Ex-Parliamentary Candidate GE2024 (Eastham), ex-CLP Chair, ex-School Governor, NHS campaigner, anti-racist, for equality, fairness & transparency. RT≠endorse.
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Tahir Mirza 4 Newham retweeted
Pakistan’s parliament is about to vote on the 27th constitutional amendment which seeks to convert the government into a permanent military dictatorship.
It introduces several new clauses related to Pakistan’s military command structure:
1. Abolition of Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee: The post will be abolished on November 27, 2025.
2. Creation of a new command post: The Prime Minister, on the recommendation of the Chief of the Army Staff (also serving as Chief of Defence Forces), will appoint a Commander of the National Strategic Command from the Pakistan Army and determine his salary and benefits.
3. Lifetime privileges for top military ranks: Officers promoted to Field Marshal, Marshal of the Air Force, or Admiral of the Fleet will retain their rank, privileges, and uniform for life.
4. Protection from removal: These officers, considered national heroes, can only be removed from office through the procedure outlined in Article 47 of the Constitution (which deals with the removal of the President).
5. Legal immunity: The immunities provided under Article 248 (for the President) will also apply to Field Marshal, Marshal of the Air Force, and Admiral of the Fleet.
6. Duties after command: Once their command term ends, the Federal Government will assign their future roles and responsibilities in the national interest.
This really is cultural torture. Imagine you were part of Mamdani’s win — knocked doors, phone banked, and even overcame a series of abductions and attacks from the state — and then on election night it’s reported you won in a landslide. Then the vote counting is stopped and in the sloppiest, most brazen way, it is simply declared the next day that actually Andrew Cuomo won.
That’s what happened last February in Pakistan, with the full support of the United States and the Biden administration.
Now their Cuomo is rewriting the Constitution to add a 27th Amendment effectively making him dictator for life. Trump called him “my favorite field marshal.”
Tahir Mirza 4 Newham retweeted
🏃🏽♀️ More than 700 New York City Marathon runners wore #DropTCS race bibs Sunday, demanding organizers cut ties with title sponsor Tata Consultancy Services over its role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Solidarity protesters in all five boroughs unfurled banners urging the New York Road Runners to drop TCS, which provides financial infrastructure and tech services to the Israeli government.
More than 700 New York City Marathon runners wore #DropTCS race bibs to demand event organizers cut ties with title sponsor Tata Consultancy Services over its role in Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza.
Solidarity protesters in all five boroughs dropped banners calling for the New York Road Runners to stop partnering with TCS, which provides banking and financial infrastructure services to the Israeli government.
An October report from South Asian political collective SALAM called the Tata Group, India’s largest conglomerate which includes TCS, a “key enabler” in Israel’s occupation of Palestine. "[Tata’s] complicity is comprehensive,” the report noted, “providing the hardware of genocide, the machinery of daily oppression, and the digital backbone of apartheid.”
Tahir Mirza 4 Newham retweeted
A Muslim schoolboy named Irfan Uddin Gazi was brutally assaulted by teenage boys on October 16th at St Jarlath’s Collage in Tuam, Count Galway, Ireland.
Police are investigating the incident as a potential hate crime and the school has suspended the students involved.
Surah Al-Baqarah 2:216
﴿وَعَسَىٰ أَن تَكْرَهُوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ وَعَسَىٰ أَن تُحِبُّوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ شَرٌّ لَّكُمْ ۗ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
Translation: You may dislike something while it is good for you, and you may love something while it is bad for you. Allah knows, and you do not know.
Tahir Mirza 4 Newham retweeted
اینکر پرسن و سینیئر صحافی جمیل فاروقی کے بڑے بھائی علیم فاروقی کی وفات پر افسردہ ہوں، اللہ تعالیٰ انہیں غریق رحمت کرے اور جمیل فاروقی سمیت سوگواران کو صبرِ جمیل عطا فرمائے۔ آمین
Tahir Mirza 4 Newham retweeted
He’s pro crime and pro criminal, as I argued at the Jubilee debate.
