بٹ واۓ؟

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[بٹ واۓ؟ @KashiUstaad]

Most apt reference that jumped to my mind was

"Beneath this mask there is more than flesh, Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof."

V for Vendetta

A movie which has a lot many similarities to today and the near future of Pakistan.

[Murtaza Solangi @murtazasolangi]

نیا حکم نامہ
جاوید اختر

[Syed Muzammil Shah @SyedMuzammilOFL]

I hope they don’t put this tweet in the script of Dhurandhar-3. Thank you for your attention to this matter: DJT

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: In 1971, a Pakistani aircraft carried Henry Kissinger secretly from Islamabad to Beijing, and the flight that nobody saw rewired the entire Cold War. Tomorrow, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar flies the same route for the same reason: to broker a superpower realignment through the only country trusted by both sides of a war reshaping the global order.

Here is what has unfolded in 96 hours.

On Saturday, Islamabad hosted foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt for a quadrilateral summit on the Iran war. After the meeting, Dar confirmed that both the United States and Iran have expressed their “confidence” in Pakistan to facilitate talks. All four foreign ministers endorsed Pakistan hosting direct or indirect US-Iran negotiations.

On Thursday, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Dar that China “appreciates Pakistan’s untiring efforts” and “supports Pakistan in continuing to play a mediating role.” Wang stated that dialogue is the only way to “help restore normal navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.” That last phrase is the tell. China is not expressing abstract support for peace. It is naming the specific commercial outcome it requires: Hormuz open, oil flowing, supply chains reconnected. Tomorrow Dar arrives in Beijing to secure explicit backing for Islamabad as the venue.

Consider the structural position. Pakistan delivered the US 15-point peace plan to Iran. Pakistan maintains its “all-weather” partnership with China, reaffirmed by Wang Yi in January. Pakistan signed a mutual defence agreement with Saudi Arabia in September 2025. Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir lunched with Trump at the White House. Sharif spoke to Iran’s President Pezeshkian for over an hour on Saturday. No other country on Earth has live, trusted channels to Washington, Tehran, Beijing, and Riyadh simultaneously. The last country that occupied this structural position was Pakistan itself, in 1971, when it carried Kissinger secretly to Mao.

The variable every analyst is missing is what China actually needs. China imports roughly 1.5 million barrels per day of Iranian crude. China controls 90 percent of rare earth processing and 99 percent of gallium. The United States needs rare earths for defence, semiconductors, and energy transition. The geometry of a grand bargain, in which oil access for China is traded against rare earth supply security for the United States, with Hormuz reopened and Kharg Island accessed through negotiation rather than seizure, runs directly through Islamabad. Not because Pakistan chose this role. Because Pakistan is the only node connected to all four principals.

This is not prediction. It is structural observation. Dar in Beijing tomorrow. April 6 Trump deadline in seven days. Kharg Island fortified but un-raided. Polymarket pricing 68 percent boots by April 30. The window between mediated resolution and military escalation is exactly seven days wide, and the country standing in the doorway is the one that stood there 55 years ago when the last superpower realignment was brokered.

Whether Pakistan succeeds or fails, the attempt is historically significant. A nuclear-armed nation of 240 million people, balancing simultaneous alliances with the United States, China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, hosting the architecture that will determine whether the world’s most important energy chokepoint reopens through negotiation or force. The last time a single country occupied this structural position, the result was the Nixon-Mao handshake that defined half a century of geopolitics.

The flight is tomorrow. The deadline is April 6. And the molecules are still boiling off.

Full analysis in The Last Molecule Standing, live on Substack now. - https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

A woman in Iran is documenting the reality of this illegal war - not through Western media filters

[Maryam Nawaz Sharif @MaryamNSharif]

Ahamdolillah, the targets set for the ongoing Operation in Kacha areas of Rajanpur and RYK have been successfully achieved in line with the *Safe Punjab initiative of Government of Punjab*
Government of Punjab took it as a challenge; provided resources including thermal drone technology, weapons, APCs, Bullet proof Vehicles, infrastructural support, etc. to RYK and Rajanpur police, to ensure Position of Strength for the police. Punjab Police launched an aggressive operation incapacitating the Kacha criminals which forced them to surrender before the Police.
For the first time in the history of Kacha Operations in Punjab, 148 dacoits including 07 with Head Money of Rs 10 million, 04 with Head money of Rs 5 million & 02 with head money Rs. 2.5 million have surrendered so far and almost all major criminals infested areas of Kacha have been cleared.
Active assistance of civil and military agencies in support of Punjab Police during the Operation is highly commendable.
Support of Sindh Police and Sindh Rangers in conducting joint operation in the adjoining border Kacha areas is also appreciated.
Government of Punjab is taking steps for social rehabilitation of this area on permanent basis by mobilising resources for provision of social services like schools, hospitals, jobs, etc.

