Seeing this 52-minute documentary leaves little doubt that @DeutscheWelle has done such a crude, intellectually dishonest, hatchet job of raising alarm about Pakistan’s nuclear program by questioning its legitimacy & safety, recycling old propaganda to link it to religious extremism! For example, the documentary starts off with the laughable proposition that Pakistan ‘illegally developed’ The Bomb, as if there’s a legal path to acquiring nuclear weapons, which Germany’s friends like India & Israel may have pursued! Then this documentary goes on to say the Pakistan Government ‘officially revealed’ the Bomb via the nuclear tests in 1998, WITHOUT MENTIONING that Pakistan’s tests were in response to the nuclear tests of India, also the architect of nuclearisation of South Asia, a fact that Deutsche Welle conveniently overlooks in its quest to demonise Pakistan! Given these low standards of professionalism of Germany’s ‘state-funded international broadcasting network’, it is perhaps no accident that Germany’s own international standing has fallen, since Germany suffered a humiliating defeat in elections to the UN Security Council in June 2026, losing to Austria & Portugal. Ironically, this defeat at the UN coincided with the first anniversary of German Chancellor Merzl’s shocking acclaim of Israeli aggression against Iran in June 2025, when he said ‘Israel is doing our dirty work’ & ‘rules of international law do not apply to Iran’!
If you wanted attention, DW, all you had to do was ask!
In this pathetic documentary, the conclusion came first. Pakistan was then edited to fit it. The method is embarrassingly transparent:
1. Show a radical cleric.
2. Cut to a nuclear facility.
3. Add ominous music.
4. Mention instability.
5. Let insinuation replace evidence.
Pakistan is described as having “illegally developed” nuclear weapons. Illegally under which law? Pakistan was never a party to the NPT and therefore did not violate an NPT obligation by acquiring nuclear weapons. DW may disapprove of the program, but moral disapproval is not a legal argument, Folks.
Notice the asymmetry in language! India developed nuclear weapons. Pakistan “deceived the world.” India’s programme is treated as a strategic fact. Pakistan’s is narrated as criminal cunning. Mashallah!
The documentary briefly mentions 1971, India’s conventional advantage and Pakistan’s loss of faith in external guarantees but refuses to let any of that seriously explain Pakistan’s nuclear choices. Context is included only so it can be ignored.
Then comes the old “Islamists might seize the bomb” trope. No evidence of penetration of nuclear command structures is presented. No demonstrated breach is identified. No serious institutional assessment is offered.
Just militants somewhere in Pakistan and therefore loose nukes.
Even DW’s own interviewees acknowledge centralized command and control, multiple security layers and specialized forces protecting nuclear assets. But every reassuring fact is treated as an inconvenient interruption before the awful soundtrack returns to impending catastrophe.
DW uses AQ Khan's case as a permanent substitute for analysing Pakistan’s present nuclear-security architecture. History becomes guilt without expiry, who knew!
But that's not all! of course, there comes Kashmir, which is handled with similar intellectual laziness. Instead of seriously examining disputed sovereignty, war, repression, failed diplomacy and competing legal claims, Pakistan’s position is reduced to a psychological obsession arising from its Muslim identity.
A retired brigadier making expansive comments about nuclear use is presented as a window into Pakistan’s doctrine.
He is not the National Command Authority.
He is not the Strategic Plans Division.
He is not an official doctrinal document.
But guess what! nuance would spoil the drama.
The documentary also bundles together military businesses, hospitals, gated housing, blasphemy laws, Imran Khan, Afghan refugees, illegal weapons markets and attacks on Christians.
These are serious issues. BUT they are not evidence that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is insecure.
Here's the central fraud: collapsing four separate questions into one.
-Pakistan’s democratic governance.
-Its civil-military imbalance.
-Its internal security challenges.
-Its nuclear command and control.
DW treats them as interchangeable because differentiation would require actual analysis.
The final product is the standard Western Pakistan story:
-Too poor to govern itself.
-Too religious to be trusted.
-Too militarized to be democratic.
-Too unstable to possess nuclear weapons.
Pakistan has serious problems. None of them should be denied or romanticized. But a credible documentary would distinguish between nuclear safety, nuclear security, political stability and democratic governance. It would examine institutions, procedures, doctrine and evidence. It would compare Pakistan with other nuclear powers. It would ask whether the risks it highlights are demonstrated, plausible or merely imagined.
Strip away the ominous soundtrack and all that remains is a tired collection of stereotypes. The only real danger in this documentary is losing sixty minutes you will never get back.
"Mr. Ghalibaf was nearly killed in both the 12-day war in June 2025 and again in this year’s conflict, when Israel targeted a secret meeting of senior government officials in a bunker under a mountain, according to three senior Iranian officials and public comments by officials. In both incidents, Mr. Ghalibaf was rescued from under the rubble, the officials said." https://t.co/qP2aEkEqNt
I quote-tweeted this yesterday but it is still hard to put in words what this post from @NYCMayor means to so many millions of Muslims, especially Shias, not just across the US but across the world. If only more non-Muslims knew less about ISIS & more about Imam Hussain. #ashura
The Middle East is being pulled deeper into crisis & the consequences reach far beyond the region.
This week has brought wider attacks and further deterioration where the ceasefire is more like a lesser-fire.
We should not minimize the risks of lesser fire becoming full fire.
All parties must work towards a diplomatic settlement.
No more attacks. No more excuses.
Trump made this statement after the departure of Iranian delegation from Islamabad. Actually Iranians were not interested in meeting with Americans under the pressure of a Naval blockade.
اگر الزام یہ ہے کہ یہ واقعہ پاکستانی سرزمین سے نام نہاد دہشت گردوں نے کیا تو یہ مدنظر رکھا جائے کہ پہلگام کسی بھی پاکستانی قصبے سے 200 کلومیٹر سے زیادہ دور ہے، ڈی جی آئی ایس پی آر
ایف آئی آر کے مطابق 10 منٹ میں پولیس کا پہنچنا اور واپس آ کر رپورٹ درج کرنا سوالیہ نشان ہے، جس سے تیاری کا شبہ پیدا ہوتا ہے، ڈی جی آئی ایس پی آر
بھارتی انٹیلی جنس کو واقعے کی پیشگی اطلاع نہیں تھی، لیکن واقعے کے فوراً بعد 10 منٹ میں یہ دعویٰ سامنے آ گیا کہ حملہ آور سرحد پار سے آئے تھے ، ڈی جی آئی ایس پی آر
بھارتی ایجنسیوں سے منسلک ہینڈلز نے محض 5 منٹ میں ملبہ پاکستان پر ڈال دیا ،ڈی جی آئی ایس پی آر
ڈی جی آئی ایس پی آر نے پریس کانفرنس میں ٹھوس ثبوتوں کیساتھ حقائق سامنے رکھے اور بھارتی فالس فلیگ کے ڈرامے کو بے نقاب کیا
Pay attention to the sequence, not the noise. FM Munir flew to Tehran, put new proposals on the table. Iran says they are under review. The strait was declared open, stocks surged, then Trump said the blockade stays, Iran reimposed restrictions. Now Trump says Iran cannot squeeze the US again by closing the strait and that talks are still ongoing, he would know by end of the day. Meanwhile Iran is reviewing Munir's proposals. It looks chaotic. It is not. The mediation through Pakistan is seamless. Washington cannot look soft on Iran. Tehran cannot look like it is bending. But behind the posturing, proposals are moving and Pakistan is the relay holding it together.