🚨BREAKING: For the first time, the original Pakistani cypher — cable I-0678, the document that triggered the removal of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan — is being released in full by Drop Site.
Trump:
I would go to Pakistan, yeah. Pakistan has been great, they've been so good.
Islamabad—I’ll be—I might go, yeah, I might go. If the deal is signed in Islamabad, I might go.
Imran Khan should not be in power because he is an idiot. But Trump and Modi deserve to lead their countries because they're geniuses? No, it's the low self-esteem of Pakistanis that has convinced them that we do not deserve democracy but those hillbillies and RSS types do
Most Pakistani local journalists are not capable of handling international affairs. This is due to poor analytical capacity and no formal training. Their main topic was how PTI is defeated, how Imran Khan is irrelevant, what Imran Khan is thinking in Adiala, and how foreign policy is better now, etc. Imagine this is their mental level in such intense times and important peace negotiations. The only good news is they are still better than Indian media
Breaking News: The U.S. and Iran have failed to reach an agreement to end the war, Vice President JD Vance said after marathon peace talks. https://t.co/ra8FGwTItN
You can take a principled position in support of the ceasefire, and you can also take an equally principled position against the actors involved, given their backgrounds, intentions, and history.
Just because the illegitimate Pakistani military regime happens to be actively involved in the peace process, neither washes away its tyrannical and criminal rule at home, nor gives it sudden legitimacy or mandate to rule.
Supporting peace process doesn't mean you have to support, cheer or whitewash the regime's brutal and tyrannical record at home.
At the end of the day, there’s no harm admitting that Imran Khan’s simplistic and pacifist foreign policy style wasn’t fit enough to survive in the post-October 7th world.
I’m sure even he would have been made to realise this if he was outside of prison, with his advisors.
Three diplomatic officials tell @ElizLanders and I that Pakistan believes it has a responsibility and opportunity to help the US and Iran negotiate, given Pakistan's relationships with @POTUS, Iran, and the Gulf. One diplomatic official describes Pakistan as a likely venue.
#BREAKING US delegation coming to Pakistan 'in a day or 2’ for possible talks but Iran ‘still not ready' due to mistrust, Pakistani Foreign Ministry sources tell Anadolu