there was a mosque 110 meters, or a 2 minute walk away, from where Shaheen was.

Pakistani doctors and medical institutions are a serious case study. Even in govt medical schools this practice of treating students like errant wards, failing them till they display complete subjugation/sycophancy is the norm.

Meet Abdul Waheed Sheikh, an Ex-Army man, now running a prison called Avicenna Medical College who came up with grotesque punishment concepts like “pink-lists”, shaving heads, cutting clothes, protecting sexual harassers. Concern after being exposed is always hollow.

Let’s call this series #TransliterationTroubles , nice alliterative ring to it & doesn't target my favourite set of people in Pk either 🍔 Dwelling on the merits of using JH vs CH for jhalla (crazy/foolish), but mostly it's just an excuse to throw together some fun songs

Dhruv Rathee single handedly re-weaving this country's common-sense in a way we (acads) never could:

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Incredible that this was something that apparently needed to be said and has even generated discourse.

Second dhakka of the day to my mental state after a gora tried to teach me Punjabi in my mentions

An absolute horror story coming out of Avicenna Medical College, Lahore :

On April 27th, Mahnoor died. Students think it’s a suicide. It’s a humiliating torture cell. Students have had their heads shaved of, made to sit in suffocating rooms, phones hammered down, clothes cut.