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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹

@pirfaisal.bsky.social
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Enfant Terrible Literati. History Buff. Bibliophile. Philosophy lover. Contrarian. Solivagant. M.A English Literature. MS Psycholinguistic.🇵🇰

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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The USA has changed its army chief instead of regime change in Iran.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
www.dawn.com/news/1896650...
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HOSTAGE TO THE DACOITS
Armed with increasingly sophisticated weapons and bolstered by greater networking, northern Sindh dacoits operate with near impunity.
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Repeatable 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...
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: REPEATABLE TRANSGRESSION
History has shown that transgressions by and against the state, when left unpunished, tend to resurface with greater intensity.
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Faith in Falsehoods. www.dawn.com/news/1893623...
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: FAITH IN FALSEHOODS
Despite the progress of science and reason, myths and conspiracy theories continue to thrive — even among educated people.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
All civilizations arose from the ash of stellar alchemy. It’s amazing what hydrogen atoms can do if given enough time.👇
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The 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...
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: BIG TECH'S BIG RUSH
Technological advancements come with the notion that they are liberating people from the old, soulless forms of capitalism. But
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Happy birthday to my guru and mentor, Sir Nadeem F. Paracha. Author, cultural critic and historian.
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Romantic 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...
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: ROMANTIC 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.
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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...
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: WESTERN BLIND SPOTS
As the far-right gains momentum across the West, Western academics long fixated on ‘fragile democracies’ in the Global
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
THE CURSE OF 'COLLAPSOLOGY' www.dawn.com/news/1883075...
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SMOKERS’ 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
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The Self Coup. www.dawn.com/news/1881733...
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE SEIF-COUP
Heads of state, such as Donald Trump and Yoon Suk Yeol, have instigated ‘self-coups’ in an attempt to hold on to power.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Attending the marriage ceremony with former minister of Maritime affairs,Ali Zaidi PTI.
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Reading into Politics. www.dawn.com/news/1874371
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: READING INTO POLITICS
Across 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.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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I’ve joined Bluesky and it feels like a breath of fresh air – in some ways… | John Naughton
The flourishing new platform may be like Twitter once was. The problem is the limited algorithmic scope of all social media
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I can relate my motto of life to this quote by Bertrand Russell.Sapere Aude. 🙏
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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The X (Twitter) Exodus To Bluesky, Explained
X (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.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Does Bluesky have the current trends option like the old twitter.?
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Being here and no longer on X as a small act of resistance.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Bsky 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.
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