Junaid

Journalist

[Nadir Baloch @BalochNadir5]

The UAE has deported tens of thousands of Pakistanis belonging to the Shia sect, not only deported them, but also took away all their wealth, bank accounts, and & hard earned assets, and sent them literally empty handed back to Pakistan.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The people who write these tweets and the people who employ them don’t deserve to have jobs in journalism.

Israel killed the Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil.

Just say that.

[Sami Hamdi سامي الهاشمي الحامدي @SALHACHIMI]

"Baba, I am invited to @PiersUncensored against someone who says nasty, hateful lies about Islam. What do you advise?"

@Malhachimi: "Son, don't just say the facts. Print them on paper and hold them up for everyone to see. Obliterate the lies with the clear, plain truth"

"Ok"

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi exposes the disastrous incompetence of the White House and Tel Aviv. He confirms Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched a catastrophic war in Iran with zero strategy for the aftermath. The American empire is completely lost.

[Junaid @Junaid_4Pak]

Really?

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

POTUS is laying out two courses of action—a negotiated settlement, or a major escalation.

There is a third option, and he should take it: recognize there is no way to force a positive outcome and simply leave.

The region is not ours to fix. President Reagan chose this path in Lebanon in ‘84, withdrawing U.S. forces after the Beirut barracks bombing once it became clear the mission’s stabilization goals could not be met, effectively ending direct American military involvement and avoiding a deeper quagmire and long-term entrenchment in the region.

A negotiated settlement is unlikely to work or be taken seriously by the Iranians unless we make concessions on the enrichment issue. As we saw yesterday in the SOH, the IRGC is empowered to act without the consent of the civilian leadership, so it’s likely they won’t honor any deal reached.

A major escalation will lead to a very destructive outcome for Iran, the region, and eventually the U.S. If POTUS chooses brute force and targets civilian infrastructure, we will create another generation of radicalized Iranians who will rally around the regime and escalate the war by any means possible.

If POTUS opts to strike the civilian infrastructure, declare victory, and then leave, we will only further erode our standing in the world, the petrodollar, and eventually our status as the world’s reserve currency holder. We need to get out now.

Don’t double down on failure. Avoid the sunken cost trap, leave now, and put America’s interests first.

[Sputnik India @Sputnik_India]

🚨 BRICS delivers a hammer blow to the dollar and SWIFT

The war with Iran has driven the final nail into the coffin of dollar dominance. The de-dollarisation train has left the station — and there is no reversing it.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s latest threats — warning that any Chinese banks handling Iranian oil payments will face sanctions — reek of desperation and signal America’s strategic defeat. Yet the reality is clear: sanctions on China, just like those on Russia, are losing their bite.

China-Russia trade now flows almost entirely without the dollar, and this model is rapidly spreading across BRICS nations. Love it or loathe it, the economic bloc has built robust alternative payment channels that neatly bypass the US financial system.

By linking their national payment platforms, BRICS countries are constructing a parallel financial architecture independent of SWIFT and American control. At its heart sit Russia’s SPFS and China’s CIPS — systems now playing a pivotal role in the group’s growing economic sovereignty.

Source: Aydinlik

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Ha llegado la hora de que la UE rompa su Acuerdo de Asociación con Israel.

No tenemos nada contra el pueblo de Israel, al contrario. Pero un Gobierno que viola el derecho internacional y, por tanto, los principios y valores de la UE no puede ser nuestro socio.

NO A LA GUERRA.

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

The biggest winner of the Trump administration so far? China 🇨🇳

Trump has done an incredible job of shifting the world’s perception of China. Right now EVERY SINGLE top United States ally now believes it better to rely on China than the United States

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Boaz Golani , an Israeli analyst has suggested that Pakistan or Turkey will take the place of Iran as Israel's arch nemesis in the region
https://t.co/zBjCy8fKTh

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Spain will ask the European Union to end its association agreement with Israel over alleged violations of international law, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said.

🔴LIVE updates: https://t.co/J6Ikyp1cxn

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

Araghchi’s tweet reflected an understanding in Tehran, likely based on what they heard from Pakistan, that if they took a positive step by opening Strait of Hormuz, US would reciprocate by lifting the blockade. But Trump kept the blockade in place, and through his many tweets, suggested that Iran was surrendering on the nuclear issue.

