Key outcomes of the first round in the recent India-Pakistan conflict -
For India:
1.India has demonstrated that it is unable to gain conventional dominance over an adversary smaller than its (province) of Uttar Pradesh. No one can take Indian claims of parity with China seriously after this crisis.
2.India has lowered the threshold for direct military attacks on civilians and military infrastructure.
3.India has damaged the creditability of the advanced platforms it procured from the West and Russia, such as the Rafale and the S400.
4.India has created the specter of prolonged and violent instability over its own territory.
5.India has diminished diplomatic capital accumulated over generations and undermined its own Kashmir policy and approach to dealing with Pakistan.
6.India has compelled the United States to openly adopt a forward diplomatic posture about crisis management and mediation between India and Pakistan.
7.India’s government is now facing criticism and recriminations at home, turning on its own officials, and trying to recover lost political ground as Modi’s strongman image stands tarnished. The violence, boorishness, and reliance on complete fabrications about Indian military operations, evidenced in the Indian discourse, have undermined the credibility of India’s narrative and media.
For Pakistan:
1.Pakistan has demonstrated that India does not enjoy any meaningful conventional advantage even in a major exchange.
2.Pakistan’s use of Chinese-made systems proved militarily and fiscally effective and has led to global focus on the combination of Pakistani tactics and Chinese weapons that led to an effective check on India.
3.Pakistan unexpectedly finds itself warming up to the Trump administration and welcoming the internationalization of the Kashmir dispute as well as mediation efforts.
4.Pakistan finds that India has ended up re-hyphenating itself with Pakistan. The world respects military prowess and Pakistan has badly shown-up an adversary that has 7-8 times its military budget and has had the run of Western and Russian armories for decades.
5.Pakistan has demonstrated tremendous restraint in the face of use by India of the Brahmos – a missile that can carry both nuclear and conventional payloads.
6.Pakistan has shown it can get the upper-hand in the non-kinetic sphere dealing unacceptable damage to the Indian economy and civil life.
7.And Pakistan has demonstrated that serious internal political differences notwithstanding, any external threat is met with a surge of Pakistani nationalism, solidarity, and irrepressible good humor even under direct fire.
@soldierspeaks Why are you always speculating, like why always venom, this is a hard time, we need to show strength... Aaps ki larai baad mai b ki jaa skti hai
@FrontalForce The only thing that Pakistan fears is your mallu auntis and pajeets doing jungle pani, if you want to win, yahan unko bomb mai dal k baijh bsdk
List of Politicians from different political parties, who accepted defeat and PTI's electoral Victory gracefully on 8 Feb
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@ICT_Police جس پر ظلم ہوا وہ بھی غریب ، جس کو نکالا گیا وہ بھی غریب۔۔۔ایک غریب اہلکار کو معطل کرنے سے اس استحصالی نظام کو کوئی فرق نہیں پڑتا۔۔۔ اس رویہ کی انسداد کے لئے اسکی محرکات کا جاننا لازمی ہے۔۔۔
1,460 families in Jacobabad and Qambar Shahdadkot Districts received non-food items as contribution to rebuild their lives with funding support from LDSC. Thanks to Mercy Corps Pakistan field teams.
@mercycorps
Amazing job @Jawariaabbasi ... You are doing an amazing job, keep up your contribution for the great work that you guys are doing....
May Allah be with you
The cause of EPC is greater than any political agenda.
Acc to @UNICEF Currently, Pakistan has the world's second-highest number of out-of-school children.
Let this be a movement & enroll every child .
@PIDEpk@EduMinistryPK@MariamChughtai@AssemblyAjk
@paulocoelho You don't claim to read someone with fondness and then pronounce their name wrong. But still she can press her clothes with a frying pan so i guess this is a negligible mistake
1. My dear friend @murtazahsyed has written awesome threads on economic policies lately, giving us free tutorials. He was a great Deputy & Acting Governor of SBP. I wish him well as he moves on. Today I will run a fool’s errand and partially disagree with one of his threads.
Let the cities breathe by:
1. Making your parks, clubs and institutions more accessible to general public
2. Shifting garrisons outside the main city centers
3. Saving taxpayer money through reduced protocols of all
4. Investing in a greener future and not concrete societies.
They are after golf courses. These are not stealing dollars. Get your revenue & taxes but don’t eliminate these. Let the cities breathe. If you do, these will be converted into concrete jungles. Typical of them; ask them to mend their ways & they distract you so craftily
From 13-18 our exports declined by 38pc from 13.5% to 8.5% of GDP & we ran the second-largest current account deficit. The issue was a currency pegged to a dollar that highly subsidised imports & made them surge even as our exports were getting priced out. https://t.co/BEPUpDswE2
The best part about Qatar hosting the FIFA world cup is how the western world is having a complete meltdown realising there exists a world \and culture outside of their bubbles, and exposing their hypocrisy with the sudden concern about human rights violations in the country.
Pakistan works superbly for members of social and golf clubs. But it doesn’t work if you’re a hungry child, landless hari, a madressah student, a daily-wager father or an ayah raising other people’s children. Pakistan doesn’t work well for most of our middle-class families.
‘These 30,000 kids from A-levels will dominate our top universities, many will study abroad & go on to become leaders. That’s less than 1pc of all 18-year-olds. These are the only Pakistanis for whom 🇵🇰 works. But it gets worse.’
Great op-Ed:
https://t.co/psbmCOkDbx