The price of power is commonsense.
For someone who ran the entire 2024 campaign on 'Common sense" this is as far from it as it could be.
Come November is going to be a brutal reality check for 2028.
Three questions. Three individuals. One glaring mystery. 🛂
🇬🇧 @ImranRiazKhan says he never applied for asylum and reached the #UK through the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has now arrived in #Geneva to speak at the Arshad Sharif Human Rights Award on the fourth anniversary of his assassination. Which passport did he use to travel?
🌍 @ARYSabirShakir says he still holds a Pakistani passport, reportedly cancelled by the Pakistani government. If so, how is he travelling internationally, Spain, Switzerland etc? Which passport is he using?
🇺🇸 @QasimKhanSuri travelled from Pakistan to the UK and then to the US. Which passport is he travelling on?
Three people. Three journeys. One simple question for each:
WHICH PASSPORT? And will anyone provide a clear answer?
Geopolitical Analyst Patrick Henningsen on MILITARY RULE in Pakistan:
"Field Marshal Asim Munir is only the military dictator because they locked up the democratically elected leader Imran Khan. That was done at the orders and insistence of Washington."
FREE IMRAN KHAN.
This asim munir dictatorship in Pakistan is mad they can't kidnap and torture people outside of Pakistan. Meanwhile everyone in Pakistan can be managed by kidnapping their families....
Following a stern reprimand from @MaryamNSharif,
@hinaparvezbutt has deleted her tweets; however, the internet is much like a tongue… once something has been said, it cannot be taken back.
Munir's comment today raises some questions:
-why did Pakistan close its border with Iran--was it a move taken in advance of today's talks, or was there a separate cause?
-why did Munir announce that borders were reopening? Was this always the plan, or did something happen in Tehran today that could facilitate this process?
Either way, a positive development for Iran.
Let me try to answer this. The “journalist” in question (who, as far as I can tell, has never even blogged) is PM @CMShehbaz’s trusted foreign policy advisor and speechwriter. The two share many common interests, such as deep admiration for Netanyahu and a love for fried chicken.
Colleagues in London say that she likes to show off the WhatsApp messages she regularly exchanges with the PM. She is on record saying that the PM gives her “secret documents” for safekeeping at her home. Because where else would the PM of a nuclear state secure his “secret documents” if not at the private home of a “journalist” living in a foreign capital?
The lady accompanied the PM on his trip to New York in his PAF aircraft last year. The ambassador’s predecessor famously ensured the midnight delivery of KFC zingers to her hotel room. We know all this because she posted it on X.
It’s reasonably safe to assume that the new high commissioner would have been instructed by the PM to invite her and give her an award – though doesn’t she already have a Sitara-e-Imtiaz?
So I think @MIshaqDar 50, @KhawajaMAsif and even my favorites Sir @TararAttaullah and Uncle @OfficialDGISPR are blameless in this regard.
Btw, was KFC ordered for the meeting @PakistaninUK?
🚨 BREAKING NEWS | CHAGHI, BALOCHISTAN
Armed attackers targeted the #YakMach Police Station at around 4:30 AM today, triggering a massive explosion that completely destroyed the building.
🔴 No casualties reported so far.
🔴 SHO Yak Mach is at the scene.
🔴 Further details are awaited.
#Balochistan #Chaghi
Once the West recognizes that cheap drones and ballistic missiles — plus AI lowering the barrier of entry for their development — means that total victory and subjugation of smaller countries is no longer possible without unacceptably high costs, the result longterm *should* be a world at much more peace, where diplomacy actually matters as a means to keeping that peace
@solaafghanistan’s director, funded by the Malala Fund, is paid more than the Malala Fund CEO.
Malala Fund CEO: approx. $372,000/year
Sola CEO: $420,000/year
Shabana Jan pays herself nearly $35,000/month 😬
Crazy numbers for “nonprofit” organizations.
Even crazier in Afghanistan’s context.
🚨 #THINK 🤔 | SAVE THIS TWEET!
The Long March was announced for 4 October, yet @SohailAfridiISF kept touring #Pashtunkhwa from the 4th to the 11th… today!
Coincidence? Or is there a bigger game at play?
My assessment: the pieces are being positioned for the #28thAmendment, and #Pashtunkhwa could become the testing ground for the first provincial administrative model outlined in the blueprint.
Watch what happens next. The real game may be bigger than a Long March.
📌 SAVE THIS TWEET. Remember this prediction.
I strongly condemn the latest attack on feudal democracy in Pakistan, this time in the form of emergency rule in KP.
As a communist, my vision for Pakistan is a loose confederation of ethnically pure fiefdoms, each governed by its own democratic hereditary landlords, tribal chieftains, & provincialist petty-bourgeois intelligentsia—free from the tyranny of the bonapartist jihadi junta.
Protest against Governor's Rule or Emergency:
In Khyber District, Bada Market in Bara Tehsil, people are on the streets. We will not allow Governor's Rule or Emergency to be imposed under any circumstances.
Tea in Kabul is surprisingly expensive.
That one cup cost Faiz Hameed 14 years in prison and it cost Pakistan thousands of dead soldiers.
And something tells me the full bill hasn’t even arrived yet.