Talha Ibrahim

teach, research, rock climbing, spearfishing, and procrastination.

[Hina Rabbani Khar @HinaRKhar]

India- the ‘rogue state’ that’s making the region & its own citizens repeatedly pay the price for its belligerent, antagonistic, parochial mindset….. ‘Under normal circumstances a country claiming it will stop water flow that it’s bound to allow to flow due to a ‘treaty’ arrangement between two states 60 yrs back would seem delusional. But for rogue India that operates outside the realm of intl law and rules enabled by the tacit silence of many, this is a dangerous escalation towards regional instability & permanent state of war.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Imagine your girl being this frightened. Go on. Imagine it.

[Ilhan Niaz @IlhanNiaz]

Shahid Anwar turned his notes on my 2022 book Downfall: Lessons for our Final Century, into a presentation using AI. You can see his summary here & the book is free to download from CSCR:

https://t.co/KoyXIdmCW1

[Shahzad Chaudhry @shazchy09]

Love it. My fond regards to the Admiral. He couldn't be more right on it. Our peoples are already half-literate in war-related jargon. To overdose them with slang that essentially is regurgitation is both intellectually imbecile and misleading.

[Iftikhar Firdous @IftikharFirdous]

The number of targeted killings in the tribal districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan against pro-government tribals, their immediate families and law enforcement personnel is continuing unabated. These don’t make headlines or even make it to the alerts of news channels. The numbers are now in hundreds, eroding the state support, of whatever little remains in these areas.

[Rabia Akhtar @Rabs_AA]

There is something almost comical about the framing.

The title claims to explain Pakistan's "obsession" with India, while simultaneously centering an entire book on Pakistan. If Pakistan is supposedly the obsession, why does so much of Indian strategic discourse, media coverage, election rhetoric, television programming, military signaling, and now even e-books continually return to Pakistan?

One wonders whether the authors paused to consider what that says about India's own strategic fixation. When your explanation for every regional development begins and ends with Pakistan, you may not be studying an obsession. You may be revealing one.

[Shen Shiwei 沈诗伟 @shen_shiwei]

😓Why would China view #Indian democracy as an ideological threat? A system that consumes enormous resources on factional bargaining, caste politics, and coalition management—while struggling to deliver major national goals—as a model to emulate?

The biggest misconception among some Indian commentators is the belief that China sees Indian democracy as an ideological threat.

Chinese democracy has enhanced its ability to mobilize resources, execute long-term strategies, deliver infrastructure, respond to crises, and solve national-scale problems. China's rise was built on exactly these capabilities.

[Majid Nizami @majidsnizami]

"میرے کزن کے بیٹے سراج ولد حاصل سکنہ پسنی کو لاپتہ کرنے کے بعد اس کی لاش پھینک کر مجھے بطور سیاسی کارکن واضح پیغام دیا گیا۔ کزن کے بیٹے کی تدفین کے دوران دوسرے کزن کے بیٹے جلال کریم بخش کو بھی اٹھا لیا گیا۔ آخر سیکیورٹی ادارے مجھ سے کیا چاہتے ہیں؟ ظلم جبر سے مسائل حل نہیں ہوتے بلکہ نفرت میں اضافہ ہوتا ہے۔" ایم پی اے مولانا ہدایت الرحمان بلوچ، سربراہ حق دو تحریک گوادر

[Asad Rahim Khan @AsadRahim]

'Widely seen' as Shiva-Pashupati, perhaps only by the Indian right. The very name is doubtful, retrospective packaging, picked up from Hindu practices many centuries later. The seal itself was unearthed in Mohenjo-daro, today's Pakistan.

Hindutva psychosis aside, most of the Indus flows through Pakistan, the river valley civilisation was discovered here, its extraordinary precursor was found in Mehrgarh, Balochistan, and its most significant cities fall in Punjab and Sindh, as do nearly all its script seals and inscribed objects.

The reason these basic facts are drawing more and more RSS outrage is Pakistanis' increasing ownership. Pakistan's early historians did a grave disservice by neglecting the story of their own land, and grasping instead for foreign conquerors as the country's sole originary basis.

But this hacked away at one of history's core ingredients: the emotional connection between geography and identity. Of course, foreign adventurers and their armies did settle in the valley. But they did so amid a far larger native population, in the home of one of the oldest civilizations in the world.

As new generations of Pakistanis increasingly celebrate the Indus Valley they continue to live in, so the contestation and rage from Hindutva has ramped up (which is funny, given Hindutva itself is a fairly modern ethos, rooted in European fascism from the 1930s).

