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A surreal video circulating now on social media where a guy standing on the #Belarus border of #Poland says “I want to go to Poland, but they won’t let us”.

As anyone can find online on https://migracje.gov.pl in 2025 alone almost ~1000 people migrated legally to Poland from #Pakistan, ~2000 from #Afghanistan, ~1000 from #Syria etc.

This is just Poland alone (!), so the process does work, the “fortress Europe” is a myth. But this particular guy decided it’s absolutely necessary for him to buy air tickets and visa to Belarus, and then march through the heavily guarded border zone in Belarus only to try to storm the border fence on Polish border? What’s the point?

Well, the whole point is hidden in the small print at the bottom of the video - GPK is Belarus border force, who participates in a coordinated human smuggling business. This video is literally an advertising video of state-sponsored human smugglers who are trying to force another country to accept their customers, thus making their business even more efficient and profitable.

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"In yet another knee-jerk reaction to curb #RenewableEnergy growth through #solar net metering amid high grid electricity costs, [#Pakistan's] government on Thursday reduced the buyback rate by two-thirds to Rs10 per unit and scrapped net billing.

The decision [is] applicable to new net-metering consumers."

dawn.com/news/1897740/solar-us

DAWN.COM · Solar users face higher costs as policy revisedBy Khaleeq Kiani

A new #TravelBan by #Trump could bar people from #Afghanistan & #Pakistan from entering the US as soon as next week based on a government review of countries' security & vetting risks, three sources familiar with the matter said.

#law #racism #discrimination #Islamophobia #RacialProfiling #USpol #geopolitics #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
reuters.com/world/us/new-trump

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"#Pakistan’s bees once produced 22 varieties of honey, but that has plummeted to 11 as flowering seasons shorten. Three of the country’s four honeybee species are endangered.

#Bees are threatened globally by changing weather patterns, intensive farming practices, land-use change, and pesticides."

aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/3/4
#ClimateInflation

Al Jazeera · Climate crisis threatens Pakistan’s bees and honey tradeBy Al Jazeera

started a #wikipedia article on German-born American anthropologist Hanna Kaiser Papanek (1927-2017); as a child she moved to Czechoslovakia, France, and New York to flee the Nazis. She sailed from Lisbon to New York City on the SS Nyassa in December 1940; the ship full of refugees was under distress on arrival. She earned a PhD at Harvard, and studied women's lives in Pakistan in the 1950s, Indonesia in the 1970s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Pa @wikiwomeninred #Pakistan #Indonesia #purdah

Meanwhile, in #Pakistan:

“This year's theme focused on the Feminist History of Pakistan, honouring the women who defied the military dictatorship of General Zia-ul-Haq by organizing a public demonstration in Lahore on February 12, 1983, despite martial law regulations that banned all political activities, processions, and public protests.”

globalvoices.org/2025/02/20/au

Global Voices · Aurat March and honouring women's struggle in PakistanThis year's theme, Feminist History, honored the struggle of women who resisted the draconian laws introduced by military ruler General Zia-ul-Haq in the 1980s.