attention, not to whom people voted for, but what they voted against.

derek guy The confusion is because for most schoolkids in UK a blazer is a sports coat (no metal buttons), almost always in a plain colour and often 6 sizes too big. The etymology of the term and what you'd get if you went to a tailor may be different but modern terminology has shifted

Believe it, Nadeem. You just became Pakistan's first ever athletics Olympic champion. 🇵🇰🥹

This is still HBO’s best show