About thirteen years ago, on May 2, 2011, a major incident occurred in Pakistan and a Pakistani man became a witness to that incident without knowing. Mysterious explosions were heard around him. The windows kept shaking due to the sound of explosions. Helicopters kept hovering on the rooftop. Sitting in his house, this person kept mentioning every incident on Twitter. The next morning he realized that the incident which he had been reporting live without knowing, had actually created a new history in the world. And his tweets have become the first witnesses of that changing history.

This was the incident

This person was Shoaib Athar. Who is an IT consultant? His tweeting process started on the intervening night of 1st and 2nd May. When US military raids started in Abbottabad. Then at 1.30 in the night Shoaib Athar tweeted, that helicopters were hovering over Abbottabad, is this a common thing? Shortly after this, he next tweeted that a big explosion that shook the windows was heard. Is something dangerous going to happen? This was the time when the US military entered Pakistan and eliminated Osama bin Laden. Shoaib Athar kept telling tweet after tweet without knowing what was happening around him.

realized the next day

Shoaib Athar kept giving different theories on every shocking incident till 4 o'clock in the night. Sometimes they linked it to aliens and sometimes to the Taliban. The next morning they came to know that a big incident had happened near them. After listening to the speech of then-US President Barack Obama on TV, he came to know that knowingly or unknowingly he was associated with a big historical event. Then he just said that had he known what was happening, he would have tweeted in a better way.