Shabash IG sb and Punjab Police 👏🏻

[Rabia Akhtar @Rabs_AA]

There has been a lot of anxiety about “who controls the nukes” in the 27th Amendment debate, almost all of it missing one core fact: Our nuclear architecture was built deliberately, layer by layer, to avoid personalisation of control. That architecture remains intact, untouched, unmoved, and deliberately insulated from daily politics. Modernising command structure is not breaking the system rather it is strengthening the one that has already worked.

Pakistan’s National Command Authority IS NOT being touched. The PM still chairs the NCA. SPD still implements. Civilian supremacy over nuclear use remains intact. The clause re-stating the PM’s authority in service appointments IS NOT a shift. It is a reaffirmation. And codifying a joint command structure does not equal shifting nuclear authority; it simply formalises what has been operational practice for years.

The “freak-out” stems from conflating military hierarchy reforms with nuclear command control. These are separate pillars by design and that design has held firm through real crises, including May 2025, WITHOUT ambiguity or parallel chains.

Yes, debate is healthy. But let us base it on text and institutional history, not anxiety. I buy the rationale that amendment modernises command structure for 21st-century threats, it DOES NOT rewrite the nuclear playbook. In nuclear matters, continuity is stability.
Pakistan’s command structure remains where it always has been: with elected civilian leadership, institutional checks, and crisis-tested protocols.

Nuclear command is the last domain where ambiguity can exist. This is institutional evolution, not disruption.

[Khurram Qureshi @qureshik74]

It’s normalcy and apathy, that there’s hardly outrage when the TTP targets & kills civilians & our soldiers in KP & Baluchistan.

But the moment Pak decides to retaliate there is anti war & Afghan sovereignty hysteria.

Ignore the noise
Kill the terrorists

#PakistanZindabad

[بٹ واۓ؟ @KashiUstaad]

انا للہ وانا الیہ راجعون

Really sorry to hear about your Mother, Sir. May Allah Pak grant her the highest status in jannat ul Firdous and give you and your family patience and fortitude to bear this irreparable loss.

Prayers & condolences

@AbsarAlamHaider

[بٹ واۓ؟ @KashiUstaad]

@stephen_john28 Masha Allah

Many congratulations Stephen Paa

[بٹ واۓ؟ @KashiUstaad]

@FaisalYousaf66 Masha Allah. Stay blessed

[بٹ واۓ؟ @KashiUstaad]

A very well thought out and logical piece on the recent hostilities/ war/ skirmish b/w Pak and India in May 2025

Must read

[Rabia Akhtar @Rabs_AA]

In my first-ever feature for EOS @dawn_com I unpack why the May 2025 🇮🇳🇵🇰 crisis wasn’t just another close call, it marked a deeper shift in South Asia’s deterrence dynamics, strategic alignments, and global entanglements.
WHAT HAS SHIFTED IN SOUTH ASIA? https://t.co/mFQj8TGVFm

[Rizwan Razi™ @realrazidada]

ایران کی جوہری ہتھیار بنانے کی صلاحیت کا خاتمہ بھی ہوگیا
کنٹرول سے باہر نکلتا لاڈلا اسرائیل بھی قابو میں آگیا
اور عربوں پر مزید دباؤ برقرار رکھنے کے لیے ایران میں ملاؤں کی حکومت بھی برقرار رہی
ٹرمپ اتنا بھولا تو نہیں جتنا دنیا سمجھ بیٹھی تھی

[بٹ واۓ؟ @KashiUstaad]

Happy Birthday Dada Ji

@realrazidada ❤️

[Abdul Qayyum Siddiqui @QayyumReports]