President Trump has pardoned Glen Casad, the former Tennessee House speaker, and his former top aide in the state legislature just weeks after they were sentenced to prison on public corruption charges. wapo.st/4qMhX5D
Tahir Mirza 4 Newham retweeted
Negotiations are under way to allow about 150 Hamas fighters trapped in tunnels in southern Gaza behind Israel’s “yellow line” to hand over their weapons and walk free.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/zk9flt
The scandal at this London council isn’t an isolated “one bad worker” case it’s the rotten political environment that made it possible. @UKLabour leadership has allowed a culture of chaos, favouritism and blind-eye governance to take hold. And look what grows in that climate: a ‘serious housing fraud’ where a @NewhamLondon council worker was allegedly able to hand out council homes to people who were never eligible while real families sat on waiting lists for years.
A councillor has already been forced out of their housing portfolio and that’s no coincidence. This is what happens when leadership is weak, oversight is absent, and accountability is treated like a nuisance.
This isn’t just fraud it’s a betrayal of the most vulnerable.
And it flourished because the political top allowed it.
The question now isn’t “How did this happen?”
The question is “How many more times has it happened and who at the top already knew?”
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For @lisanandy “Turn the volume down” don't beat the same drum as others do. Start drafting
Well, well, well… Kier, Kemi, Ed and Nigel might want to start drafting their apologies. As for @LisaNandy well that’s a red card moment. Time to walk, if there’s any self-respect left.
Tahir Mirza 4 Newham retweeted
I stand for the true liberation of my country with my leader @ImranKhanPTI
Allah promises that truth will prevail , and Insha Allah we strive for that.
#FreedomOrDeath
Thanks @ClaudiaWebbe
This is the wish of 90% of Pakistanis
Please watch,
There comes a time when silence becomes injustice. A time when remaining quiet only strengthens the hand of those who take what is not theirs to take.
So rise — with courage.
Rise — with awareness.
Rise — with conviction.
Bob Marley - Get Up, Stand Up (Live at Munich, 1980) piped.video/RhJ0q7X3DLM?si=Rh3c… via @YouTube
Tahir Mirza 4 Newham retweeted
TRUMP’S WORST NIGHTMARE | Orange crush in Big Apple | Sudan’s killing fields | MOATS LIVE x.com/i/broadcasts/1gqxvrZnR…
Dictators often try to play the role of God, forgetting that the Creator allows everyone only a limited time to set their affairs in order. In the end, it is the Almighty who decides a person’s legacy. He can elevate someone as a reminder for others, or make an example for all to reflect upon. General Pervez Musharraf ruled Pakistan for nearly a decade, yet never found the peace to enjoy the life he envisioned for himself. His passing serves as a reminder to those in power: remain humble, for authority is temporary and accountability is inevitable
Tahir Mirza 4 Newham retweeted
“Socialist is not a dirty word anymore – that’s why they jumped to ‘communist,’” Jamaal Bowman said to @mehdirhasan.
“Democrats, listen up. Take some lessons – don’t get on your Ezra Klein nonsense. Don’t let Ezra Klein 'analyze' what happened here,” he added.
With @hasanthehun, @prem_thakker, and Mahmoud Khalil.
Tahir Mirza 4 Newham retweeted
I am horrified by the ongoing atrocities we are witnessing in Sudan.
As ever, it's the poorest people in the poorest places that suffer the most.
Tahir Mirza 4 Newham retweeted
Amidst all the news of @ZohranKMamdani winning in NY last night, there were also two council by-elections in Burnley.
Labour and the Tories were wiped out and the Independents standing defeated Reform.
Policies aimed at working class people win elections.
Tahir Mirza 4 Newham retweeted
Congratulations to @ZohranKMamdani!
You ignited a grassroots campaign, built on the radical idea that everyone deserves to live in dignity.
This is a seismic victory — not only for the people of New York, but for all those who believe that humanity & hope can prevail.
