وزیرِ اعلیٰ سہیل آفریدی صوبے میں تباہی بربادی پھیلا چکے، سیاسی طور پر مکمل ناکام ہو چکے ہیں۔ خیبر پختونخوا دہشتگردی کی زد میں خواتین، بچوں، بزرگوں کو شہید کیا جا رہا ہے، اِن کو اپنی سیاست پیاری ہے، مگر ہمیں پاکستان پیارا ہے، صوبے میں غیر رجسٹرڈ گاڑیاں چل رہی ہیں، گولڈ، معدنیات، ٹمبر اور ٹوبیکو کا گٹھ جوڑ ہے جس سے دہشتگردی کی سہولت کاری ہو رہی ہے۔ پی ٹی آئی کو حساب دینا ہوگا کہ این ایف سی کے تحت وفاق سے ملنے والا انسداد دہشتگردی کا فنڈ دھرنوں پر لگایا ہے یا سیاست پر۔ 🇵🇰
Islamabad :18 June 2026.
Prime Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif signed the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (Islamabad MoU)، as mediator.
The Islamabad MOU has been signed by President of USA Donald J. Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Mr President, on behalf of the people of Pakistan, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, and on my behalf, I express my deep and profound appreciation for your kind and gracious words.
@realDonaldTrump
Islamabad: heartbeat of global peace
Do we Pakistanis realise what we have given to the world? Do we Pakistanis fully grasp what just happened? What happened happens once – maybe once – in the life of a nation’s existence. On April 8, Pakistan stood between the world and catastrophe. Millions of lives that would have been extinguished, an oil market that would have collapsed into chaos, a global economy that was ninety minutes from a shock it would have spent decades recovering from.
Million dead – prevented. Global oil chaos – prevented. Global economic shock – prevented. And Pakistan’s fingerprints are everywhere on this peace. This is a moment to understand, clearly and without qualification, what Pakistan just gave the world. And then to own it.
On April 7, at 6:30pm Washington time – 4:23am in Islamabad – US President Donald Trump talked to COAS Field Marshal Asim Munir to end a war. The call reportedly lasted 17 minutes.
In those 17 minutes, US offensive military operations in Iran were suspended. Iranian defensive operations ceased. Israeli strikes paused. Oil prices fell 15 per cent in after-hours trading, the steepest single-day drop in six years. Dow futures surged over 1,000 points. Stock markets from Seoul to Frankfurt to London opened sharply higher. The word ‘ceasefire’ replaced the word ‘civilisation’ in the same sentence that had, hours earlier, threatened annihilation. Millions of lives that had been ninety minutes from catastrophe were no longer in the calculus of destruction.
Seventeen minutes. One call. One army chief. One country that had spent months quietly building the only architecture that could make those seventeen minutes possible.
Why Pakistan? Why not the UN? Why not the EU? Why not Saudi Arabia, Turkiye or Qatar? The UN was structurally paralysed from the start. The EU had no credible access to either Washington or Tehran at the level this crisis required. Saudi Arabia had the deepest structural conflict of interest of any candidate. Turkey’s Nato membership was a fatal credibility problem with Iran. Qatar had tried and quietly stepped aside.
So why Pakistan? First, Field Marshal Munir’s personal relationship with Trump that no other Muslim-world leader could match. Second, Pakistan’s access to Iran. Third, China’s explicit endorsement.
The answer to ‘why Pakistan’ is ultimately this: every other candidate was either too aligned, too compromised, too small, too paralysed, or too reluctant. Pakistan was the only country on earth that had Trump’s personal trust, Iran’s historical confidence, China’s endorsement, a shared border with Iran, and the institutional will to act before being asked. That combination existed nowhere else.
On the night of April 7, Pakistan redefined itself. Not through a speech. Not through a declaration. Through a phone call at 4:23 in the morning that stopped a war. The country that the world had long examined through the narrow lens of its difficulties stepped forward, in the darkest hour of a global crisis, and turned the lights back on.
Islamabad is no longer merely a capital. It is, for this moment in history, the heartbeat of global peace. That is what Pakistan gave the world. Now Pakistan must understand what it gave – and rise to meet it.
Big Development:
If PM Shahbaz Sharif is travelling to KSA on emergency basis that likely means USA and Iran are agreed that Pakistan and KSA will be doing joint patrolling of the Strait of Hormuz: my sources in Washington DC confirm.
Breaking: 🔥🔥
Shashi Tharoor rips apart Modi Government
"If you saw Donald Trump’s latest tweet crediting Pakistan with stepping in to end the Iranian war, you know why I am standing here in shock. It feels like a massive strategic failure by the Indian government."
Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future. To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks. Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture. We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region.
@realDonaldTrump@JDVance@SecRubio@SteveWitkoff@SEPeaceMissions@drpezeshkian@mb_ghalibaf@araghchi
Attended the 3rd T20 at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore, electrifying atmosphere and great crowd.
Pakistan won the series 3-0. Well done boys 🇵🇰
Congratulations to @MohsinnaqviC42@TheRealPCB
🇵🇰 PAKISTAN IS BUILDING AN ISLAND - AND IT'S BECAUSE OF TRUMP
Pakistan just greenlit a project that sounds like sci-fi on a budget: an artificial island 300km off the Sindh coast, built not for beaches but for drill rigs.
PPL is carving this thing out of the Arabian Sea - a 6-foot-high platform designed so tides don’t shut down operations.
Abu Dhabi’s been doing island-drilling for years. Pakistan wants in.
Why the sudden energy rush?
One word: Trump.
His July claim about Pakistan’s “massive oil reserves” - half hype, half geopolitical bait - sent U.S. firms sniffing around.
Islamabad took the hint and started handing out offshore licenses like a new season just dropped.
This island is Phase One.
25 planned wells. Construction done by February. Drilling immediately after.
It’s ambitious. It’s risky. And it’s Pakistan saying:
if the world thinks we’re sitting on a jackpot, we’re going to dig until we know for sure.
The Arabian Sea just got a new contestant.
Source: Bloomberg
#WATCH | US President Donald Trump says, "...The Prime Minister of Pakistan got up the other day, said so beautifully, he says, you saved millions of lives. He told that to a group of people right in this office. He said the President saved millions of lives. What he's referring to is the fact that that would have been with India a nuclear war. That was getting very close...Seven aircraft were shot down. In fact, we have the new ambassador to India right here. They're well represented. You (US Ambassador-designate to India, Sergio Gor) better represent us, not them...But Sergio is going to do a great job. He's going to do a great job..."
(Video source: The White House/YouTube)