My work 'Urdu Expressive Lettering: an Exploratory Case' published on @thisisDRS, the work was influenced by 2022 floods in Pakistan to engage students in studio based design activity to express their emotions through Urdu #typography and lettering. Urdu remains... [thread]

Have you ever wondered why the value designers create for Pakistan's economy remains largely uncounted? linkedin.com/pulse/designers… via @LinkedIn

In the past months I've been on a mission to make Pakistan's public data more useable through building open source databases and visualisations. Today I'm launching Adaad (اعداد), a monthly data journal on Pakistan. Adaad is where those datasets become arguments and insights. Everything here is made to be taken. The prose, the charts and the cleaned datasets are published under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY 4.0). Translate a piece for an Urdu newspaper. Rebuild a chart for a classroom. Rerun the analysis and publish your disagreement. All we ask is a line of credit and a link to the source. Adaad also publishes contributors. If you have a question the data can answer — or data that raises a question — pitch it to editor@adaad.org. For more details on what is required for a pitch, please see the about section. Happy Independence Day — the struggle continues! adaad.org/

Another cruel reality of our society exposed in judicial commission proceedings today. #MirRaza's @bykeapk driver Ihsanullah who from day one cooperated with family & investigation was evicted by police & Bykea vehicle taken back & fired for getting involved in a police case P1/2

A girl from my village requires PKR137,790 ($500) to secure her admission at Quaid-e-Azam University and pay the hostel fee. The student is the daughter of a tea-stall vendor in my village (Basti Dhup Sari). Her mother is a housewife. They are four siblings.

As Arundhati Roy said, what is under the rubble in Gaza is not only the bodies of countless Palestinians killed by Israel, but also the carcass of Western Liberal Democracy...

#TTS #TTSProfessorsStarvingOnEid #TTSProfessorStarvingOnEid

#TTSFacultyMassResignation #TTSProfessorStarvingOnEid

Teachers researchers need your VOICE!!! #TTSFacultyMassResignation #TTS

#TTSFacultyMassResignation بدل کر فقیروں کا ہم بھیس غالب تماشائے اہل کرم دیکھتے ہیں۔ چھ سال سے حکومتی وعدے ریت کی دیوار ثابت ہوتے ہیں۔پورا سال ہمیں امید دلائی جاتی ہے اور مئی جون میں یہ دیوار توڑ دی جاتی ہے۔اے اہل کرم کچھ اس پڑھی لکھی کمیونٹی کے لیے بھی سوچیے۔ہم بھی پاکستان ہیں

TTS faculty continue carrying institutional responsibilities despite frustration. #TTSFacultyMassResignation @BBhuttoZardari @shazbkhanzdaGEO

Universities risk losing their most productive researchers as TTS faculty explore overseas opportunities. #TTSFacultyMassResignation @betterpakistan @Financegovpk @PakPMO @HamidMirPak @_Mansoor_Ali @asmashirazi @shazbkhanzadaGEO @MIshaqDar50 @AsadAToor @81ShahbazRana

Research labs are losing experienced TTS faculty who cannot justify staying with frozen income. The government's silence on TTS pay revision suggests a lack of priority for higher education research. #TTSFacultyMassResignation

TTS faculty often lead the highest research output yet receive the least financial protection from inflation. #TTSFacultyMassResignation @betterpakistan @Financegovpk @PakPMO @HamidMirPak @_Mansoor_Ali @asmashirazi @shazbkhanzadaGEO @MIshaqDar50 @AsadAToor @81ShahbazRana

Academic qaulity nose diving as govt doing its best to punish teachers and researchers. The government has allocated billions for development projects but none for TTS salary adjustment. #TTSFacultyMassResignation @betterpakistan @Financegovpk @PakPMO @HamidMirPak

#TTSFacultyMassResignation Research productivity and academic quality suffer when qualified faculty cannot meet rising living costs.

#TTSFacultyMassResignation Tenure-track faculty across Pakistan's public universities face deteriorating working conditions without pay revision. @betterpakistan @Financegovpk @PakPMO @HamidMirPak @_Mansoor_Ali @asmashirazi @shazbkhanzadaGEO @MIshaqDar50 @AsadAToor

With tears of anguish, little Suheila pleads for help to save her father, a former prisoner who is battling cancer and severe mental trauma following his detention. Today, he is left without medicine, living on the streets of Gaza due to the ongoing war.

I think it’s more powerful without any words from me…

This isn't in the trial phase. The entire China International Consumer Products Expo in Hainan, recently, used only these materials for signage, food containers, and more. This is getting scaled for mass use.