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[Concerned Pakistani @CorneredPaki]

One of the best threads on Kashmir and it's comparison with Balochistan. Well done @_merajhasan !

[Hope @_hopesprings1]

Continuing with the Balochistan accession thread, here is a study of how Kashmir acceded to India. Focus is on similarities and differences between the two accessions.

[Concerned Pakistani @CorneredPaki]

@Ofer_binshtok Said by the supporter of Zionist ideology which has made Jews throughout the world unsafe since its inception.
Turkey (Ottomans) was the safe haven for Jews when the Europeans were clutching their throats.
PS. Israel is an existential threat to humanity.

[Amir Mateen @AmirMateen2]

احسن اقبال آپ کی ساری زندگی جھوٹ پر مبنی ہے۔ میں نے وقت لیا آپ کو جواب دینے میں۔ کچھ لحاظ کے تقاضے تھے۔ مگر اب جواب دے رہا ہوں۔ نواز شریف کی جس ترقی کے سفر کا ڈھول آپ پیٹ رہے ہیں اس نے ملک کو تباہ کر دیا۔ آج پاکستان اس قرضوں کے جال میں ان کی غلط پالیسی اور آپ جیسے پلاننگ کے مشیروں کی وجہ پھنسا ہوا ہے۔ دو پراجیکٹ جس کے لیے وہ کریڈٹ مانگتے ہیں وہ پاکستان کا ناسور تھے۔ پہلا لوڈ شیڈنگ کو ختم کرنے کے لیے پہلے نوے کی دہائ اور پھر اپنی تیسری گورنمنٹ (2014-15) میں کیے آئ پی پی کے کرپٹ معاہدے تھے۔ اس میں ریاست کا مفاد نہی دیکھا گیا اور ان سیٹھوں کو جو یا رشتہ دار تھے یا پارٹنر نوازا گیا۔ اب بھی ہم ان کو دو ہزار ارب سالانہ سے زیادہ منافع دے رہے ہیں چاہے وہ اک یونٹ بھی بجلی نہ بنائیں۔ چھیالیس ہزار میگا واٹ بجلی کی کہ��سیٹی ہے مگر پچیس بھی نہی بنا پا رہے۔ اس جرم کا کون زمہ دار ہے۔ دوسرا جو سڑکوں کا جال بنانے کا تمغہ لیا جاتا ہے۔ مودی نے اسی ہزار کلومیٹر سڑکیں بھارت میں بنائیں مگر اپنے پیسے سے۔ ہم نے اس کے مقابلے بہت کم بنایا مگر ڈالر کے قرضے میں۔ میں مال بنانے کا الزام نہی لگا رہا مگر ملک اس وقت ان دو بڑے پراجیکٹ کی وجہ سے قرضے کے جال میں پھنسا ہے۔ ہمارا ڈیبٹ یعنی قرضہ بحران جس سے ہمارا کرنٹ اکائونٹ، تجارتی اور بجٹ خسارے جنم لیتے ہیں۔ یہ کہنا کہ موقع نہی ملا۔ کتنا موقع چاہیے۔ پچھلے چار سال سے پورا موقع تھا۔ نہ عدالت نہ اپوزیشن نہ پارلیمان نہ میڈیا۔ ایسا موقع تو آمریت میں نہی ملا۔ کیا کیا آپ نے۔ قرضے چتالیس ہزار ارب سے اسی ہزار ارب تک ہو گئے۔ پاکستان کی تاریخ چھوڑیں مونجھوداڑو کے زمانے سے پنتالیس فیصد غربت پانچ دریاؤں کے دھرتی میں نہی دیکھی گئ۔ بائیس فیصد بیروزگاری۔ پچاس سال میں پہلی دفعہ ساری بڑی فصلوں میں گراوٹ۔ اس پر بھی آپ شرمندہ نہی بلکہ جھوٹ بول رہے ہیں کہ ہمیں موقعہ نہی ملا۔ اگر میرے کسی خیال سے اختلاف ہو تو میں کئ دفعہ آپ کو ٹی وی پر بلا چکا کہ مجھے غلط ثابت کر لیں۔ محظ پراپیگنڈا نہ کریں۔ مزید جواب پر میں پھر حاظر ہوں۔ اب اس جواب کو کتنا تھراٹل کروائیں گیں۔

[Crafters Warrior @tech_crafters]

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[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

[Predictive History @PredicHistory]

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A 2024 lecture by Predictive History called the US–Iran war with frightening precision.
It called: Trump as the trigger. The Israel Lobby. Saudi Arabia's survival motive. The false nuclear pretext. The protest narrative.
All of it. A thread on why this war was structurally inevitable. 🧵

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

20 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PROTESTS IN IRAN

1. Allegations of “mass casualties” among Iran protesters are not dependable. They come from a group called Center for Human Rights in Iran. The Center for Human Rights in Iran is NOT in Iran. It is in New York.

