That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.
What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.
This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.
And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......
A Moroccan sultan recognized American independence on December 20, 1777, about six weeks before France did, and a day after Washington's starving army limped into Valley Forge.
His name was Mohammed III, and he had never set foot in America. He picked up news of the war mostly from European newspapers and the local French diplomat. He was trying to build Morocco's economy on sea trade, so he sent word to the traders and officials in his ports that ships flying the new American flag were welcome on the same terms as everyone else. That order made Morocco the first country on the planet to treat the United States as an independent country. France did not form its alliance with the Americans until February 1778.
America then sat on it for years. The news did not even reach Benjamin Franklin in Paris until the spring of 1778. The sultan offered to sign a full treaty, and Franklin let the letters sit. Mohammed III eventually asked why the Americans had never even thanked him for being the first ruler across the ocean to recognize them. Congress was broke and busy with the war, and it kept stalling.
In October 1784 the sultan decided to force the matter. Moroccan ships seized an American trading ship called the Betsey near Tangier and held its eleven-man crew. He did not touch the cargo and did not harm the sailors. He just said the ship and crew would stay in Tangier until the United States sent someone to sign a treaty.
It worked. Thomas Jefferson drafted the terms, Thomas Barclay sailed to Morocco to negotiate them, and the sultan approved the Treaty of Peace and Friendship in 1786. Morocco asked for no tribute, the yearly payment most rulers on that coast demanded to leave ships alone. John Adams and Jefferson signed it, and Congress ratified it in 1787, two months before the Constitution was signed.
That treaty is still in force today, the oldest agreement the United States has kept unbroken with any country. In 1821 a later sultan gave the United States a building in Tangier for its diplomats, and it is still the only American National Historic Landmark on foreign soil. George Washington eventually wrote to the sultan to apologize for how long the whole thing had taken.
The oldest friendship the United States has ever had began with a king it kept ignoring, and a ship he had to seize to get an answer.
وزیراعلیٰ مریم نواز کے بیوٹیفکیشن آف سٹی ویژن کے تحت بہاولپور میں تاریخی فرید گیٹ کی اپ گریڈیشن، قدیمی عمارتوں کی خوبصورت تزئین و آرائش اور شاہی بازار کو جدید فوڈ اسٹریٹ میں تبدیل کرنے کا منصوبہ شہر کے تاریخی تشخص کو محفوظ رکھتے ہوئے سیاحت، کاروبار اور شہری سرگرمیوں کو نئی جہت دے رہا ہے۔
ہائے اس دیش کو مافیا لے بیٹھے
خبر یہ ہے کہ
او ایم سیز یعنی آئل مارکیٹنگ کمپنیز کے دباؤ کی وجہ سے حکومت نے اس ہفتے تیل کی قیمتوں میں کمی نہیں کی
اور موجودہ قیمت قیمتیں برقرار رکھنے کا فیصلہ
کاش عوام بھی کوئی مافیا ہوتے ۔
دل کے کسی کونے میں ایک ادھوری کہانی سانس لیتی رہتی ہے سب سے بڑا المیہ یہ نہیں کہ محبت مکمل نہ ہو سکی بلکہ یہ ہے کہ ایک مخلص انسان آپ کے سامنے موجود ہو اور آپ کا دل پھر بھی کسی غیر موجود شخص کی یاد میں الجھا رہے مگر دل اُس لمحے اس آگے نہیں لے جا پاتا
شادی کے بعد بھی دل کسی اور کی یاد میں قید رہے... اور شریک حیات کے ساتھ بیٹھ کر بھی آنکھیں کسی اور کو ڈھونڈتی رہیں. یہی انسان کی سب سے بڑی غلطی اور بد قسمتی ہے کیونکہ نکاح صرف دو لوگوں کا ساتھ نہیں ہوتا، یہ محبت، توجہ، احساس اور وفاداری کا عہد بھی ہوتا ہے مگر دل کسی یاد میں کھویا