As for the silly jibe that a Muslim country cannot own a pre-Islamic past, modern Egyptians aren't pharoahs either, yet they remain the rightful heirs to their soil and story. Pakistan the nation-state is but the latest chapter in a long story.

It cannot be ousted from the Indus Valley Civilisation, any more than India can from the Ganges. Both countries' inheritance is a gift to be understood, rather than unnecessarily glorified or, in the Indian right's case regarding Pakistan, erased.

[Senator Danesh Kumar Palyani @palyani]

A brave Hindu soldier Sachin Kumar of the Pakistan Army, who was critically injured in the Quetta train suicide attack, embraced martyrdom today after battling his wounds.

Terrorism has no religion or humanity. Such cowardly attacks can never weaken Pakistan’s unity and faith.

Salute to our brave martyr and his sacrifice for Pakistan. 🇵🇰

[Muhammad Taimur Fahad Khan @Muh_Taimur_Khan]

Delighted to share that my chapter, “Int'l Institutions, Migration Governance, & Social Justice: Rethinking Equity & Inclusion in Pakistan’s Policy Framework,” has been published in @SpringerNature vol. South Asia’s Institutional Dilemmas: Equity and Social Justice in Practice.

[Ilhan Niaz @IlhanNiaz]

Prime Minister, now that you are a professor, did you know that thousands of your colleagues on the tenure track system in Pakistan have not had a pay raise since 2021, while their tax burden has increased 81% & the real value of their salaries has fallen by at least one-third?

Please help them out of the jam they are in & take notice of the inordinate delay in resolving this issue. 😊

[Reuters @Reuters]

In Pakistan's mostly rural Chakwal district, more than 100 Shi'ite Muslims say they were deported from UAE without their luggage or access to the savings they spent years building https://t.co/t184eGHaCy

[Reza Amiri Moghadam @IranAmbPak]

A few minutes ago, the Honorable Pakistani Minister of Interior, my dear brother H.E. Mohsin Naqvi, congratulated me on the achievements of the negotiations with the officials of my country after returning from Tehran.
With conservative optimism, we can hope that, if the other side is adequately committed, a positive stride is taking shape which is the result of the positions of the Islamic Republic of Iran based on dignity, the steadfastness of the courageous armed forces and the resistance of the brave Iranian nation, as well as the initiative and dedicated endeavours of the Pakistani mediator.
I hope that the sincere efforts of the esteemed Pakistani government and army, especially H.E. Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Seyed Asim Munir NI(M), HJ, COAS & CDF, for the initiative of mediation, and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H.E. Muhammad Ishaq Dar and Interior Minister H.E. Mohsin Naqvi, for their sincere diplomatic efforts, will lead to lasting peace in the region.

On my behalf, i extend my sincere and wholehearted gratitude to all of them for their sincere endeavours.

[Global Times @globaltimesnews]

Two Pakistani astronauts have entered the Astronaut Center of China and are participating in training, including core training programs, Chinese-language training for daily operations, and in-orbit coordination, a spokesperson from the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced on Saturday, Xinhua News Agency reported.
https://t.co/DhaMOrX4d3

[Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor]

🚨🚨
نمل یونیورسٹی کے پروفیسر @TahirNaeemMalik نے بی بی سی اردو سے گفتگو کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ ’بدقسمتی سے جہالت ہمارے معاشرے میں سرایت کر چکی ہے جس کی وجہ سے علمی بحث و مباحثہ کی گنجائش سکڑ رہی ہے۔‘
ان کا کہنا تھا کہ ’میں خود مشرقِ وسطیٰ کا موضوغ پڑھاتا ہوں۔ اب یہ کیسے ممکن ہے کہ آپ اسرائیل کو حذف کر کے مشرقِ وسطی پڑھائیں؟
https://t.co/M6HqETUXuj

[Ilhan Niaz @IlhanNiaz]

The Pakistan edition of New World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in the Americas will be out soon: 😊

[Ilhan Niaz @IlhanNiaz]

The international paperback edition of my latest book, New World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in the Americas, is set to ship from May 21, 2026. You can read the first 40 pages from, the link below. Do recommend it to libraries and universities in your network.

The book is available in India from Manohar (New Delhi) and will shortly be published in Pakistan by the Oxford University Press.

https://t.co/qLv6ynt67i

[Sahar Khan @khansahar1]

The fact that so many Indian analysts are jumping on this “scoop” as a sign of Pakistan’s “double game” actually highlights two things: 1) Indian analysts care a lot more about Pakistan than they care to admit, and 2) they remain annoyed that Pakistan is a mediator even though it’s clear that India would never be a mediator due to its own interests.

[Talha Ibrahim @TalhaIbr]

@IlhanNiaz Congratulations sir. It is a great honour.