Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 04/04/2026The USA has changed its army chief instead of regime change in Iran. 000
Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 09/03/2025www.dawn.com/news/1896650...dawn.comHOSTAGE TO THE DACOITSArmed with increasingly sophisticated weapons and bolstered by greater networking, northern Sindh dacoits operate with near impunity. 067
Reposted by Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Repeatable Transgression. History has shown that transgressions by and against the state, when left unpunished, tend to resurface with greater intensity. www.dawn.com/news/1895134...dawn.comSMOKERS’ CORNER: REPEATABLE TRANSGRESSIONHistory has shown that transgressions by and against the state, when left unpunished, tend to resurface with greater intensity. 021
Reposted by Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Faith in Falsehoods. www.dawn.com/news/1893623...dawn.comSMOKERS’ CORNER: FAITH IN FALSEHOODSDespite the progress of science and reason, myths and conspiracy theories continue to thrive — even among educated people. 031
Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025All civilizations arose from the ash of stellar alchemy. It’s amazing what hydrogen atoms can do if given enough time.👇 450
Reposted by Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 09/02/2025The Big Tech’s Big Rush. Are people being duped and led towards societal collapse and an authoritarian techno-capitalist future? www.dawn.com/news/1890662...dawn.comSMOKERS’ CORNER: BIG TECH'S BIG RUSHTechnological advancements come with the notion that they are liberating people from the old, soulless forms of capitalism. But 062
Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Happy birthday to my guru and mentor, Sir Nadeem F. Paracha. Author, cultural critic and historian. 030
Reposted by Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Romantic Nationalism and Fake History. Pseudo-archaeology has played a big role in constructing mythical histories that feed into imagined pasts that ultimately only aid the political aims of ultra-nationalism. www.dawn.com/news/1889117...dawn.comSMOKERS’ CORNER: ROMANTIC NATIONALISM AND FAKE HISTORYPseudo-archaeology has played a big role in constructing mythical histories that feed into imagined pasts that ultimately only aid the political aims of ultra-nationalism. 031
Reposted by Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 26/01/2025 It is naive to continue idealising democracy without critiquing it from some awkward angles. www.dawn.com/news/1887627...dawn.comSMOKERS’ CORNER: WESTERN BLIND SPOTSAs the far-right gains momentum across the West, Western academics long fixated on ‘fragile democracies’ in the Global 041
Reposted by Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 05/01/2025THE CURSE OF 'COLLAPSOLOGY' www.dawn.com/news/1883075...dawn.comSMOKERS’ CORNER: THE CURSE OF 'COLLAPSOLOGY'Western political scientists and academics are often quick to label nations such as China and Pakistan as being ‘on the 052
Reposted by Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 29/12/2024 The Self Coup. www.dawn.com/news/1881733...dawn.comSMOKERS’ CORNER: THE SEIF-COUPHeads of state, such as Donald Trump and Yoon Suk Yeol, have instigated ‘self-coups’ in an attempt to hold on to power. 121
Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Attending the marriage ceremony with former minister of Maritime affairs,Ali Zaidi PTI. 020
Reposted by Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Reading into Politics. www.dawn.com/news/1874371dawn.comSMOKERS’ CORNER: READING INTO POLITICSAcross history, politicians and statesmen have often found inspiration and political strategies in books. However, the age of "leader-readers" now seems to be at an end. 097
Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comI’ve joined Bluesky and it feels like a breath of fresh air – in some ways… | John NaughtonThe flourishing new platform may be like Twitter once was. The problem is the limited algorithmic scope of all social media 120
Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I can relate my motto of life to this quote by Bertrand Russell.Sapere Aude. 🙏 040
Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 21/11/2024www.forbes.com/sites/danidi....forbes.comThe X (Twitter) Exodus To Bluesky, ExplainedX (formerly Twitter) users are leaving in droves to the social media site Bluesky—here’s why they’re leaving, and why they might not stay away. 020
Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Does Bluesky have the current trends option like the old twitter.? 020
Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Being here and no longer on X as a small act of resistance. 000
Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Bsky is much better than X. It's just like the old version of Twitter. My old account was blocked by X and it remains suspended in Pakistan. I would suggest my friends to leave X and join Bsky. 000