an op-ed written with frankness rooted in a personal place. have intentionally omitted many details out of respect for those who have borne the weight of personal costs: x.com/SAAGanthology/status/1…

didn't have electricity for 15 hours at soan gardens. it came back at 3 PM. now gone again at 9:07 PM. @Iescoofficalpk can you please look into why such untimed, gruelling outages are taking place at (surely we all know this) the hottest time of the year?

what "other activities" - most people are on their phones!!! matlab kuch bhi. x.com/IAmIshtiaqAli/status/2…

جس ملک میں وکلاء کا یہ رویہ ہو وہاں ہر عورت ہی خطرے میں ہے۔

Three Ahmadi men are injured, two critically, after an unidentified shooter opened fire at an Ahmadiyya volunteer security vehicle outside a worship site in the Rabwah/Chenab Nagar last night. FIR w/ sections 324 PPC, 7-1(c)ATA registered in the area police station.

After blatant pre-poll rigging in Gilgit-Baltistan where PTI was not allowed to campaign, the state has banned Awami Action Committee in Kashmir. Repression during elections will only fuel resentment & create further instability. Reverse this suicidal policy before its too late.

The number of targeted killings in the tribal districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan against pro-government tribals, their immediate families and law enforcement personnel is continuing unabated. These don’t make headlines or even make it to the alerts of news channels. The numbers are now in hundreds, eroding the state support, of whatever little remains in these areas.

Burkina Faso’s Prime Minister Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo issued a directive dated 1 June 2026 calling for the standardised use of the term “comrade” across the public administration, in all written correspondence, public speeches and official addresses , as part of the country’s Popular Progressive Revolution proclaimed by President Captain Ibrahim Traoré in April 2025, which draws directly on the legacy of Thomas Sankara.  The directive states that official language must reflect the spirit of equality, fighting fraternity and active solidarity between the leadership and the Burkinabè people engaged in building a new Burkina Faso. 

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AI can't do fieldwork (yet). It can't do archival work either. Plenty of interesting qs waiting to be asked and answered by actual effort. Don't let the anxieties/aspirations of quant scholars/secondary data merchants get to you.

A fellow batchmate Mehrab Khalid has been abducted late at night in lahore on 29th May. While others were later released after interrogation, whereabouts of mehrab still remained unknown. #releasemehrabkhalid

Urging the government for extension of this tax percentage while simultaneously fucking over freelancers by suggesting a higher tax rate for their services is what you're doing. These big associations and conglomerates are exploitative by choice.

This is the main part everyone is glossing over. PASHA wants the 0.25% tax rate to stay for “genuine independent exporters” i.e., their own software houses, but want to tax anyone working independently at normal salary rates. Why?

Because they are no longer able to exploit talent at peanut salaries because the smart ones land remote roles and break out. This proposal is their answer: Instead of paying their own employees better, they would rather make remote-work less viable for everyone but themselves.

Lolz, this will just accelerate brain drain. Remote workers aren't tied to one geography anymore. A lot of them can simply relocate to another country and continue earning remotely while benefiting from better tax policies and stability.

2. A rose by any other name is just as sweet - or, put more directly - just because a position claims to be progressive and is defended by progressives does not mean that it is indeed so. This is a very obvious point that will surprise nobody but bears endless repeating.

The suicide bomber of the Quetta bombing has been identified as 25-year old Bilal Shawani, by the proscribed BLA. He is said to be a resident of Killi Sardi, Sariab in Quetta.

The deaths from the suspected suicide bombing have risen to 23. The bodies have been brought to the civil hospital in Quetta, around 47 injured as well. These are only partial figures as official are still busy with rescue efforts. Initial investigations say that the train had stopped at the paramilitary installation to attach new bogeys to the train for families of personnel returning home for Eid. Most of the casualties are women and children.

the guy who rents an apartment at One Constitution Avenue thinks that a poor laborer who takes one day off in a week instead of two, doesn't take off on usual public holidays unlike him (like Labor Day, Kashmir Day), doesn't see his family for months, is not working enough.

literally the only leaves your help gets all year. and it's to meet their families, not even a "vacation" - like you don't go on any. you'll live. x.com/nadeemhaque/status/205…

had my first meal of the day just now. more fieldwork tomorrow. hope my old, withering body can muster the stamina to breeze through it (disclaimer: it will try but it cannot).