آج کا شگوفہ

بند دکان کے تھڑے پر بیٹھے دو بوڑھے آپس میں باتیں کرتے ہوئے ہنس ہنس کر لوٹ پوٹ ہو رہے تھے کہ

ایک متجسس راہگیر نے ان سے اتنا خوش ہونے کی وجہ پوچھ لی۔

ایک بوڑھے نے بمشکل اپنی ہنسی پر قابو پاتے ہوئے کہا:

ہمارے پاس اس ملک کے مسائل حل کرنے کیلیئے ایک شاندار منصوبہ ہے۔

اور وہ منصوبہ یہ ہے کہ ساری قوم کو جیل میں ڈال دیا جائے۔۔۔۔۔۔۔
اور ان سب کے ساتھ ایک گدھا بھی جیل میں ڈالا جائے۔

راہگیر نے حیرت سے دونوں کو دیکھا اور پوچھا:

ان سب کے ساتھ ایک گدھے کو کیوں قید کیا جائے؟

دونوں بوڑھوں نے فلک شگاف قہقہہ لگاتے ہوئے ایک دوسرے کو دیکھا،
اور ایک بوڑھے نے دوسرے سے کہا:

دیکھا رحیمے: آگیا یقین تجھے میری بات پر
میں نہیں کہتا تھا کہ گدھے کے بارےمیں پوچھیں گےمگراس قوم کے بارے میں کوئی بھی نہیں پوچھے گا۔

ابن زکی

[Hammad Hassan @HammadHassan30]

یاد نہیں پڑتا کہ پی ٹی آئی نے کھبی شکست تسلیم کر لی ہو
یعنی 2018 کا RTSالیکشن صحیح تھا لیکن 2024 میں پنجاب اور قومی اسمبلی میں ہار دھاندلی اور کے پی میں الیکشن شفاف تھا
تازہ مثال سمبڑیال الیکشن ھے
رویئے کا یہ تضاد عاصم منیر/فائز عیسی اور باجوہ/ثاقب نثار تک بھی پھیلا ہوا ھے

[Rizwan Razi™ @realrazidada]

آٹھ فروری کو فیض نیٹ ورک اپنے پورے جوبن پر تھا، انتخابات کی رات اسی سرکاری مشینری کو حالیہ ریٹایرڈ افراد کے ذریعے بھاری آوازوں میں ہدایات جاری کر کے بدترین دھاندلی کے ذریعے ہرایا گیا۔ تا ہم جو لیگی حضرات جیتے بھی وہ اپنی اصل برتری سے بھی آدھی سے جیتے۔ جعلی برتری کا تاثر قایم کرنے کے لیے میڈیایی باندروں کو چابی بھری گیی۔ فیض کا فیض کیا بند ہوا، ہر چیز اپنے اصل کی طرف لوٹنا شروع ہو گیی۔
😌😌😌

[The Thursday Times @thursday_times]

Amid Pakistan’s gravest crisis since Pulwama, Ishaq Dar stood not as a partisan, but as a statesman. Eschewing loud diplomacy and online theatrics, he kept Pakistan’s tone serious and sober—a rare restraint in an age of maximalist politics.

Our editorial: https://t.co/zPQxvEp0hR

[Farid Khan @_FaridKhan]

Sikandar Raza arrives from the airport and straight to the stadium. Unreal professionalism 🇵🇰♥️♥️ #HBLPSLX

[Zee @zilleshahbaz]

بنیان المرصوص کی شاندار کامیابی کے بعد تحریک انصاف نے خان صاحب کی رہائی کے لیئے آپریشن عمران المخدوش کا آغاز کردیا، اس کے جواب میں پولیس نے شیطان المردود آپریشن پلان کرلیا ہے۔ مسلم لیگ نون نے بھی مرکزی سطح پر آم اور امرود آپریشن کا آغاز کرکے سوال کیا ہے کہ کوئی ان کو بھی بتائے کہ ملک میں کیا چل رہا ہے

[Nadeem Farooq Paracha @NadeemfParacha]

“Donald Bhai, if nothing at all, then at least say India-Pakistan instead of Pakistan-India in your statements. Please, guru. We are bigger than they are, y’know. Please take our name first. I desperately need a win. Any kind of win.”