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Oct 12, 2022

In 2011, while at NDMA, I helped write a review of lessons learned from the 2010 floods with

@JenniferMcKay88

& others. 11 years later, revisited the recommendations with colleagues at

@tabadlab

to assess progress & how learning from 2010 can improve recovery & reform this time.

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tabadlab

@tabadlab

Oct 11, 2022

How far has Pakistan's flood response capacity improved since the 2010 floods?

Tabadlab takes a closer look at the lessons learned from the 2010 floods and analyses how well-prepared the NDMA was for the 2022 calamity: tabadlab.com/dealing-with-d Co-authored by @AmmarRashidT

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The visuals of the blasphemy lynching in Mardan are terrifying. The fact that the victim was a cleric is an unsettling reminder that no one is safe from the growing cancer of blasphemy mob justice in Pakistan. We have normalized murder as a response to imagined religious offence.

Awami Workers Party and 8 others

Zaheer Ahmed

@Naarhiwaal

Militant groups burned the wheat crop including trolly and thresher in tamboo tehsil of Naseerabad. Woman in video claims she own land and need protection from terror of tribal goons. I request from human rights orgs

@HRCP87

and pol parties working on land rights to speak on it.

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May 3

AWP Dep GS Aasim Sajjad addressing the All Parties Conf at Marriot Hotel Isb on Wed,May3,2023 highlighting ecological,demographic& resource capture in peripheries like Gilgit-Baltistan,Balochistan,Sindh, Waseb,Pakhtunkhawa as well as urban centres by real estate mafia,military.

E-Cigs, Heated Tobacco Products & Nicotine Pouch Users Questionnaire

May 3

If you're from Pakistan & have ever used a vape, e-cigarette or nicotine pouch (like Velo), can you please fill out this survey? (Will take abt 8-10 min) Need it for a public health study on usage behaviors for new nicotine products. Please RT for reach 🙏🏽

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This survey is designed to gather information on usage behaviours related to e-cigarettes, vapes, heated tobacco products, and nicotine pouches. The survey is primarily for those who either currently...

Too cowardly & compromised to name the actual institutions trying to cut him down to size so tries to scapegoat a persecuted religious minority instead. Elahi is an odious symbol of everything that continues to be wrong with PTI's politics.

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Tahir Imran Mian

@TahirImran

ختم نبوت کو تحفظ کے ایسے گھٹیا محافظ ہی کیوں ملتے ہیں؟ ایک طرف شیخ رشید، پھر عمران اور دوسری طرف یہ۔ ساری دو نمبر فراڈ یوں کو جب کچھ نہیں ملتا تو وہ ختم نبوت کی چھتر چھایا تلے آ جاتے ہیں۔

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Can't even have a census in this country without the military openly engineering it to fix political outcomes. Joke of a state.

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Taimur Khan Jhagra

@Jhagra

What is happening in Balochistan?

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PRSF Islamabad Rawalpindi and Women Democratic Front ناری جمھوری محاذ

May 1

“Workers Need to Unite Against Inflation and Economic Downturn in Pakistan.” The May Day Jalsa was held in G-9, organised by Awami Workers Party, Progressive Students Federation and Women Democratic Front in commemoration of May 1st, International Labour Day. #MayDay2023 1/6

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& profressor Shahjahan at their residence. Their young son is still in adiala jail with 60 local residents that were tortured and forcibly evacuated from their decades old villages. چھین رہا ہے ہر حکمران روٹی کپڑا اور مکان Down with #CDA.

Ismat Raza Shahjahan ☭

@IsmatShahjahan

#StateBrutalityInIslamabad

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@safibutno

where's the ppl making 15 part threads on how "the left is rich elites teaching dialectics at study cricles and calling each other comrade" when

@IsmatShahjahan

, a 60yo comrade is abducted & tortured with her husband for protest against demolitions of working class katchi abadis

Zoya Rehman

@pind_wave

we all talk a big game about class politics on twitter, but you hardly see anyone, especially women, on the ground, or standing with the workers of the city when solidarity is actually needed the most. show up tomorrow, as a worker, for yourself if not others. #mayday2023

Zoya Rehman

@pind_wave

our state is anti-working class; the land grabbing operation currently happening in shah allah ditta pind sangrial is proof of this. please come tomorrow to show solidarity with the working classes of islamabad and rawalpindi.

@ProgStudentsFed

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On the occasion of Labor Day, @AwamiWorkers, WDF and @ProgStudentsFed are organising a jalsa against inflation, feudalism, capitalism and global imperialism on Monday, May 1st, at 4:30 PM, Karachi Company (G-9), near the Wagon Adda. #MayDay2023

Mohsin

@mohsinidk

Apr 29

Since this PDM govt has come into power, under Chairman CDA

@Noormengal_

, there has been a ramping up of operations against people living in katchiabadis in and around Islamabad. Noor Mengal is celebrating destroying people's homes in the midst of a crushing economic crisis.

