Ali Khalid

[Muneeb Farrukh @Muneeb313_]

This moment can’t just be celebrated, it has to be built on. Pakistan finally has a result that can shift perception, but trophies don’t change football overnight unless the momentum is protected. With the World Cup happening right now, this is exactly the kind of timing that can be used to push visibility, invest in structure, and keep the conversation alive at the highest level. The challenge is not just winning once, but making sure this doesn’t become a one-off highlight that fades away. If anything, this should be treated as a starting point, a reminder that there is talent, emotion, and potential that needs consistent support, exposure, and long-term planning so moments like this start becoming normal, not rare.

#PakistanFootball

[Muneeb Farrukh @Muneeb313_]

PAKISTAN ARE THE CHAMPIONS! 🇵🇰⚽️

Shaheens beat Afghanistan 2-0 courtesy a stunning bicycle kick goal from Shayek Dost and a late strike from Harun Hamid to win the Diamond Jubilee International Football Tournament! 💚

Feels great to win a football trophy, that too after god knows how many years, a day before the FIFA World Cup! 🏆

#PakistanFootball

[Hamid Mir حامد میر @HamidMirPAK]

کیا یہ سب کے سب بھارتی ایجنٹ ہیں ؟ انکی قیادت کے ساتھ مذاکرات کے بغیر صورتحال بہتر نہیں ہو گی جو لوگ آزادکشمیر میں نفرتوں کے کاروبار سے فائدہ اٹھانے کی کوشش میں ہیں وہ ہم سب کے دشمن ہیں

[Mohammad Zubair @Real_MZubair]

National Economic Council meeting postponed 3 times. Release of economic survey postponed thrice. And Budget itself postponed twice. Has to satisfy IMF & coalition partners but no concern for people. Never seen such an incompetent and unprofessional and irresponsible government ever.

[Saad Nasir @Saad10Nasir]

Heartbroken but incredibly proud of this team. We go again next year

COYG 💔🤍

[Louis Dunford @LouisDunford]

North London Forever

And ever…

And ever…

❤️

[Dr. Arif Alvi @ArifAlvi]

On the Cipher, the Coverup, and the Consequences:

Drop Site News published a document, claiming that it is the original Cipher I-0678 dated 7 March 2022, and it came from a military source. The world now believes that this is the smoking gun. Let's dissect it from there.

Pakistan's establishment spent four years suppressing, prosecuting people over it, claiming that it did not exist. The truth was forced out not from within Pakistan, but by an American investigative outlet. That fact alone is the indictment.

Donald Lu told Pakistan's Ambassador plainly: “All will be forgiven in Washington”, if the no-confidence motion against PM @ImranKhanPTI succeeded, while warning of isolation if it did not. This was not diplomacy. It was a threat and a bribe, delivered in the same breath, to a sovereign nation's ambassador. The NSC in its two meetings clearly stated that this amounted to unacceptable and blatant interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan and that the Govt. rightly issued a démarche.

On 12 May 2022, I as President formally wrote to CJP Umar Bandial requesting a Judicial Commission, open hearings, full investigation and truth be placed on record. This was published in all newspapers. (Please read the letter below, every word carries historic weight in world affairs of this nature).

CJP received that letter. Did not comment. Did not act. The judiciary's silence marked the beginning of its institutional surrender. Had that Commission been constituted, these questions would have been answered under oath: who received the cipher, who acted upon it, who domestically facilitated the foreign signal, and which institutions of the Pakistani state collaborated in the removal of an elected prime minister.

Pakistan would have had the truth. A man who warned the nation would not have been imprisoned on false charges arising from the very document the state refused to investigate. Instead, the nation got four years of compounding ruin.

A regime was not merely changed but democracy was dismantled, piece by piece, demolished with full institutional complicity at every level. Parliament was reduced to a 'stinking chamber of convenience'. PTI commanding the largest popular mandate in Pakistan's history had its electoral symbol stolen, its seats brazenly allocated to others by judicial decree, all to hand a 17-seat party, a fraudulent two-thirds majority.