This has only fed Iran’s suspicions about Trump and that Islamabad like Geneva is a diplomatic ruse before another military attack. The door to diplomacy is not closed, but it has now become considerably more difficult. Deliberately or not, Trump has undermined diplomacy and raised likelihood of more war.

[StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭 @StarboySAR]

Pakistan quietly did something huge

To get Iran’s negotiators safely back to Tehran, it didn’t rely on “rules‑based order” — It launched ~24 Chinese‑built J‑10C fighters, AWACS and EW assets to cover the route

Diplomacy now flies under Chinese radar, not Western guarantees

This is what multipolar security looks like in practice: non‑Western states using Chinese-built airpower to protect diplomacy from U.S.–Israeli escalation games, because Western “norms” no longer protect anyone
https://t.co/fpGrWYziOx

[Caitlin Doornbos @CaitlinDoornbos]

https://t.co/iWMxJCYxw7

[The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post]

Following claims of a possible Israeli attack on the Iranian delegation, Pakistan's air force deployed two dozen jets, as well as the Airborne Warning and Control System for aerial surveillance, to escort negotiators home after inconclusive peace talks with the US.
https://t.co/WsSzCjPES1

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇳🇮🇱 India has spent a decade becoming the world's most sophisticated geopolitical balancer.

The Iran conflict just showed exactly where that strategy breaks.

Modi was literally in Tel Aviv when the war started. Nobody briefed him. That's not a small thing for a country that runs Chabahar port on Iran's coast, has 10 million workers sending remittances home from Gulf states, and routes 90% of its LNG through the Strait of Hormuz.

When the Strait got hot, LPG prices inside India spiked hard. Black market cooking gas cylinders hit 4,000 rupees. Regular Indians felt it immediately.

But the bigger geopolitical hit was this: Pakistan, the country India spent 20 years isolating on the world stage, became the primary US-Iran mediator.

One conflict. Pakistan goes from pariah to power broker. India goes from indispensable partner to surprised observer.

The strategy itself isn't broken. India is still what one analyst called "a geopolitical entrepreneur, able to balance all the opposing factors and maintain diplomatic relations with each of them." No other country of India's size pulls that off at scale.

But balancing works best when your partners don't go to war with each other. The moment they do, every side starts asking where you actually stand.

India doesn't have a clean answer to that question. And now everyone knows it.

Source: Reuters, US News, Al Jazeera

[Junaid @Junaid_4Pak]

.@JawadTehami right on the money

#Islamabadtalks

[Jawad Tehami @JawadTehami]

🚨 Breaking Exclusive: Jawad Tehami 🚨
President #Trump says he would go to #Islamabad if deal is signed. I had broken this news in my Vlog on 15-04-206
I said he will not lead negotiating team but he will visit #Pakistan after deal is signed. @realDonaldTrump #IslamabadTalks

[Sputnik @SputnikInt]

🇨🇳 China doubles AI computing power in two months — with zero US chips

China's largest scientific AI cluster just doubled its domestically-made accelerator chips from 30,000 to 60,000 units in two months, marking a significant step forward in the country's effort to establish a self-sufficient AI infrastructure.

The Zhengzhou core node is now the country's most powerful scientific AI infrastructure.

The goal was to create a unified AI platform using federal scientific data to:

🔸train models & AI agents that test hypotheses

While US lawmakers ban China from advanced chipmaking tools, Beijing leaps forward: years of drug discovery now take just days.

🔸automate research & speed up discoveries in drug development, materials science, and energy

Earlier, US lawmakers introduced a bill aimed to limit China's access to advanced chipmaking tools. Now, China's drug discovery calculations that once took years take just days.

[Junaid @Junaid_4Pak]

BRICS bank?

[Russia 24 @Urgent_Russia24]

🇷🇺Russia and China have declared that they will no longer use the U.S. dollar for any of their trade dealings.

[Sputnik @SputnikInt]

🇨🇳China is now 34% bigger than the US and 🇷🇺Russia leapfrogged Japan and Germany: this is the new economic reality.

🇮🇳 India is bigger than Japan + Germany combined.

This means the G lobal South (China + India + Russia + Brazil + Indonesia) already controls almost half of world PPP GDP — and they’re accelerating.