Hazrat Wali

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[Sanaullah Khan @SanaullahDawn]

مسابقتی کمیشن کی ابھی سیمنٹ سیکٹر کی سٹڈی رپورٹ پڑھیں جسکے مطابق سمینٹ کی قیمت میں پچاس فیصد ٹیکس ہے۔گاڑیوں کی کل قیمت میں ٹیکس کی شرح 42% سے %65 ہے۔ ٹویوٹا کے سی ای او جمالی صاحب کے مطابق فارچونر گاڑی کی سیل پرائس اس وقت دو کروڑ 48 لاکھ روپے ہے انکے مطابق اسمیں ایک کروڑ 48 روپے ٹیکس ہے۔۔ اسکے علاؤہ تنخواہ دار پر ٹیکس کی شرح دیکھ لیں،کمپنیوں پر 50% سے زیادہ ہے بجلی،گیس بلوں پر کئی قسم کے ٹیکس اور پیٹرولیم پر بھاری لیوی ۔۔پھر بھی کہتے ہیں ٹارگٹ پورا نہیں ہوتا۔

[Iftikhar Firdous @IftikharFirdous]

The arrival of the Iranian delegation in Islamabad received by the Field Marshal and Deputy PM. [Video Credits: MoFA Pakistan]

[Zainab Qureshi @Zeeque22]

Nida Yasir to JD Vance:

Peace Talks mai kitne piece hotay hen?

[Saqib Bashir @saqibbashir156]

پٹرول کی ایک لیٹر 458 روپے قیمت میں سے 187 روپے حکومت ٹیکس لے رہی ہے جو کہ ایک لیٹر پر 40 فیصد بنتا ہے ، مفتاح اسماعیل

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

If American bases on your soil are used to bomb Muslims, and you still call Iran the problem, then your qibla is no longer Mecca.

It is Washington.

[Aitzaz Hussain Mayo ☭ @aitzaz_mayo]

Afghans and the Taliban are two mutually exclusive and antithetical entities. It is ignorance to consider them the same.

But TTP and TTA are the same since inception.

[Sher Ali Arbab @saarbab]

It is a war crime to bomb schools, hospitals and other civilian installations. No army or airforce has the right to do this and call itself moral.
Pakistan must come clean on the bombing of drug rehab centre.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Hazrat Wali @H_wali1]

د طالبانو په شریعت کې خائستہ هلکان او چرس بالکل ګناه نه ګڼل کیږي. خو هلکان یوازې د کمانډرانو لپاره دي، چرس ټولو مجاهدینو لپاره او د عوامو لپاره یوازې لواړ (ډنډه)

[Ustad Barmak @Barmakf]

Here is a Taliban commander who claims to enforce Sharia law patrolling the streets with his ‘pretty bacha.’ Don’t mistake the bacha for a girl, he appears wearing makeup in every clip filmed with the commander.

This is the reality in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan: women are banned from public life while bacha bazi, the sexual exploitation of teenage boys, continues openly.

[Syeda Zahra @ZahraShahPTI]

ایرانی مُلا شہادت کی تمنا لئے تڑپ رہے ہے
پاکستانی مُلا چندے، صدقہ، زکوۃ فطرانہ کے لئے مچل رہے ہے.

[Zia Ullah Hamdard @JournalistZia]

ملا افغانستان کا ہو یا پاکستان کا پنجابی جرنیلوں اور ایسٹ انڈیا کمپنی کے آلہ کار ہیں، ان لوگوں کی دین فروشی کی وجہ سے اس خطے میں نا تو امن آسکتا ہے اور نا ہی کوئی عوامی سیاست ہوسکتی ہے۔ یورپ نے تین سو سال قبل اس مخلوق کو عبادت گاہوں تک محدود کیا تھا اور ہمارے ہاں اربوں ڈالر خرچ کرکے ان کو فسادی (جہادی)، فتوے باز اور کمپنی کے آلہ کار بناکر عوام کو ملاملٹری الائنس کے ذریعے محکوم بنادیا ہے۔ جس دن ملا کو مسجد تک محدود کردیا جائے گا اس دن اس خطے میں ترقی اور انسانی فلاح و بہبود ممکن ہوسکے گا۔

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

A reminder that it took $2.5T and 20 years to replace to Taliban with the Taliban.

[Hazrat Wali @H_wali1]

@RepYassAnsari Stability and democracy? Tell that to the millions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria you liberated into endless chaos and graves,
You hypocrites bombed thousands of women and children, turned countries into rubble, called it liberation and left chaos behind.

[Ali A Olomi @aaolomi]

Germany, France, and UK when US was discussing invading Greenland: 😡

Germany, France, and UK when US invades Iran: 😍

nothing unites colonizers like killing people in the global south

[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."

[Naimat Khan @NKMalazai]

ضیغم صاحب، یہ ہدف آپ کو اُس وقت کیوں یاد نہ آیا جب کابل پر قبضے کے لیے طالبان کی مدد کی جا رہی تھی؟ اُس وقت سرحد کے اُس پار سے صاف آوازیں اٹھ رہی تھیں کہ جنہیں آپ اپنے لیے پسند نہیں کرتے، اُنہیں ہم پر کیوں مسلط کیا جا رہا ہے؟ بعض نے تو راحت اندوری کے الفاظ میں خبردار بھی کیا تھا:

لگے گی آگ تو آئیں گے گھر کئی زد میں
یہاں پہ صرف ہمارا مکان تھوڑی ہے

خیر، اب اگر یہ خیال آ ہی گیا ہے تو براہِ کرم اسے وقتی مصلحت کے لیے دوبارہ نہ بدلیے گا۔ آپ کی مصلحتوں کے چکر میں نسلیں اجڑ گئی ہیں۔

[Naimat Khan @NKMalazai]

اگر آپ کو “اچھا جی” والی ویڈیو میں خرابی نظر نہیں آرہی ہے تو معذرت ، آپ کی سوچ میں خرابی ہے۔ آپ racist ہیں۔ طالبان کو نشانہ بنانے پر کسی کو اعتراض نہیں ہے۔ وہ تو ویسے بھی آپ کی پیداوار ہیں اور آپ کے تعاون سے اقتدار میں آئے ہیں۔ اعتراض عام افغانوں کی تضحیک اور مذاق اڑانے پر ہے۔

[Hazrat Wali @H_wali1]

@cyalm Said it years ago, yet some people became their apologists. The establishment bred them here, handed them power, and celebrated their victory.
https://t.co/Ljr0hvTae9

[Hazrat Wali @H_wali1]

@Nomadzai Agree with you sir only dead Taliban are good Taiban

[Mohammad Taqi @mazdaki]

Looking it at the Taliban & Pak Twitter warriors glorifying war that will invariably kill & displace Pashtuns on both sides of the Durand, one is again reminded of General Sherman’s words: There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell

[asher. @ikstaaanacc]

Thank God social media exists. Otherwise, all the secret operations carried out in KP before today would have gone completely unnoticed. If only the oppression back then had been shared as well, the situation today wouldn’t be what it is.