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A regime cannot imprison everyone.
So it makes everyone afraid they might be next.
ANATOMY OF OPPRESSION | No. 2: Rule by fear
Chile, September 1973. General Augusto Pinochet seizes power in a military coup. Under his rule, more than 3,000 people are killed or forcibly disappeared. More than 27,000 are jailed for their politics, almost all of them tortured.
Why it works:
– Disappearances leave families with no body, no charge, no answer
– Extreme brutality early on means less of it is needed later
– Each citizen calculates that silence is safer, and silence spreads
In 1988, as his own constitution required, Pinochet faced a plebiscite: "Yes" for eight more years in power, "No" for elections. The regime expected a managed victory.
Why it failed:
– The opposition, from conservatives to the left, united behind one campaign
– The Church and civic groups went door to door. More than 92% of eligible Chileans registered, and 97% of them voted
– Volunteers organised to watch all 22,000 polling tables and ran their own count, so the result could not quietly be changed
– The campaign named fear as the real opponent, and answered it with hope: a rainbow, and a slogan, "Chile, la alegría ya viene" – Chile, joy is coming
On 5 October 1988, "No" won with 56%. The regime stalled for hours, until one of the junta's own commanders publicly conceded.
Fear depends on people believing they are alone. That is why regimes that rule by fear ban gatherings, break up protests and jail those who organise them. They fear the people far more than the people fear them.
Where have you seen this playbook?
#FreeImranAndFamily
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مطیع اللہ جان کا منافق ندیم F پراچہ کو کرارا جواب👏👏👏
پراچہ نے ایک دعوی کیا کہ عمران خان کے لیے لوگ ہی نہیں نکلے انکے مقبوضہ ایک myth تھی؟ اور کیا ریاست کے پاس رول نہیں یونا چاہیے کہ اگر کوئی سیاستدان ھٹلر بن جائے تو وہ مداخلت کرکے انکو کنٹرول کرسکے۔
اس بندے نے ساری زندگی انگریزی سیدھی کرنے میں گزار دی لیکن تاریخ نہیں پڑھی۔ یہ شخص intellectually dishonest ہے۔ اگر عمران خان ھٹلر ہوتا تو جنرل باجوہ سیاست دانوں کے ساتھ میٹنگ کرکے انکو عدم اعتماد کے ذریعے نکالتا اور اگر وہ اصل ھٹلر ہوگا تو انکو نکالاپقجانا ممکن ہوتا ؟
ایسے شخص اپنی بزدلی چھپانے کے لیے نئی نئی بکواس گھڑتے ہیں۔ ایوب خان ھٹلر تھا ضیا الحق اور مشرف ھٹلر تھا۔ ایسے گھٹیا لوگ سوسائیٹی کو زیادہ نقصان پہنچانے ہیں۔
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According to Nadeem F Paracha, the PTI’s popularity is a myth; the PPP’s and PML-N’s massive, protracted corruption is “perceived”; state oppression and election rigging are effectively justified. Intellectual dishonesty at its best!
The Myth of PTI’s Popularity.
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This is Pakistan where ministers tell opposition party that in future you will not get money or party nomination tickets.
We are probably the only nation on this earth that has installed corruption in every institution and are proud to discuss it openly; including in parliament as well.
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Hajra Niazi, daughter of Noreen Niazi, was made to wait at the hospital until 3 am last night, yet she was not allowed to see her mother. Today, she is still being denied access, with no medical reports, no update on her mother’s health and no information shared with the family. The entire area has been cordoned off by the police as if a high-profile terrorist were being treated at the hospital. What could be more painful for a daughter than being kept away from her own mother, not knowing how she is doing? This is deeply inhumane and utterly shameful for the Punjab Government and Lahore Police. Whatever the circumstances, a daughter has the basic right to see her mother and know about her health
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Half of Sindh’s under 5 kids are stunted.
82% of kids aged 7 to 14 cant read a grade 2 story. Only 3.7% could pass a basic maths test. 46% of kids 5 to 16 arent in school Less than half even finish primary
Compared to their own 2014 round almost everything got worse. Severe stunting went from 24 to 30%, young women who can read down from 52 to 48, primary attendance down from 45 to 40
In 2017 PPP gov launched a plan to bring stunting down to 15% by 2026.