PTI's workers were tried in military courts. Its voters were disenfranchised. Its leader imprisoned — on charges arising from the very document the state refused to examine. The 26th & 27th Amendments were coercively passed, turning the judiciary into a handmaiden of the executive, an instrument of crooked consolidation rather than a guardian of rights.

Now count the human cost. 44% of our people are below the poverty line, 105 million people that is 20 million more than in 2019. Real incomes have collapsed. GDP growth of barely 3% cannot keep pace with population, let alone absorb new labour. Terrorism is at its highest. Capital is leaving, not arriving. 22 million young Pakistanis are neither working nor studying, 25 million children are out of school. The direction is unambiguous: Pakistan is getting poorer, faster than ever.

These are not statistics. These are children going to bed hungry. Young men drowning on boats to shores that may kill them, because their own country is pushing them out. Mothers choosing between medicine and bread. Every single one of these human beings is a direct, traceable, forensic consequence of the decision made in April 2022 to subvert the democratic mandate of the Pakistani people. This is not an act of God. It is the price of a conspiracy with all its collaborators naked before the people.

Donald Lu issued a threat. He did not remove a government. Pakistanis removed a Pakistani government. General Bajwa in uniform. Some in robes. Some in ‘dastaar’. Corrupt politicians, some with deep pockets from Dubai. They chose a foreign signal over the people and the constitution they had sworn to protect. The perpetrators were not only foreign but local. Let that be stated plainly and permanently on the record.

To those who say, "this is the past, let us move forward", I say that: There is no investment without rule of law. There is no rule of law without an independent judiciary. And there is no independent judiciary that can be built upon the foundations of predominantly crooked judges. The path forward runs through the truth, not around it.

Pakistan's economic misery, its institutional decay, total corruption, national termites eating up everything, none of it is an act of God. It is the direct and traceable consequence of a criminal regime change, facilitated from without and executed from within.

The contents of the cipher as reported are now public. The record is clear. The usurpers remain in power orchestrating my country's misery. The only reasonable and just way forward is unambiguous: LEAVE and let my people LIVE.

It pains me to invoke Iqbal for those who betrayed this nation, but this verse is timeless:
جعفر از بنگال و صادق از دکن
ننگِ آدم، ننگِ دیں، ننگِ وطن
Jaffer of Bengal, Sadiq of Deccan,
Disgrace to humanity, disgrace to faith, disgrace to country.

The cipher has spoken. Now Pakistan must. 🇵🇰

[Raftar @raftardotcom]

کیا قاضی فائز عیسیٰ کا پاکستان تحریکِ انصاف سے انتخابی نشان "بلا" واپس لینے کا فیصلہ آئین و قانون کے مطابق تھا؟ سنیے معیز جعفری کا جواب۔
مکمل پوڈکاسٹ کا لنک کمنٹ سیکشن میں موجود ہے۔

[Ali Khalid @AliKAsad]

@KaterynaLis And people still waiting for GTA 6

[Shehbaz Sharif @CMShehbaz]

Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future. To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks. Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture. We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region.

@realDonaldTrump
@JDVance
@SecRubio
@SteveWitkoff
@SEPeaceMissions
@drpezeshkian
@mb_ghalibaf
@araghchi

[Ali Khalid @AliKAsad]

@Shehzad89 Feels like the explanation is quite clear.

[Ali Khalid @AliKAsad]

@DeafMango WTF :/

[Ali Khalid @AliKAsad]

@hj576 @syedmtaqi_ Nawaz in ICC tourneys is a nightmare. Was good before the WC.

[Ali Khalid @AliKAsad]

@DeafMango Happy Birthday bro!

[Ali Khalid @AliKAsad]

@DeafMango Well timed tweet with the context I needed. Thanks 😁

[Ali Khalid @AliKAsad]

@1_1nprecedented @DeafMango They should park this and make a new one.

[Ali Khalid @AliKAsad]

@DeafMango Feels like they have a plan with the Rawalpindi brand. And we know the Rawalpindi brand has big potential so might work out.

[Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar @mustafa_nawazk]

No honourable man can swallow the indignity of sharing the stage with war-criminal Netanyahu. His presence at the inaugural session of “board of peace” would tantamount to laundering of his crimes. Let’s see who from Pakistan dishonours himself, the Pakistani nation and thousands of dead Gazans?