Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The true Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe..." [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

قومی زبان اردو ہے، سرکاری زبان کہنے کی حد تک اردو ہے۔ بیوروکریسی، قانون سازی، اور تعلیمی اداروں کی مروجہ زبان اب تک انگریزی ہے۔ 1973 کے آئین میں یہ طے کیا گیا تھا کہ 15 سال کے عرصے میں وفاقی سطح پہ دفتری امور اردو میں منتقل کر دیے جائیں۔ آج تک ہمارے وہ 15 سال مکمل نہ ہو سکے۔

When a country allocates only Rs 2 billion for education and Rs 850 billion to the Benazir Income Support Programme, it should not expect to produce more Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan but beggars. This is the tragedy of misplaced priorities, investing in dependency rather than education, innovation, and human capital. #Budget2026

اتنی سی بات پہ بھی لوگ بلاک کر دیتے ہیں۔ اس غم سے بھلا میں کیسے نکلوں گی؟؟؟

Want to see what 'elite capture' really looks like? Check out the story of Lahore Gymkhana which pays rent of Rs. 5000/ year for 112 acres of the most valuable real estate in Punjab @UsamaKhawar youtube.com/watch?v=Bs8nyp2s… with a special mention of @Somia_1234 who raised this in PA

hmmm... @ShafiJanPTI

Pakistan’s universities are stuck in a vicious cycle: grand buildings with no real intellectual professors, endless papers with no solutions, and local ideas dismissed until a “gora” expert repeats them. Time to break the intellectual dependency 
Politicians love cutting ribbons on shiny campuses, but forget that universities are about thought and research, not just concrete. We’re running professor-less institutions filled with junior & part-time staff. Brain drain, forced retirements at 60, pathetic salaries, bureaucratic delays, and zero respect for academics have hollowed out our faculty. Professors should lead — not chase admin posts. Restore autonomy, end the grade treadmill, and let merit & professional associations drive hiring & promotions. 
Link: nadeemulhaque.substack.com/p… Producing papers, not solutions.
HEC’s obsession with Scopus counts, impact factors & h-indexes turned research into a numbers game. Academics churn out micro-studies and safe regressions for foreign journals while ignoring Pakistan’s real crises — land markets, energy pricing, tax reform, state capacity. We reward quantity over local relevance and policy impact. Result? Thousands of papers, zero influence on national problems.. 
Link: nadeemulhaque.substack.com/p… 3/ The Gora Complex.
Local scholarship on demographics, growth traps, and institutional reform gets ignored until an Oxford professor or World Bank visitor says the same thing with a foreign accent — then it’s headline news. We crowd out our own thinkers and treat foreign validation as the ultimate authority. This is intellectual displacement. A confident nation cites its own researchers first, debates imported ideas rigorously, and builds domestic intellectual sovereignty instead of waiting for external endorsement. 
Link: nadeemulhaque.substack.com/p… Pakistan deserves universities that solve Pakistani problems — led by respected Pakistani real professors cum intellectuals whose ideas matter at home first. End the buildings-over-brains model. Reward problems solving over metrics. Stop outsourcing thinking and authority. What do you think needs to change most? #PakistanEducation #HigherEdReforms #IntellectualSovereignty @

Pakistan's higher education system has become a paper mill, not an idea factory. Talk to many PhDs, and the conversation quickly turns to Scopus, impact factor, h-index, Q1 journals, and dropping foreign names to survive the promotion race. Ask how their research changed a village, a policy, an industry, or a ministry, and the room often goes silent. Our universities celebrate buildings, rankings, cut ribbons, and bureaucracy while the intelligentsia has disappeared. Professionalism, merit takes a back seat to networks, infrastructure, and administrative politics. You are absolutely right; a nation cannot import its intellectual sovereignty. Until we reward original thinking, policy impact, and courage over publication counts and foreign validation, Pakistan will keep producing CVs instead of civilization-changing ideas.

حسبنا اللہ و نعم الوکیل

Provoke them and then use their reaction against them... Seems like a strategy....

It's interesting how a different perspective is often taken as an offense. The ability to disagree without taking it personally is getting rarer. #AgreeToDisagree #DifferentPerspective

یہ تیز رفتاری ہر روز نجانے کتنی جانیں لیتی ہے لیکن مجال ہے کسی کو سمجھ آئے۔

مجھے لگا تھا کہیں گے بچوں کو کتھک سکھائیں تاکہ گرمی کا مقابلہ کیا جا سکے۔

Women in Pakistan do not only need self-defense lessons. They need the rule of law, functioning institutions, and a state that treats them as human beings whose rights MATTER. The problem is not that women don't know how to defend themselves. The problem is that too many men know they will never be held accountable.

بالکل ایسا ہی ہے۔