Ten years ago my house was robbed and I was slut shamed for wearing a ‘behooda’ tshirt over a shalwar. You BEST BELIEVE that to this day I sleep in clothes that a daku would approve of no matter how hot it is and how tempting shorts are to sleep in during the summer😭
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I communicate through RTs that totally reflect my views unless specified through appropriate emojis 
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Lahore and Islamabad residents when they come to Karachi twitter.com/humorandanimal
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If not that, as a Muslim woman she probably expected to have to answer for a country she probably has roots in but isn’t actually a national of because that’s literally what Muslims live on a daily basis; answer for all Muslims, good or bad.
My captain rn is a woman. The car smells of sanitizer, there are sequinned throw cushions, she’s polite & just asked me what kind of music I’d like her to play on the stereo. AND she’s actually following the map unlike most other captains 🙌🏼
He’s not around to see this tweet, but #HappyFathersDay to this man who didn’t bat a lash when his daughter came home from a bad marriage, two kids in tow & then took care of her & raised the two kids better than he raised his own! Proud to have taken his name ❤️ #MunirHussain
Not gonna get involved in last night’s Nana/Uncle/Rishtedar tea spillage but just wondering why we don’t hold Bhutto lineage to the same shame as Zia ones when it’s literally just about one having better suits & finesse & the other being an easy caricature. Both did SOLID damage.
People whining about Humayun Saeed getting cast in The Crown make it sound like he got his phuppo ka beta to do sifarish for him. This is a big budget Netflix show & he probably wasn’t the first guy they auditioned. The man earned the role whether you like him or not 🤷🏻♀️ #NotAFan
My favourite foreign woman travelling in Pakistan just dropped a video loaded with truth bombs that might make the ‘lovers of gora tourists’ uncomfortable. But she’s honestly the only one NOT projecting a rose tinted image while still being respectful
No, it’s Saba Qamar!
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Women know. Because their friends and sisters who work 9-5's TELL them. I, as someone who works a 9-5 & also does housework(cuz woman), KNOW that the housework is more backbreaking. But arguing with a man who is convinced it isn't is futile & has consequences for most women.
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Housework is 100% harder and more back-breaking than a 9 to 5. Don't let men fool you into respecting them so easily
So last night, a close friend messaged me asking to RT her tweet where she’s posted an illustration her 10yr old made for a competition for J K Rowling’s new book #TheIckabog. It’s a competition but Pakistan doesn’t qualify for it. She asked me to tag JKR.
Refer to women out of their league, to their friends, as “teri bhabi”
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what do brown men do for fun?
How desi girls hint at having a boyfriend just enough to flex but not enough to get in trouble or get it on the record 😂 twitter.com/cassbwell/stat
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Please re-imagine this scenario if Jemima wasn't a rich, white woman. A desi woman playing the same role(all kosher, supportive, candid & enabling) would have been slut-shamed for not being over her ex-husband. But please impose the gori ex-wife on his current wife's moment.
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Actor Gohar Rasheed Just Petitioned For @Jemima_Khan To Be Present At @ImranKhanPTI's Oath Taking Ceremony
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So many of these influencer ‘drops created from hard work and creativity’ are essentially just fancy fonts and an adapted design from an existing design. And they aren’t cheap. Why wouldn’t one just spend that money on an actual brand?
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From my personal experience, I once had a GP tell me to get married. I wasn’t feeling well & he felt that would be something to uplift my life. To quote, I was told to look around, there would definitely be a divorced or widowed man I’d find it suitable to marry 😳
Men will identify and seek out the prettiest and most outgoing of the lot and then proceed to punish her for all the things he liked about her and make/force her to change. twitter.com/SherySyed_/sta
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Just wanted to conclude this thread by saying that I’m in that rare situation where my family does not believe I am ‘expired maal’ & HATES when I say I’m off the market. The same goes for friends. Yet, society & folks outside my inner circle/family manage to get to me too 😳
Random cute animal post. This is Scooby, a stray in my neighborhood who my family(& several others love & feed) since puphood. Haters relocated him once but we found & brought him back. Every morning Scooby has breakfast with us & sleeps off the afternoon sun under the fan ❤️
This tweet by which I found amusing once hasn’t aged well. Still on point & relevant but the context is somber now. Even in death we must uphold our reputations and our family’s izzat.
I have no comment on the design but I’m fascinated by how things like this manage to get done as a priority but we can’t make this city livable
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Atlast Sindh government approved new official number plates for vehicles in the province.
#ridfromyellowplates #wednesdaymorning
Appreciating a city & it’s public spaces should not be a gender privilege. Of the Pakistani women who are privileged enough to travel abroad, 100% will mention the liberating feeling of ‘being a pedestrian’, using public transport & just accessing public spaces 🤷🏻♀️
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Quote Tweet this with the thing that you MOST WISH PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD ABOUT CITIES!
