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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:
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Some feminist groups in Pakistan are shifting from symbolic protests to quieter, embedded collective work.
@wdf_pk’s Behnon ki Baithak on 8 March 2025 was one such experiment. @pind_wave on "After the March":
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Zoya Rehman retweeted
Street vendors are being displaced and their livelihoods completely destroyed by Mohsin Naqvi Sb and CDA. Entire markets which used to be full of vendors now have no semblance of life due to whatever money is being pumped in Islamabad. I wish these people visited lively cities and would stop trying to replicate the most gentrified cities of Europe. We aren’t Europe, get over your colonial hangover and let Islamabad be a living city that has streets vendors, food, opportunities for small vendors. It is just sad to visit certain parts of the city where the working classes have been strangled financially. #IslamabadBachao
you cleared carts and outdoor seating, bulldozed abadis, put up an ugly monument at I-8 + that gross i love islamabad sign, and now you want coffee shops in F-9 park!! islamabad is not your dubai project. stop it.
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F-9 Park holds a special place in the hearts of everyone living in Islamabad.
Let me make it absolutely clear that Not a single tree will be cut 100% guaranteed. No new concrete structures.
Instead, we are planning better lighting, a beautiful lake, coffee shops, improved walkways, and the plantation of thousands of additional trees.
Our only goal is to make F-9 Park greener, safer, more beautiful, and more enjoyable for families and visitors.
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Zoya Rehman retweeted
Solidarity with Dr Habiba Kalsoom. Impunity for thuggery against Pakistani doctors and health workers trying to perform their duties needs to end. #JusticeforDrHabibaKalsoom
A person who claims to be MNA Ammar Leghari’s media adviser has been mentioned in connection with the reported incident involving my sister, Dr. Habiba Kalsoom. We call for an impartial, evidence-based investigation and equal protection under the law. #JusticeForDrHabibaKalsoom
took a monday leave after the longest work week of my life and now realising that even three days of rest will not help me recover from the exhaustion i feel. can barely get out of bed or open my eyes.
another snoozefest of a dar-e-nijaat episode after yesterday's slightly promising one. the only plus side to it being the teaser for what's gonna happen next week, i.e. khushbakht's past finally coming to light. yawn.
what's the urdu paper everyone reads the most in pk, one that slips in progressive columns? jang, still?
anon princess sitting in yorkshire lecturing someone living & working in pakistan about namak haraami mind you. namak haraam is what the company called the sepoys who rose in 1857. in sab ka colonial hangover lives on in my replies.
so the only people who can pass this test: those who can pay their own fees. telling others to refuse funding leaves studying abroad to the rich. if anyone's doing capital's work here, it's idiotic purity tests like these.
a fulbright isn't personal hospitality - it's a foreign policy prog the US runs in its own interest. pakistanis have lived with the effects of US policy for decades, which gives us standing to speak about it. if the path closes cos students speak, that's on the state closing it.
taking a scholarship doesn't oblige anyone to stay quiet about the state that offered it. expecting gratitude in the form of silence is a pretty strange standard to apply to a student. really not into these individualized purity tests.
Zoya Rehman retweeted
اسلام آباد میں باہر بیٹھنے کی جگہیں بند ہونے سے شہر انتہائی اداس اور بے رونق لگنے لگا ہے۔ آج دیکھ کر افسوس ہوا کہ انتظامیہ نے شہر کی رہی سہی رونق بھی چھین لی ہے۔ اس ملک میں پہلے ہی تفریح کے مواقع نہ ہونے کے برابر ہیں، اب لوگوں کا کھلی فضا میں بیٹھ کر چائے پینا، دوستوں سے ملنا اور خوبصورت موسم سے لطف اندوز ہونا بھی گوارا نہیں۔
اگر تجاوزات مسئلہ ہیں تو آؤٹ ڈور سیٹنگ کے لیے لائسنس اور اجازت ناموں کا نظام پہلے سے موجود ہے، اسے بہتر بنائیں، پیدل چلنے والوں کے راستے کھلے رکھیں۔ جن کاروباروں نے باقاعدہ اجازت نامے لیے اور فیسیں ادا کیں، ان کی جگہیں بھی کیوں ختم کی جا رہی ہیں؟ ہر مسئلے کا حل سب کچھ بند کر دینا تو نہیں ہوتا۔ لوگوں کو تھوڑا جینے بھی دیں۔
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