Local govts get about 5% of provincial revenue. Districts cant fix this even if they wanted to, everything goes through CM House.
PPP and these ethnonationalists get riled up when u bring these catastrophic failures to light, they only want to talk about who built Dow before partition or "Sindh ki Wehdat", nothing on actual issues
What we have already decided
We speak of the future as if it were open. This map suggests otherwise.
The children on it were under five when they were measured. In the 2040s they will run our farms, offices and factories; in the 2060s they will be the parents and taxpayers on whom an ageing country leans. Two in five of them are stunted. Whatever we choose to do now, for them this part of the future has already been decided, before they could choose anything.
A child’s height at two is a kind of ledger. It records, with no possibility of appeal, whether her mother ate, whether the water was clean, whether someone helped when she had diarrhoea, whether anyone thought she mattered enough to reach. The ledger in Gujrat reads one way. In Thatta it reads another. In Haripur and Kohistan, a hundred and fifty kilometres apart, the same province records two different countries.
We like to believe this is history, or geography, or poverty, things that happen to us. But the greenest districts were never the richest land. They were the places where girls went to school, where men found work beyond the village, where the state and the market arrived. The map is not a record of what nature gave us. It is a record of whom we chose to reach.
We are a society that discounts the future heavily. We defer, we borrow, we promise. But children cannot be deferred. The first thousand days do not wait for a better budget year.
Somewhere in Jamshoro a girl stunted in 2018 will be a mother by 2045. What we failed to give her, she will not be able to give her child.
The question this map asks is not about them. It is about us.
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🚨🚨#BREAKING: In a big move , former senior puisne judge #Islamabad high court, after posting currently serving in #Lahore high court #JusticeMohsinAkhtarKayani resigns, citing reason he said “in my considered view, the changes introduced through the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Constitutional Amendments have compromised the independence and institutional integrity of the High Courts. I have witnessed what I regard as the executive's growing control over judicial institutions, extending to the appointment and transfer of judges. Such interference has, in my assessment, seriously eroded public confidence in judicial independence and the fairness of the judicial process.
Of particular concern is the plight of the ordinary litigant, who is the principal stakcholder in the justice system, yet whose suffering continues to deepen. The needs of those seeking justice have too often been neglected, while other actors have become the beneficiaries of a system intended to serve them. In these circumstances, my conscience does not permit me to continue on the Bench. This is a painful decision, but it reflects my conviction that judicial office must remain inseparable from independence, fidelity to the Constitution, and the protection of human dignity.”
One can only pray and feel helpless at this travesty of justice
خدا کرے کہ میرے اک بھی ہم وطن کے لیے
حیات جرم نہ ہو زندگی وبال نہ ہو
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Anyone who celebrates, glorifies or justifies extrajudicial killings in the guise of police encounters is himself endorsing criminality and demonstrating utter contempt for the rule of law. He is no less a violator of the law than those who perpetrate such acts
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So, in Pakistan, if an economically privileged man k1lls a 15 year old orphan, there are NO preventive measures in place, no legal process, no courts to deliver justice to the child but you've got to rely on the CCD to k1ll the perpetrator extrajudicially. What a lawless mess
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تین تین سال کی نوکریوں کے پیچھے یہ حال ہے تو معدنیات کے پیچھے تو کھوپڑیوں کے مینار تعمیر ہوں گے۔
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آج کے دن ایک سال پہلے 15 اکتوبر کو سہیل آفریدی نے بطور وزیراعلٰی حلف اٹھایا تھا
یہ ویڈیو آج ہر کسی کے ٹائم لائن پر ہونی چاہیئے ♥️
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Horrifying scenes from Bara. Firing upon protestors demanding restoration of democracy is a grave crime against our people. Rulers are ripping apart our society to prolong their illegitimate and unpopular govt. May we get rid of them before they cause more damage to Pakistan.
Selection of the nominee on Monitoring committee is highly offensive and dangerous. fake Govt couldn’t even find one member from KPK. Selection of members from Punjab only shows how shortsightedness. Dangerous…..
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A heartfelt message by a parent, K Sharad Haksar to Neha Bora.
“When I got married, I knew I wanted only one child. And in my heart, I hoped it would be a girl.