2. Is it an Iranian group? No. It is financed by the CIA-adjacent National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC and related bodies, specializing in disinformation.

3. It is led by the people of Iran? No. The chairwoman is Minky Worden, an American who ran anti-China campaigns for many years. She tried to get the Beijing winter Olympics renamed "the genocide Olympics" and cancelled. She failed.

4. Previously, Ms Worden worked closely with the Hong Kong "pro-democracy" movement (also NED-funded) and her husband was on the board of Apple Daily and had a contract with the Pentagon. Yes, the US regime-change operations around the world are THAT incestuous.

5. The other main source of unbelievable tales of massive protests and huge numbers of deaths in Iran are coming from the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). This is also a NED-funded, US-based disinformation outlet.

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IN REALITY, IRANIANS HAVE BECOME LESS ANTI-GOVERNMENT

6. Having said that, protest groups against the Iranian government do exist, but they are not large. Western groups including the NED-funded media, and the Persian service of Voice of America, have spent years cultivating anti-government groups.

But Trump’s bombing campaigns, and Israel’s shocking behavior in Gaza, has meant Iranians have become very notably LESS anti-government, not more.

This is important.

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THE LOUDEST VOICE

7. The loudest and most prominent Iranian “protest leader” quoted in the west is Masih Alinejad, a women who was salaried by NED for years, and currently works for the US Agency for Global Media.

8. Which part of Iran does she live in? No part of Iran. She lives in the US.

9. What’s her professional background? Propaganda. Her job was and is to push pro-US anti-Iran propaganda through various media services. Despite this, she is quoted in the media as if she is a reliable source of news from the people of Iran.

10. Press reports show that between 2015 and 2022 alone, Masih Alinejad received US$628,000 in funding from NED and related groups. And yes, this regime-change campaigner received a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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'U.S. CAN CREATE A POPULAR UPRISING'

11. Remember Mahsa Jina Amini, a woman said to have been beaten to death by Iran police for wearing her hijab wrongly? Masih Alinejad pushed that tale, but it was debunked by a security video, which showed that no one was standing near her when she collapsed through a medical issue.

12. A 2009 Brookings policy paper "Which Path to Persia?" goes into detail about how the US can take control of Iran. The idea would be to create mobs attacking government facilities, which can be labelled a “popular uprising” by the media, and by fostering division in multiple ways and putting puppet leaders in control.

Variations of this US game plan have been used multiple times around the world.

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WOMEN'S RIGHTS

13. Why is so much of the US propaganda about Iran based on alleged violations of women’s rights? Because similar US disinformation operations in other places, such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, showed that women’s rights made western audiences angrier faster than weaponization of the usual western “Big Three” propaganda lines: Democracy, freedom and human rights.

14. Is the “strictly hijabs only” tale true? No. In general, women in Iran do prefer to dress modestly in Islamic fashion, but it’s far more relaxed and tolerant that the US propagandists pretend.

Think of the religious dress codes of Indonesia and Malaysia, for example, where most people dress modestly and religiously, but the atmosphere is tolerant and reasonable.

15. What about the atrocity stories of ill-treated women? They are invented and circulated by US and Israeli sources: the US has long had an atrocity fabrication department (see AB Abram’s research for numerous examples of their work worldwide).

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INFILTRATION
16. Academic essays apparently “proving” that most Iranians want a US-allied leadership appear in The Journal of Democracy – which is portrayed as if it was a university-style academic publication, but it's actually a NED magazine.

17. NED operatives have spent years in Iran, funding scholars and journalists to build up a stranglehold in many educational, civic and media groups, just as they did in Hong Kong, and have done in many places.

18. A widely quoted group from Iranian politics is the Foundation for Democracy in Iran. This is also not Iranian. It is funded by NED and the executive director is American activist Kenneth R. Timmerman.

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HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
19. Iranians are smart. They know about NED and nickname it “National Enemy of Democracy”.

20. Western mainstream media reports (BBC, Guardian, Reuters etc) on Iran absolutely CANNOT be trusted. They have a long history of downplaying, or, more usually, completely hiding the western manipulation processes that create regime change.

If you support the people of Iran, you need to know all this. The world needs to stand with Iran and tell the US that we've had enough.

[Concerned Pakistani @CorneredPaki]

@jk_rowling https://t.co/DFy4p2K6Vh

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Anyone paying attention can see the pattern.

First they isolate you.

Then they sanction you.

Then they fund "civil society."

Then they arm your opposition.

Then they cry for your women and children on television, while quietly sharpening the knife for your sovereignty.

They did it to Chile.

They did it to Libya.

They did it in Syria.

They did it in Venezuela.

