Most Important Twitter Trends in 2013

Zagum Abbas

No land for the impure: Arson attack on joseph colony over a blas­phe­my row.

#1947 revisited:To pro­tect the house from fas­cist mob,a fam­i­ly writes:‘Its a #Mus­lim house’ #Joseph­Colony pic.twitter.com/EvEXA4xqKq @ammar_aziz

— Raza Rumi (@Razarumi) March 10, 2013

Chang­ing at the helm: Mam­noon hus­sain elect­ed as the 12th pres­i­dent of Pak­istan
Geo Eng­lish ?@geonews_english

Con­grat­u­la­tions to new #Pak­istan Pres­i­dent #Mam­noon Hus­sain. Look­ing frwd to con­tin­u­ing strong part­ner­ship between our nations @ukinpakistan

— Say­ee­da War­si (@SayeedaWarsi) July 31, 2013

Shia geno­cide: series of attacks in Quet­ta

Mul­ti­ple attacks this week too. Blood­i­est year for Shias in Pak­istan with over 100 inci­dents leav­ing more than 500 dead. #Shi­aGeno­cide

— Syed Ali Abbas Zai­di (@Ali_Abbas_Zaidi) Decem­ber 17, 2013

Crick­et diplo­ma­cy: Revival of Pak­istan India bilat­er­al series.

The ban­ter has been all friend­ly and good fun.. Who­ev­er wins don’t mat­ter I’m proud of you all…x #uni­ty #PakVsIn­dia

— shizzio (@shizzio) March 30, 2011

“I am Malala”: book of a Pak­istani child acclaimed world­wide

as Malala says in #IamMalala , Pak­istan will be a nor­mal coun­try the day peo­ple don’t know the name of the army chief

— christi­nalamb (@christinalamb) Novem­ber 28, 2013

“Waar” hailed…!! Revival of Pak­istani cin­e­ma

#WAAR is #1 on IMD­B’s top ranked films of 2013 WORLDWIDE.

— Bilal Lashari (@blashari) Jan­u­ary 5, 2014

Bid­ding adieu: Chief jus­tice left the office after a che­quered tenure.

+ RT @husainhaqqani: At last, #Pak­istan #CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry is free to engage in pol­i­tics, w/out hav­ing to pre­tend he’s uphold­ing the law

— farah­naz ispa­hani (@fispahani) Decem­ber 11, 2013

Chang­ing the guard: New COAS in Pak­istan

So New #COAS Raheel Sharif hails from ‘mar­tial stock’. Are these guys still liv­ing in the 19th cen­tu­ry or Kipling’s India?

— Yousuf Nazar (@YousufNazar) Novem­ber 29, 2013

Rep­re­sent­ing Pak­istan: A child of Pride “Malala yousafzai in UN gen­er­al assem­bly”

Have you seen #Malala Yousafzai address the #UN Youth Assem­bly on #Malal­a­Day? Here is the video: http://t.co/rCX6EbUKDc

— UN Women (@UN_Women) July 17, 2013

Miss­ing per­sons and Baluchis­tan : Mama Qadeer on long march

#MamaQadeer & #VBM­P­Long­March by @WusatUllahKhan Sahib. The soci­ety here has become #Dehu­man­ized and #Insen­si­tive http://t.co/EVwh7Wshfe

— Moham­mad Ali Talpur (@mmatalpur) Novem­ber 24, 2013

Tourism and ter­ror­ism: 11 Killed in Nan­ga Par­bat

Heard the news of #FairyMead­ows inci­dent at 9 am, switched off TV, sat in silence for half an hour, did­n’t want to tweet any­thing. Angry&Sad

— A Good Sol­dier (@soldierpk_) June 23, 2013