Naseem K Achakzai Updates

Naseem Khan Achakzai is Executive Director Center for Regional Strategy & Global Affairs. Former Advisor Govt of Balochistan & Senate of Pakistan. @achakzaiNKA

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Egypt didn’t lose a negotiation over the Nile.

It lost the window where the negotiation still mattered.

The dam is built. The reservoir is full. The treaty never came.

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There is another way to look at this. If the objective was to strengthen Palestine, the strategy deserves an honest assessment. Years of investing in armed proxies neither brought peace nor protected Gaza. Instead, over 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, Israeli military operations have intensified, and settlement expansion has accelerated. Sometimes the difference between intentions and outcomes is impossible to ignore.

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Pakistan has real reforms to deliver, and no amount of EU inconsistency erases that obligation.

But if Brussels wants its human rights conditions to carry moral weight, it has to apply them evenly — not just to the partners least able to say no.
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There’s a mineral inside your phone, every fighter jet’s night-vision system, every AI data center on earth.

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#ClarityOverNoise

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Not just what’s happening. Why it matters. Coming up next on Verdict60.

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This isn’t a disarmament plan being tested. It’s a disarmament plan being staged.

Two of the three “pilot villages” never required an Israeli withdrawal in the first place. The one that does — is already stalled.
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The competing reactions to the US-Saudi strike in Iraq reflect a broader regional reality. states rarely view the same armed actors through the same lens. One side’s strategic partner is another’s security threat. Such is the enduring logic of proxy competition in the Middle East.

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Iran may be approaching the point where tactical escalation becomes strategic overreach. Continued attacks affecting Gulf states risk hardening regional opposition while putting Beijing and Moscow in an increasingly uncomfortable position, given their significant economic and strategic interests with Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf.

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A data center became a military target for the first time in history.
Pakistan has roughly 30 data centers total. Most of the country’s data still lives abroad — outside its own laws, outside its own protection.

That’s finally changing.

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Pakistan has one of the youngest populations on Earth.
That’s supposed to be an economic engine. Instead, unemployment is rising and education spending is falling.

A demographic dividend isn’t automatic. It’s a window and it’s closing.

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#Verdict60 #Pakistan #Demographics

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Before we work on Artificial intelligence... Why don't we do something about Natural Stupidity?

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“We have every right to deal with America, do business with China. Every country has different diplomatic ties. This is a once-in-a-lifetime moment in 78 years for this country.”

@achakzaiNKA on Pakistan’s sovereign right to engage every major power simultaneously.

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Remarkable how some proposals still sound like they were drafted in the East India Company’s boardroom.

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Repair everything except the bureaucracy and you have repaired nothing.
Read my full article on @dailytimespak
https://t.co/FfXwrUdP37

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یہ مذہب کی جنگ نہیں — یہ مذہب کے نام پر دھوکہ ہے۔ اور دھوکے کو گولی نہیں، سچ مارتا ہے۔
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Naseem Achakzai: Pakistan faces four fronts - water in the East, terrorism in the West, peace efforts in the Middle East, and internal negativity that refuses to see anything positive.

I stopped watching Pakistani news on TV entirely. Fixed my own algorithm. Why hasn’t yours?

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The TTP calls it a holy war.

A real holy war doesn’t partner with a separatist non religious militia. A proxy operation does — because the ideology was never the point.

Destabilization was.

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“You spend the youth festival budget on a singer for a day. My argument: take 500 students from every district in Balochistan, teach them Chinese, give them technical skills. That’s an investment. A festival is a party.”

@achakzaiNKA on LUBP Ep 8.

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