Dear Stephen @stephensackur context to some of the questions you put to @MIshaqDar50
You were asking him to go face the courts after he had attended over 90 vindictive hearings

Pakistan judge ‘confesses he was blackmailed to convict Nawaz Sharif’

of a case that was decided in his favour twice already and time barred. The second time it was thrown out by the High Court. You were asking him to face not double but triple jeopardy intended only to persecute him.
. @stephensackur You do understand that Pakistanis are living in a surreal banana republic, right? The reality of the NAB that imprisons first and questions later is this:
https://t.co/xU50z8QkkI
I’m sure you are familiar with Pakistan’s history: we have had our Prime Ministers and other representatives sent to the gallows, tortured, shot to death, and exiled by the Pakistan Army. The British press & govt should not act as if it doesn’t know. @MIshaqDar50
By acting thus, you strengthen the dictators and dictatorship.
I’m amazed that the whole world knows but the British media is unaware that the case against @MIshaqDar50 is decades old one of ridiculous trumped up charges, that the military brings out of the cobwebbed cupboard, dusts it and starts all over again. Fuck time, fuck triple
jeopardy, fuck evidence, fuck all principles of justice, fuck due process that the British hold dear, but @MIshaqDar50 should submit to persecution because the Pakistani military wants to keep the field clear for its puppet Imran Khan?
. @stephensackur Are you familiar with the number of actual deaths the NAB has caused? Here is just one famous case. Ask @gabeeno

https://t.co/AmLlqnzNim
. @stephensackur Does the U.K. deport people to places where they face death for their political conscience? No. Then why is British media asking @MIshaqDar50 to go to Pakistan to face “justice”?
. @stephensackur are you aware of Pakistan’s human rights record? What the military and its puppets get up to with impunity? Here is just one specific piece from the former chair of @HRCP87 on the human rights violations of NAB
https://t.co/0tetIb3MHH NAB v human rights
. @stephensackur I’m sure you are also aware the Pakistani military abducted me - the FCO certainly does. You were asking @MIshaqDar50 to go face a trial the same military is running?

https://t.co/1jaKJo4M77
Here is @washingtonpost on how and why people are arrested in Pakistan. This one is about the incarceration of the proprietor of the largest news & media group @stephensackur
This “government” is running cases on everyone who is opposed to hybrid regime.
https://t.co/CmqvFoF8Be
Take a look at what the @GdnPolitics reported on what the current junta is doing to us. We are living under martial law plus. And the British press is acting as if there is democracy and free conscience in Pakistan and asking people why
https://t.co/xci7unPOCN
they are not going back home. Honestly, I find that shameful. The press here is humiliating people in exile. That is shameful.
I am sorry I had to say all this to @stephensackur but it had to be said. The British press should not ignore political climates of foreign countries.
And as a reminder of how courts work in Pakistan, please read this too @stephensackur

https://t.co/beEvNDIeXX

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Over the following days the 24hr startup crew had more than their fair share of launches

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अस्य श्री गायत्री ध्यान श्लोक:
(gAyatri dhyAna shlOka)
• This shloka to meditate personified form of वेदमाता गायत्री was given by Bhagwaan Brahma to Sage yAgnavalkya (याज्ञवल्क्य).

• 14th shloka of गायत्री कवचम् which is taken from वशिष्ठ संहिता, goes as follows..


• मुक्ता-विद्रुम-हेम-नील धवलच्छायैर्मुखस्त्रीक्षणै:।
muktA vidruma hEma nIla dhavalachhAyaiH mukhaistrlkShaNaiH.

• युक्तामिन्दुकला-निबद्धमुकुटां तत्वार्थवर्णात्मिकाम्॥
yuktAmindukalA nibaddha makutAm tatvArtha varNAtmikam.

• गायत्रीं वरदाभयाङ्कुश कशां शुभ्रं कपालं गदाम्।
gAyatrIm vardAbhayANkusha kashAm shubhram kapAlam gadAm.

• शंखं चक्रमथारविन्दयुगलं हस्तैर्वहन्ती भजै॥
shankham chakramathArvinda yugalam hastairvahantIm bhajE.

This shloka describes the form of वेदमाता गायत्री.

• It says, "She has five faces which shine with the colours of a Pearl 'मुक्ता', Coral 'विद्रुम', Gold 'हेम्', Sapphire 'नील्', & a Diamond 'धवलम्'.

• These five faces are symbolic of the five primordial elements called पञ्चमहाभूत:' which makes up the entire existence.

• These are the elements of SPACE, FIRE, WIND, EARTH & WATER.

• All these five faces shine with three eyes 'त्रिक्षणै:'.