🚨 | Fernando Alonso on the AMR26:
"In Australia, we found our engine was down.
"In China, we found our energy was down.
"In Monaco, we found our chassis is bad.
"In Miami, we found our gearbox is very bad."
NEW: Türkiye and Saudi Arabia signed a railway cooperation MoU in Riyadh, advancing plans for a modern Hejaz Railway revival — a rail corridor linking Saudi Arabia through Jordan and Syria to Türkiye.
Long-term vision includes extending the line toward Oman and the Indian Ocean as an alternative trade route bypassing the Strait of Hormuz.
🚨🚨| Only THREE players have scored in a Champions League final with two different teams:
→ Kai Havertz (Chelsea, Arsenal)
→ Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd, Real Madrid)
→ Mario Mandzukic (Juventus, Bayern Munich)
You’ll be surprised by the amount of money being invested in the hospitality industry in Pakistan. New resorts and hotels (unlike the ones seen before) are opening up in KP and GB.
Largest hotel in Naran to open next year at Batakundi
How Pakistan made the world over 3 trillion dollars richer
On April 7, the world edged toward Trump's 8pm ultimatum that "a whole civilization will die tonight." By mid-afternoon, Polymarket gave less than a 5% chance for a ceasefire. But then in a flurry of last-minute diplomacy led by Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif, ceasefire odds shifted from near-impossibility to 100%, as both U.S. and Iranian leadership publicly acknowledged the important role played by Pakistan.
The sharp shift in probability of ceasefire from near-zero to certainty, allows us to estimate cleanly the market value of Pakistan's successful diplomacy. There was a sharp jump of 2.9% in S&P500 around the ceasefire announcement. The reaction was similar the world over.
Global markets represent about $125T, so a 2.9% jump represents a gain of 3.6 trillion dollars for the world. Pakistan helped create TEN times its own GDP for the world!
For me, the best part is not the trillions of dollar, but seeing Pakistan on the world stage as a peace maker.
I hope Pakistan runs with this new identity by promoting peace not only abroad, but also at home. That means moving away from politics of division and exclusion, and treating every citizen as its own.
IF the strait of Hormuz opens and goes back to usual traffic, that will be around an average of 135 ships per day.
135 ships x 14 days= 1890 ships will pass through the strait of Hormuz the next 14 days.
If Iran charges $2 million, and they split it with Oman, that is 1.89 billion dollars that Iran will make in the next 14 days.
IF it stays open permanently and Iran is able to charge the $2m (and keep the 1m), that is almost $50 billion dollars per year for Iran that they will make yearly due to this war.
Plenty of money to spend on the ballistic missile program! (And reconstruction obviously)