PCB threatened Lord’s Test boycott after Sky Sports telecast interview of Imran Khan’s two sons recorded at the Lord’s Cricket Ground
PCB wants SKY to not air the interview, or else they won't take the field post-lunch 🧐
Here's the full interview 👇🏻
China Just Crossed 1,000 Gigawatts of Solar Power - The largest amount any country has ever installed.
Equal to the entire electricity capacity of the United States.
Pakistan’s top Muslim cleric declares Houthis NOT MUSLIM at a Saudi Arabia conference
‘Houthis have no connection whatsoever to Islam
Anyone who opposes Saudi Arabia is an ENEMY TO ISLAM and ALL MUSLIMS’ — Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Ashrafi, head of Pakistan Ulema Council
AUSTERITY Plan Dead: Govt squanders Rs 9.6 BILLION to buy 45 LUXURY bullet-proof limousines (BMW & MERCEDES) ostensibly for SCO Summit in Pakistan in 2027, when SCO has only 10 members! 45 cars bought for 9 visiting foreign leaders (including India)? Who is Govt trying to fool?
Dr. Marandi just described the US policy perfectly:
"The other guest is openly genocidal. He's talking about starving the Iranian people to trigger an 'organic revolution.' That's the opposite of organic - that's let's kill the kids, let's kill the women. Starve the people, make them suffer, because they don't like the revolution.
This is deeply sinister. It shows the nature of the U.S. empire. There's a lust in the United States to make Iranians starve. It's a deep sickness."
🚨🇮🇳🇵🇰Pakistan ARY News Journalist asking Questions in UN India Foreign Minister Jaishankar Why Indian Sponsered Terrorism inside Pakistan why assassinated Sikhs Leaders In USA🇺🇸 Canada🇨🇦 shamelessly Jaishankar Walk Out they have nots guts to face Media..
#NationSalutesCDF
BREAKING: Iran’s Speaker of the Parliament Ghalibaf makes a post celebrating the US 10Y Note Yield rising above 5.10%.
“Happy 5.1% 10Y America, we’ll return you to 1970s rates,” he says.
🚨 BREAKING:
In Tokyo, tens of thousands gathered outside parliament, demanding the prime minister's resignation over his support for the U.S. and Israel.
The Japanese people are showing incredible determination.
Prominent Muslim countries missing from List of Countries which walked out:
United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan & Kazakhstan!
Alastair Crooke (@AWCrooke): Saudi Arabia is a pillar for one family. If it is no longer oil wealth for Wall Street and the petrodollar, there is nothing there. MBS had Trump as his security. That is gone. The reserves went into NEOM. He cannot deal with Ansar Allah because Washington runs the state.
“Saudi is a pillar that rests on one person, one family—one family that gerrymandered the succession so that they can become king. Don’t forget Salman changed the succession. It’s supposed to go from brother to brother to brother, and he changed all of that. He has alienated most of the family. It rests on a very fragile pillar. Unless they are seen as the source of oil wealth for Wall Street, for the petrodollar, for Washington—if that cannot be sustained—then what is there to Saudi Arabia? Nothing. There’s nothing there beyond that.
This is a huge humiliation in terms of Saudi culture. MBS had Trump on his side. This was his security. This was his basis for going ahead. And suddenly it’s clear to all the rivals, all those people in his own family. You recall the Ritz-Carlton episode, where he literally imprisoned them in a hotel and hung them upside down until all the money came out of their pockets. They were just literally humiliated. Some of them have disappeared. Some of them have been humiliated. And there are the tribes that have been largely dispossessed of their income. So what’s going to happen?
Well, there’s no money. The reserves that were built up. No one’s getting paid at the moment. Contracts, building sites—nothing is being paid. There is no money to pay anything. There’s no money to buy people out. There was a big reserve built up of cash, but most of that has gone on these big projects like the NEOM hotel and these other projects, and there’s none of that left.
So bin Salman is on his own there, with everyone looking and wondering. This is the end of a colonial structure. The colonial structure is collapsing in the Gulf, and the Saudis are the lynchpin of that. Why doesn’t he just do a deal with the Yemenis? The answer is he’s just too embedded in the United States structures. He can’t do it. He’s always been wholly embedded with US presidents, with the US military structures, down to the last element. They run the state for him, and he just cannot do it. He cannot make a deal with the Houthis.
