Ammar Rashid

The ppl of Tirah do not want militants on thr lands. Decades of war hv financially weakened them, and they cannot — and likely will not — be able to sustain an armed lashkar for long. They r also unwilling to seek support from the state, as they have zero trust in its machinery.

وادی تیراہ کی عوام کے پاس آخری حل ؛ زرائع کے مطابق آٹھ ہزار افراد پر مشتمل قومی جرگے نے ہاتھوں میں قرآن پاک لیکر بھوٹان میں واقع عسکریت پسندوں کے ٹھکانوں کا رخ کرلیا ۔ جہاں پر قرآن کا واسطہ دیکر علاقہ چھوڑنے کی منت سماجت کی جائیگی

A month ago, India's own NIA said the actual Pahalgam attackers were not the ones whose sketches were initially released by the police. Now India's back to claiming the ones in the sketches were the attackers & they're conveniently dead just in time for the Parliament session.

Strongly condemn the senseless killing of protestors in Tirah. There must be immediate transparency on the incident from the military & govt and an urgent investigation. The situation in KP is rapidly deteriorating. While the growing threat of TTP terror is very real, the…

Pakistan's collective indifference to the systemic abuse of 1000s of its own children by murderously violent, sexually perverted & mentally diseased men under the guise of 'religious instruction' is a gruesome stain on our society & religion. We allow this to happen w/ impunity.

Shameful stuff frankly. One thing to engage in security cooperation against IS, quite another to confer military awards on the general directly responsible for arming Israel's ongoing genocide of the Palestinians. Such sycophancy diminishes Pakistan's stance on the genocide.

The Zionist entity must never be able to endure as a normal state after what it has done. There is not even a question remaining of 'recognition' - it must be militarily dismantled like Nazi Germany was and its leaders & many holocaust enablers put to trial in front of the world.

The dismantling of the Zionist entity is the defining struggle of our time. No other regime so openly manufactures famine, films its own war crimes, arms its children with hatred, and then dares to call it survival. There is no decolonial future, no moral architecture, no just…

We held two medical camps in Dera Bugti a few weeks ago. Here’s what we learned about the deliberate water shortage and its impacts on people:

Ommitting DHA's name isn't going to change the fact that DHA 5 was hazardously built on low-lying land encroaching the pathways of Soan's drainage channels. Censorship will only serve to prevent an honest review of bad planning decisions & enable further tragedies in the future.

I have always held in contempt those intellectuals based in urban centers (or abroad) who romanticise armed struggle without bearing the consequences. They are ruining lives while building their own social media profiles.

Allow me to say this: Those who are not condemning BLA’s blatant terrorism. Those who are justifying and being apologist for BLA’s terrorism, have no idea the ways in which they are encouraging young impressionable minds to pursue this line. You are ruining their lives

There is a culturally tolerated epidemic of sexual abuse, especially of boys, in our culture and it is a reality we must contend with and develop social and cultural mechanisms to address. Trauma breeds trauma and we as a society are complicit in the harm of our kids.

How can a bus driver, who spends all day on the road serving the public, survive when he’s paid less than even the government’s set minimum wage? Punjab’s minimum wage is Rs. 40,000. The Capital’s minimum wage is Rs. 37,000. Yet, companies like TAP (ticketing) and MSM (security)…

The sentencing of PTI leaders and workers is excessively harsh and serves no purpose except to deepen strife and foster an ugly political culture that only harms Pakistan. Enough is enough.

Hundreds of workers are on strike in Gujranwala and Faisalabad against government failure to implement labour laws. Minimum wage is not being adhered to, while prices of basic commodities skyrocket. Workers' struggle will only intensify in the face of the government's apathy.

7th day of strike by powerloom workers in Gujranwala against non-enforcement of already inadequate minimum wage laws. The govt is touting export gains in textiles as its own success while workers who sustain this critical export industry can't even obtain the legal minimum wage.