Be it violence against street vendors, katchi abadi residents, feminist organizers or political workers, the current government & Islamabad administration are proving themselves to be blatantly & disgustingly anti-people. They deserve the fate that awaits them.

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Apr 29

An FIR has been lodged against @IsmatShahjahan & katchi abadi residents of D-12 who are still in police custody, who are being presented before the magistrate right now, under the preposterous offence of attempted murder. Shame on both @ICT_Police & @CDAthecapital for this farce.

Tariq Aziz

@TariqAzizBaluch

Apr 29

(Due to minor changes the last tweetr thread was deleted) Thread: A 11 years old boy namely Mubashir s/o Noor Ahmed has been raped by 2 madrasa students in Khuzdar, Balochistan. The Madrasa belongs to Jamaat-e-Islami’s leader Aslam Gazgi. 1/1👇 #JusticeForMubashirNoor

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Update: Ismat has been released but an FIR has been registered (without its contents being revealed) and dozens of other protestors remain detained.

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Tooba

@Tooba_Sd

Apr 28

Ismat Shahjahan is out but others are still in jail. Dozens of people who had no connection to this were taken in custody and despite so many hours having passed by still kept on detention without an FIR

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Apr 28

We condemn in stronger words against the arrest & manhandling of our dear comrade

@IsmatShahjahan

by the hands of ICT police & CDA,who despite being elderly and bad health, went to resist the kachi abadi eviction near her home where working class people were living since decades.

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Tooba

@Tooba_Sd

Apr 28

A senior citizen, a renowned political worker @IsmatShahjahan was taken in to custody violently. The policewoman who was “upset” cause she had to come on duty continued to beat an elderly woman. Her arms and hands were scratched, she’s a heart patient. Shame on @CDAthecapital twitter.com/pind_wave/stat…

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Angered to hear

& other protestors were beaten up & arrested bc she questioned ICT police about a violent demolition of a katchi abadi in D12 despite SC stay orders against evictions without resettlement. Ismat & others must be released at once!

@CDAthecapital

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Zoya Rehman

@pind_wave

all workers/people dependent on their salaries and wage labor should attend this jalsa on monday. bring other union members and/or colleagues. working women are encouraged to attend the jalsa & align with the working classes of isb-pindi beyond march 8th. #laborday2023

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Scenes of meeting with members of lady health workers Rawalpindi. AWP and WDF members invited them for May Day activity in Karachi company, G-9 at 4.30 pm. #MayDay2023

Apr 26

One of the many awful new aspects of Twitter is clicking on a viral tweet to read the replies & instead of finding the most relevant or funniest responses (as used to be the case), seeing dozens of prioritized Twitter Blue accounts saying things like 'LOL', 'Yeah' or 'Nope'.

Apr 26

WDF Nasirabad protested against the barbaric murder of a woman whose tortured and brutalised body was recovered a few days ago. We demand an end to such atrocities that women have been suffering at the hands of patriarchy and feudalism #HonorKilling #ViolenceAgainstWomen

Apr 25

عوامی ورکرز پارٹی، پروگریسیو سٹوڈنٹس فیڈریشن اور ویمن ڈیموکریٹک فرنٹ کے وفد نے مہرہ آبادی، جی الیون، ای الیون، عوامی بستی، آئی ٹین اور آئی نائن کی کچی بستیوں کا دورہ کیا، مکینوں سے عید ملے، اور یومِ مئی، مزدوروں کے عالمی دن کی مناسبت سے ہونے والے جلسے میں شرکت کی دعوت دی۔

PRSF Jamshoro and 6 others

Aftab Jatoi (Ali Ahmed)☭

@aftab_ja

Apr 25

PrSF unit formed at Kashmore in (Kashmore at KandhKot District), Sindh #LongLiveRevolution #LongLivePrSF

Sahar Baloch

@Saherb1

Apr 25

Global Fund has shown concern that malaria is rising in flood affected areas of Pakistan. I explain how political crisis has taken center stage in Pakistani media and overall discussions leaving little space for the flood affected areas: For BBC News:

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The Pakistan Experience

@ThePakistanExp1

Apr 24

Arafat Mazhar comes on the podcast to discuss the History and Jurisprudence of the Blasphemy Law of Pakistan: youtube.com/watch?v=msRmoR

@ArafatMazhar

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Apr 23

عید الفطر کے موقع پر عوامی ورکرز پارٹی راولپنڈی اسلام آباد اور پروگریسیو سٹوڈنٹس فیڈریشن کے کارکنان نے کچی آبادیوں کا دورہ کیا اور بچوں کے ساتھ عید منائی، ان کی خوشیوں میں شریک ہوئے، عورتوں اور بچوں میں عید کے تحفے تقسیم کئے اور بچوں نے اپنے ہاتھوں میں مہندی لگوائی۔

jenny_tightpants

@halomancer1

Apr 21

reminder that if too many elon paypigs block you, twitter will deboost your account, giving you an incentive to #BlockTheBlue before they can block you.

