Mother, Karachiite, Political Sociologist, Lecturer @FU_Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Joined May 2010
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The world’s people aren’t aghast at Trump’s victory. They are aghast that the ‘alternative’ was a liberal imperialism sponsoring genocidal wars & relentless dispossession around the globe.
In America & beyond, the far right feasts on the bankruptcy of the liberal establishment.
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Video footage shows Israel's air attacks and their aftermath in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and besieged Gaza which were all hit in the space of roughly 24 hours.
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Seeing what’s going on in the Middle East is a reminder that despite its many flaws, 🇵🇰’s ability to develop and sustain a deterrence capacity that prevents it from being treated like most Arab countries (and Iran) is a major achievement for the country.
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Saw an image of a shredded human body atop a car. It was Beirut - 550 killed, including 50 children, in 24 hours. Absolute horror.
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The Trump Project 2025 states that there can be "no expectations of normal relations" with Pakistan given the "perfidiousness" of "military-political rule in Pakistan."
Important flag for those in ISB / Pindi who think that a Trump win may actually be good for Pakistan.
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In this new paper we calculate the unequal exchange of labour between the global North and global South. The results are quite staggering. You'll want to look at this... 🧵
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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JD Vance and Trump's misogyny - and the testosterone-laden GOP convention - are not merely accidental or incidental; the focus on masculinity is central to authoritarian values and strongmen strategies.
See...doi.org/10.1093/isr/viab028
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Niloufer Siddiqui Receives the 2024 Robert A. Dahl Award for "Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan" #APSA2024
politicalsciencenow.com/nilo…
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For those who don’t know: Kamala Harris’s dad wrote this (and multiple other) famous contributions to Marxian economics. His work remains compulsory reading for us ✊🏽🌹
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The bijli bills have devasted working class families. There is shock, disbelief and anger ripping across society. People earning 40 thousand are being forced to pay 50 thousand in bills. 100 percent of a worker's labour is now being used to enrich IPPs and elites. Unsustainable!
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It blatantly rigged elections, is tolerating mob violence/ Taliban resurgence, piling regressive taxes onto salaried/working class & brutalising ethnic peripheries.
The khaki-backed regime now wants to ban the PTI as its next 'solution'.
History will condemn PDM 2.0 to ignominy
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In "The Spectre of State Capitalism," @IliasAlami and @DrAdam_Dixon examine the ongoing reconfiguration of the state's role as promoter, supervisor, shareholder-investor, and direct owner of capital across the world economy.
Read more on this topic: oxford.ly/4cAsvNG
ALT The cover of the open access book "The Spectre of State Capitalism"
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In 1969, Klaus Schwarz established the book series "Islamic & Middle East Studies" (Islamkundl. Untersuchungen), in which a large number of German PhD theses have since been published. Its 350 vol are all digitized & available for free, thanks to @menalib: menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle…
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#UltraOrthodox protesters block #Jerusalem roads ahead of Israeli court decision on a landmark case challenging a controversial system of exemptions from military service granted to the religious community arab.news/4ky58
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A Pakistani student, @asmerasafi, is one of 13 students at Harvard whose degree is being withheld by the university. These students are being punished for standing up for Palestine. Pakistan media should highlight this case. @ZarrarKhuhro @HamidMirPAK @asmashirazi @_Mansoor_Ali
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Pakistan- land of the pure where profiteers run riot, working people starve & Khaki Raj makes a mockery of democracy.
Protestors in ‘Azad’ Kashmir speak for all masses & ethnic peripheries who want socioeconomic justice. Repression will breed more resistance.
#RightsMovementAJK
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Modi's increasingly ugly and communal rhetoric and anti-Pakistan comments on the campaign trail suggest he's going all out to do everything possible to secure BJP that much-coveted super-majority. He could have stuck with trumpeting achievements, but...that's not how he rolls.
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We spend all our time trying to get students to care about the world, to care about inequality, oppression and justice. And when they show passion for all of this, admin call the cops on them. What utter contempt for education.
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“Yes, it is genocide. It is so difficult and painful to admit it, but…despite all our efforts to think otherwise…we can no longer avoid this conclusion,” writes Amos Goldberg, a Holocaust researcher at the Hebrew University.
thepalestineproject.medium.c… thepalestineproject.medium.c…