I was blessed with a daughter.
The first time I held her, I made her a silent promise. You will never have to share my time. You will never have to wait for my attention. Whatever I have, you will get all of it.
I had seen families with four or five children. Parents running from morning to night, and still some child was always left waiting. I also felt our country has too many people, and nature is paying for it. One child felt right. It felt responsible.
For years, I never questioned it.
Then this year, I saw Neha Bora.
She is 29, a PhD student at JNU, a theatre artist from Khatima, a small town in the hills of Uttarakhand. When the NEET paper leak happened, she sat down at Jantar Mantar for students she did not even know. Children who had studied for years. Parents who had spent their savings on coaching and still lost.
She did not eat for 23 days.
She was 66 kilos when she started. She lost more than 7. Near the end, doctors were taking her blood three or four times a day.
The night I read that, I could not sleep. I kept seeing my own daughter in her place. On a hot Delhi road. Thin. Tired. A doctor holding her wrist again. And I knew I would not be able to stand there and watch. I would have begged her to stop.
But Neha did not stop until the work was done. And when it was over, she said her body had forgotten how to eat. It had to learn again, like a baby. Even then, still weak, she went to Bihar to meet more than 600 students who had been arrested. She did not go home to rest. She went to the ones who had stood by her.
I am a dowser. Every day I work with energy. I have learned that anger is heavy. It burns out fast. Nobody can live on anger for 23 days without food. Only love can carry you that far.
Then I read that her father was in the Army, and the family kept moving from one posting to the next.
My wife's father was also in the Army. I never call him my father-in-law. To me, he is simply Papa. My wife studied in 13 schools. Thirteen first days. Thirteen times walking into a class where nobody knew her name. Thirteen goodbyes to friends she never saw again. Army children learn to smile, pack their bags and start again. Nobody asks them how much it hurts. I see that strength in my wife every day. I saw it in Neha too.
In Ranchi, a man threw ink on her face and called her anti-national. She said she had already faced pellets and lathis in Delhi. Ink would not scare her.
Ink washes off. In energy work, we say that what people throw at you only stays if you take it in. She seems to know this without ever holding a pendulum.
Her family did not agree with her. There were fights at home. But during the hunger strike, her mother came to Jantar Mantar.
I don't know what they said to each other. I don't need to. I am a parent. I know what a mother feels when she sees her child weak and thin on a road, and still standing. Every argument is forgotten in that moment. All that is left is: this is my child.
Neha said she has not spoken to her father yet.
I don't know him. But I am a father too, and I know how hard it is for men like us to say some things out loud. So if he cannot say it yet, let me say it for him, from Chennai.
Beta, we are proud of you. Now go and eat something properly.
Somewhere in all this, a thought came to me that I never expected. I wish I had one more daughter. One like Neha. This takes nothing away from my own daughter. She is my world. She always will be. But Neha made me ask myself a hard question. We spend our whole lives keeping our children safe and helping them get ahead. Do we ever teach them to look back at who is being left behind? And if one day they stand up for someone else, will we stand next to them as Neha's mother did? Or will we ask them to come home and stay quiet. Our job is to protect that light, even when it scares us.
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خیبر پختونخواہ میں پالیسی صرف عمران خان کی چلے گی۔ راج صرف عمران خان کا ہوگا۔ عوامی راج ہی عمران خان کا راج ہے۔
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ملازمت سے فارغ کروا کر اگر یہ لگتا ہے کہ ہم سوال کرنا چھوڑ دیں گے تو یہ آپکی غلط فہمی ہے۔۔۔۔
سوال تو گا ۔۔۔
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Two of the lowest possible traits you’ll find here: Glorifying a dictator, and mocking his victims.
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بار بار لکھیں اور اپنی اپنی ٹائم لائن پر لکھیں
لانگ مارچ عمران خان کی قید تنہائی کے خاتمے اور علاج کی سہولیات کے لیے تھا جسکے سامنے فوج ساٹھ ہزار اہلکار لے آئی دس ہزار کنٹینرز لے آئی موٹرویز بند کردیں اور شہر شہر کنٹینرز کھڑے کردیے لوگ اغواء کررہی ہے گھر توڑ رہی ہے اور ایک اور قتل عام کے لیے تیار ہے۔
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