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Maulana Hidayat ur Rehman Baloch

Apr 21

Agree, this is an objectively good step by PTI even if it's an exception. Peasant leaders should be in assemblies & mainstream parties never give them tickets. Also it frankly makes sense for Sattar to ally w/ PTI in the current balance of power & his local context.

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Ammar Ali Jan

@ammaralijan

Apr 21

Awarding Mehr Sattar a ticket is a great step by PTI . I personally witnessed his sacrifices for peasants on Okara Military Farms. Previously, he contested elections on PPP ticket & in 2018 supported PTI candidate. We supported him in prison & will support him in these elections.

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Disgraceful how

has been imprisoned for nearly 4 months now for the crime of peacefully mobilizing Gwadar's working poor. This is how the state treats non-violent rights movements in Balochistan. Don't act shocked then when people desperately resort to violence.

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@MHidayatRehman

Apr 18

آئین اور عدالت کا نہیں، جنرل آصف غفور اور جنرل اخترمینگل کا قیدی ہوں۔ چاہے 12 عیدیں جیل میں گزریں، مزید تین سال قید میں گزاروں، چاہے جیل سے لاش نکلے لیکن کسی جنرل اور کورکمانڈر سے معافی نہیں مانگوں گا۔ مولانا ہدایت الرحمن بلوچ کا عدالت پیشی پر واضح پیغام

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Pakistan: Millions of textile workers lose jobs amid crisis

Your policies had very real consequences for ordinary Pakistanis and we will not let you forget this,

@MIshaqDar50

dw.com

About 7 million workers have been fired as Pakistan's textile exports dwindle, putting the sector on the edge of collapse, industry representatives warn.

Yes we are, because it's all very well documented! profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2023/01/22/how

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Irfan Afridi

@IrfanAfridi85

Replying to @AmmarRashidT

Are we really gonna blame textiles issues on Dar? Haven’t we done enough for our textile industry already?

Yes Dar sb, great job achieving a one month measly current account surplus on the backs of destructive import restrictions & one of worst yearly export performances of recent decades. 👏🏽👏🏽

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Ishaq Dar

@MIshaqDar50

Latest Update: Current Account Surplus (CAS) of $654 million recorded for March 2023 In February 2023 it was Current Account Deficit (CAD) of $36 million Cumulative Numbers: CAD stands at $3.4 billion for July-March FY23 against CAD of $13.0 billion for July-March FY22.

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Zarrar Khuhro

@ZarrarKhuhro

When things fall apart, it happens fast. Faster than one can imagine.

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Declan Walsh

@declanwalsh

Millions trapped in their homes. Bodies litter the streets. The health sector is crumbling. It's the speed of the collapse of Khartoum, Sudan's war-torn capital, that's so dizzying, even by the standards of modern warfare. Hard to believe it was a normal city just last Friday.

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Ali

@Ali865586051

AWP unit 60 mile held rally yesterday against brutal killing of AI prof Ajmal Sawand. They condemn killing of the prof and demanded justice for him. Leaders also demanded land reform in sindh to eradicate remains of feudalism and tribalism.

@AwamiWorkers

@AhmedKhayam12

Huzaifa

@MHuzaifaNizam

I’ve noticed many Western Muslims berate us for not wanting to waste our lives in unending conflicts but at the same time can’t be bothered enough to give up on the leisures of western society to relocate to the places they want to turn into battlefields.

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عائشة

@AyishaMuhamad

Even if you claim to be peaceful and submissive towards India, it is unlikely that India will remain inactive towards Pakistan. Those who hold evil & anti-Muslim views will always oppress Muslims whenever they have power. The best response to this situation is to be well-prepared twitter.com/MHuzaifaNizam/…

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It's been over 2 days since Dr Fayyaz Lashari, a doctor & student of public health in Islamabad was abducted without charge by security forces. The brutal, illegal crackdown on educated Baloch youth continues unabated. This criminal practice must end now! #ReleaseDrFayyazLashari

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Shahid Nadeem and 6 others

Sakhi Asif

@sakhiasifweer

Apr 15

Walls Ice Cream is spoiling the scenic view of Passu, Gojal Hunza by installing signboards on tourist destinations. This time, they are doing it with the consent of CBOs. I was arrested under FIR last month for resisting FWO. Let's see what the administration's take is on it.

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