The Pakistan Playbook

Strategic reporting on Pakistan and the wider region. For policymakers, military planners, foreign ministries, and serious readers.

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Trump’s #AbrahamAccords 2.0 is getting iced.

#SaudiArabia: Hard refusal. No deal without real #Palestinianstatehood path.
#Pakistan: Immediate rejection. “Not acceptable.”
#Qatar: Radio silent (smart they mediate with Iran).
#Turkey: Dead in the water. Erdogan’s ties with Israel are trashed post #GazaGenocide.
#Egypt & #Jordan: Already have peace treaties (’79 & ’94), but not joining the Accords club.
#Iran: #Trump calls it “an honor” while they’re in open war mode with Israel/US.

Reality check: the region isn’t lining up. #NuclearPakistan said no, Saudis won’t budge.

The map still burns. The culprits are known to all.

#usa_iran_war #USIrandeal #noAbrahamAccords #GlobalPivotPakistan

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The Distribution Collapse report we published was the diagnosis. @faizansiddiqi has done the empirical work to confirm it. Pakistani media still has the audience. It has run out of time to choose what to do with it. The window is still open. It will not stay.

[Faizan Siddiqi @faizansiddiqi]

Pakistan’s biggest news brands have 28.5M combined followers on X.

Average engagement rate: 0.017%

That’s not influence. That’s a Contact List.

Some outlets with 5M+ followers are barely hitting 1–3K views per post.

Here is my detailed take on The Slow Collapse of Legacy Media In Pakistan.

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Broadcasting into the void.

Pakistan’s major English news institutions dominate on open web, but on X - where ministers, military leadership, diplomats, judges and senior decision-makers now consume news and shape opinions - their reach has largely decoupled from follower counts.

Legacy accounts with hundreds of thousands to millions of followers often see median posts in the low hundreds to low thousands of views.

We just published our new research report on this distribution collapse.

Not failure, this is a platform shift. The web still works powerfully. X requires a different format and discipline.

Full report (free): https://t.co/ni8DRK2WnH

Journalists, editors & strategic comms teams — how are you adapting your X strategy to actually reach the decision-making audience?

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"He praised NATO in front of its loudest critic. He championed climate action in front of a climate denier. He called for interfaith dialogue during an administration that has banned citizens from Muslim-majority countries. He praised checks and balances on executive power to a room full of lawmakers who have been unable to exercise them. He referenced the Middle East crisis that is currently straining the alliance he was there to celebrate. He defended the Royal Navy after Trump publicly insulted it. And he did all of this while receiving standing ovations, bipartisan laughter, and a dinner invitation." - Dan Qayyum writes on X

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"Dad, we have been captured by pirates. This is my last voice message." Amin Bin Shams recorded this for his father. He is their only child. He went to sea to earn a living. He has not been heard from since Friday. There are eleven Pakistani men on that ship. Read this. Share this. Do not let this disappear from the timeline.

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[Sriyansh Mohanty @Aanshtweets]

The view from New Delhi is unlikely to change anytime soon. But the view of Islamabad and how it has modified its foreign policy statecraft is still worth watching, not out of admiration, but out of the cold recognition that Indian foreign policy's greatest strength, i.e. stability, predictability, alignment, may also be its greatest constraint. And what our neighbor just pulled off is something we, by our own design, may never be able to attempt.

History gives an important lesson. Middle powers have often outmaneuvered strong ones precisely because they have fewer constraints, fewer reputational concerns, and a higher tolerance for risk.

🇮🇳 does not need to admire 🇵🇰. It does not need to change its fundamental view of its neighbor. But it does need to develop the intellectual discipline to study Pakistan's strategic behavior without the filter of contempt.

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