The consequences are huge. Saudi Arabia is not selling oil. It doesn’t have money. It’s not allowed to sell its treasuries. It’s been trying to sell shares, but even its allies in the Gulf don’t want to buy them except at a huge discount, because they’re not sure that Saudi will be there as we know it tomorrow or the next day, or next month. There’s a great reluctance, even from Gulf allies, to come and help him out.
We’re seeing a huge shift. All of these post-colonial states are hanging by a thread, because Saudi Arabia and its connections with Israel—and its use by Israel as an Israeli platform over many, many years—have been the pivot for the whole Gulf region. Everyone is watching that.
At the same time, Iran is mobilizing a million people into these self-sacrifice battalions of a thousand people each. A million! This isn’t to defend against some expeditionary force from the United States coming and landing on the other side of the Hormuz. I don’t think that’s even possible. I don’t think it’s likely to happen. I don’t think they can go; where would they launch from? How would they arrive? What would be the transport? Who would supply them? How would they fight? What would be the purpose of it? I think in Washington and the Pentagon, everyone came to the conclusion to pursue this, to go on with war against the Houthis, who have effectively won against Saudi Arabia. It seems pointless and would end badly, end much worse, because it might widen and become a much wider regional war involving Iraq. If I were Bahrain or Kuwait seeing the Iranians mobilizing a million men, I would be very frightened indeed. I’m sure they are.
This was the bedrock of Israeli policy, the big gamble: to isolate, defame and undermine Iran and to base everything on the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia as the means to assimilate itself into the Middle East—into the region. Now that is visibly shaking before their eyes.
Inflation is everywhere. It has gone global. The crisis that was coming has come. It’s arrived. Inflation everywhere is going up because everything moves by diesel in Europe and in America. That’s the delivery system. The trains, often the boats, survive on diesel. So everything is going up. Prices are going up everywhere. Airfares are going up.”
The City built the Gulf on oil, garrisons, and a dollar ledger. The physical economy is sending the bill.
🇺🇸🇮🇳 U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau in the middle of New Delhi told Indians that India will not be allowed to develop to the point where it can compete with the US.
Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, in today's Sept 21 anniversary speech, on the Saudi claim to Mecca:
"We do not consider Mecca a Saudi emirate. We consider it a sacred site for all Muslims equally."
Then the history the royal title buries: the Saudis did not inherit Mecca, they conquered it. In 1924 Ibn Saud's Ikhwan stormed Taif and massacred its residents -- women and children included -- then took Mecca, ending Hashemite custodianship of the holy sites.
Al-Houthi's charge is that the genocide runs from that day to this:
"Since his emergence and his occupation of Mecca, he has committed in Mecca the most horrific crimes, and these are historical facts. ... Three thousand unarmed pilgrims, whom he completely exterminated -- from Yemen, from the Yemeni people -- and this Saudi still bears responsibility for it."
"And despite that, he is the one who handed the kiswa of the Kaaba to the criminal Jewish infidel Jeffrey Epstein, to make part of the kiswa a carpet trodden under his shoes, and part of it an object of desecration in his satanic rituals."
‘Our goal is to catch up with and surpass the United States🇺🇸. This will take at least 50 years, perhaps 75 years…75 years means 15 five-year plans.’
-Chairman Mao Zedong, 1955.
China🇨🇳 just started its 15th 5-year plan in 2026 and has already surpassed the US in GDP @ PPP.
China has also overtaken the US in:
Total manufacturing output
Total R&D spending
Scientific publication volume
AI patent output
Electric vehicle production
Electric vehicle exports
Battery manufacturing
Solar-panel manufacturing
Wind-power equipment manufacturing
Shipbuilding
Commercial ship orders
High-speed rail network
High-speed rail technology and deployment
5G infrastructure/equipment
Telecommunications equipment
Rare-earth processing/refining
Industrial-scale production of many critical minerals/materials
Drones and commercial drone manufacturing
Electrical equipment
Railway equipment
Large-scale charging infrastructure
Overall industrial supply-chain depth
Automobile production
Automobile exports
Steel production
Aluminium production
Cement production
Coal production
Container-port throughput
New-energy manufacturing
When Xi Jinping meets Trump, he meets Trump as the leader of the rising superpower that is surpassing the US on increasingly more metrics.
Trump meets Xi as the leader of a divided nation embroiled in a multitude of crises, with its best days firmly behind it.