A slight change in format for this week’s briefing. Instead of picking up stories from the media, I thought I would highlight the best tweets of the week from Pakistan’s burgeoning Twitter population.

First we have comedian Sami Shah putting director Roman Polanski’s arrest into perspective:

So most of Pakistan is probably mystified by Roman Polanski’s arrest. In Punjab 13 makes a girl over the hill.

PML-Q politician Marvi Memon has a crush on Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and expresses it with vocabulary that would be familiar to viewers of Gossip Girl:

I disagree so blatantly wth pm alllll the time on phone in assembly on media n yet he patiently listens n is so pleasant!

Then, there’s Kalsoom who picks out this AQ Khan column, and says what we are all thinking:

From building bombs to talking about the cute Makrani children of days past. AQ Khan u are a piece of work, man

Mosharraf Zaidi explains our inferiority complex:

Pakistanis get to be extra-juiced, even offensive, about beating India, because well, we’re smaller, more petulant, and we don’t win much.

And, finally, Saba Imtiaz’s tweet can be interpreted both as a comment on Zardari’s constant invocation of his late wife and his diminutive height:

Goodness, Zardari’s really hidden behind that photo of Benazir he’s brought to the UNGA.