They're doing it to Iran right now.

"Maximum pressure" is the siege.

"Responsibility to protect" is the alibi.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Anyone paying attention can see the pattern.

First they isolate you.

Then they sanction you.

Then they fund "civil society."

Then they arm your opposition.

Then they cry for your women and children on television, while quietly sharpening the knife for your sovereignty.

They did it to Chile.

They did it to Libya.

They did it in Syria.

They did it in Venezuela.

They're doing it to Iran right now.

"Maximum pressure" is the siege.

"Responsibility to protect" is the alibi.

[Kamran I Siddiqui @KamranISiddiqu1]

@enkidureborn

[Concerned Pakistani @CorneredPaki]

@yousef_ki1 .

[Dan Cohen @dancohen3000]

Left: Zionist propaganda depicting Palestinians as rats with the caption “Exterminator wanted for Gaza”

Right: Nazi propaganda depicting Jews as rats with caption “When the vermin are dead, the German oak will flourish once more”

Zionism = Nazism

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

"How could it be done to you and your ancestors, and you turn around and do it to someone else?"

American Jewish actor and singer Mandy Patinkin called Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu dangerous for Jews globally and denounced Israel’s war on Gaza.

[Dan Cohen @dancohen3000]

Zionist forces brutally assault Orthodox Jews in the streets of Jerusalem for opposing genocide in Gaza. Haven’t seen this kind of state violence against Jews since Nazi Germany. Images like this destroy the myth that the State of Israel is Jewish.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

🚨🇮🇱 I CAN‘T STAND THIS PROPAGANDA ANYMORE.

Yes, I’m glad that Israeli hostages have been freed. And just as glad that Palestinian prisoners have been released. But a few things need to be made clear:

FIRST: It’s absurd that Israelis are called “hostages” while Palestinians are labeled “prisoners.” That’s propaganda. It’s the same thing: human beings who’ve had their freedom taken away, on both sides.

SECOND: The released Israeli hostages appear well-fed, smiling, not a single kilo lost. Clearly treated well under the circumstances. In contrast, the Palestinian prisoners look like they’ve just walked out of a death camp: emaciated, scarred, aged by years of abuse. Tortured. And no one talks about it.

THIRD: Everywhere I read: “Hamas killed all the women, only men were released.” That’s simply a lie. A malicious one. The women who were still alive had already been released in earlier exchange deals. But facts don’t matter when it’s time to push the next hate-driven narrative for $7000.

FOURTH: Everyone talks about a handful of Israeli hostages, but no one mentions the tens of thousands of Palestinian hostages abducted by Israel. Many of them children. Imprisoned without charges, without trial.

FIFTH: And no one talks about the tens of thousands of civilians killed in Israel’s genocide.

SIXTH: While the ‘ceasefire’ (it’s just a matter of time until Israel breaks it again) is being celebrated, radical Israeli settlers are still violently stealing land in the West Bank; with full impunity. They break international law daily, and no one seems to care.

SEVENTH: Politicians across the world are shamelessly cucking for Israel, offering blind support while refusing to even mention the crimes committed in Gaza, the ongoing apartheid in the West Bank, or the endless aggression toward neighboring countries.

EIGHTH: The same governments and media that claim to stand for human rights, international law, and “never again” are now either silent or fully complicit: funding, arming, and excusing an apartheid regime in real time. When Palestinian lives are dehumanized, erased, and bombed into dust, suddenly all those values vanish

So no, I will not take part in this propaganda. I will not whitewash Israel’s crimes.

And yes, I still stand by my words: A STATE LIKE ISRAEL SHOULD NOT EXIST.

[Open Minded Approach @OMApproach]

You can reach God only in a whirlwind. Your heart is helical in shape and creates powerful vortices. If you purify your internal energy through your heart and make it lighter than a feather, then you can reach God.

Now, what makes you feel like you can float, or what makes you feel butterflies, and what is driving you down and making you anxious?

[Ziad Nimer @ziad_nimer]

@OMApproach The genesis.
AI is the beast (666)
Prepare for enslavery. They will control us as in China now. Everything is controlled.
Welcome to the world of machine.

[Concerned Pakistani @CorneredPaki]

We're no fans of #TLP, its ideologies, its rhetoric and its methods, but what the state is doing to them is criminally wrong and I condemn it wholly. Protest is a democratic right. Let ppl express themselves in a civil manner 4 Pakistan's sake.
#TLPMarchForPalestine
#TLP_PROTEST

[Concerned Pakistani @CorneredPaki]

@OMApproach CFBR.

[ZEShan ⚫ @zeshmohmand]

کلپ آف دا سنچری🔥
عمران خ��ن کے بچپن سے لے کر اب تک کی پوری داستان اس کلپ میں دکھائی گئی ہے۔