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Mahwash, you’ve built a certain credibility here. I think if you really wanted to apologize to him you should have done it directly & if this tweet is alluding to his innocence then atleast share the damning evidence you’ve become privy too. This is vague & a tad irresponsible 😳
Why does Shireen Mazari always tweet like she’s a regular citizen appalled by what’s happening in the country but also@powerless like the rest of us 🤷🏻♀️
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After 3-yr wait a surprising decision given the clarity of evidence in video. Most unfortunate.
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I realized I’ve actually told this story already. Here it is 🧵
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I think she’s being smart in terms of wanting to feel productive. Sometimes these things are needed to not feel like you’re bumming at work & to separate work time from down time. Good for her 👌🏼 twitter.com/BajiPlease/sta
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We’re getting it wrong. The (handful of)BBCD women appalled by the things Pakistani women marched for aren’t conservative. They’re irritated because they sit on a high horse of having inherited first world rights & to see women back home catching up irks them #ThatsTheChai
I'm surprised this girl is having to write a whole thesis justifying this tweet. What's wrong with wanting this? She didn't say she has control over it or can achieve it. She aspires. Women don't hate the joint family system. They are wary & scared of it because of bad precedence
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I wanna marry into a funcional family where they have huge dawats, holidays, family events and all that. i want to be able to go get breakfast with my mother in law & go shopping with his siblings. I don't want it to be just "US" I want a complete family
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Conclusion: We called the police. We got the call about our car. We were too scared to leave the house.
We called up a carpenter & installed UGLY latches to EVERY DAMNED DOOR! Called up ADT & had it installed.
AND I wore shalwar kameez to work for a solid two weeks 😂🤷🏻♀️🙈
I was 16 on my first Umra and had a Pakistani guy(Cuz Urdu) whisper ‘sweet nothings’ in my ear while I was doing the Tavaaf. It was one of those eye opening moments pre-MeToo-Twitter-wokeness. I couldn’t fathom why he wasn’t afraid God would strike him down with lightning 🙄
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There is nothing religious about showing off your wealth, being inconsiderate about your qurbani waste(animal guts on every roadside & blood soaked streets, not actually knowing religious context. A tv show interviewed people on the street. Most didn’t know the #EidUlAzha story.
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“First you’re wearing these trashy clothes! Then this FASHION!!! You know what we do to girls like you? We thrash them! Look at Dr sahab. SO HANDSOME! SO LAYAK FAYAK”
Sibling, wearing a banyaan & shorts, now looks more worried for himself than me. “YOU SHOULD BE LIKE HIM!”
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My cat ripped my upper lip open and as I stood there holding my bleeding face together, while sibling told them he was taking me to the hospital, the last thing the women of the house yelled out was “BILLO SE NARAZ NA HONA!!!” #BilloTheCat
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My dad when I left extra lights switched on around the house:
" TUWAADA DADA OIL REFINERIES NAE CHAD K GYA!!"
My dad when the cat knocked the 50 inch television on the floor:
"Maown jee ye aap ny kya kia" (in baby voice) twitter.com/aripazmi/statu…
Someone accurately commented that this is why men hate these pages. They allow women to vocalise the abuse generations of Pakistani women have faced with no avenues for advice or support because ‘these are private matters’! Bullshit!These pages help. With advice & resources.
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Someone posted she was in an abusive relationship on Soul Sisters Pakistan & needed to get out with her two teenagers. Couldn’t seek refuge with parents as her husband was threatening them already.
A woman offered her a whole apartment for free for a month! And legal help!
Women leave on time because they finish on time with less smoke breaks because they know ghar ja ke aur kaam hain. Men don’t get judged for working late so work with a more relaxed pace & get praised for overtime when work could have been finished sooner. Been there seen that!
To clear up the argument that the “Dick pic” placard from the #AuratAzadiMarch2019 didn’t represent women of underserved classes... it did! The sign isn’t talking about just literal dick pics. It’s talking about unsolicited ‘exposure’ to dicks. Which domestic workers do get.
Just because Pakistani kids don’t qualify for #TheIckabog competition, doesn’t mean niece Leila was going to miss being a part of the experience. Hope likes this version of the Dovetails’ house, because that would be just as awesome as having the drawing chosen ❤️
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Not on Twitter much at all but here for my 9 year old who had to put up her illustration for #TheIckabog which she is enjoying reading currently so much. @jk_rowling
BuT vHy ShE iS lEaVe HeR hOuSe. If LoLyPoP gO oUt FlY wILl cOmE! twitter.com/aeenaaaa/statu
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I noticed my brother standing next to them. Looking horrified. Not scared. Horrified at having had to lead these men to the women. We were asked to get up. My mother, “We need dupattas”. daku1 rolls eyes & goes to the closet. Gives the women dupattas. I was handed a bedsheet 🙄
