5 August is observed as Youm-e-Istehsal (Black Day). Pakistan reiterates that India's 2019 unilateral actions in IIOJ&K contravene UNSCRs & undermine the internationally recognized disputed status of the territory. We stand in solidarity with Kashmiri people & support their rights.
If you wanted attention, DW, all you had to do was ask!
In this pathetic documentary, the conclusion came first. Pakistan was then edited to fit it. The method is embarrassingly transparent:
1. Show a radical cleric.
2. Cut to a nuclear facility.
3. Add ominous music.
4. Mention instability.
5. Let insinuation replace evidence.
Pakistan is described as having “illegally developed” nuclear weapons. Illegally under which law? Pakistan was never a party to the NPT and therefore did not violate an NPT obligation by acquiring nuclear weapons. DW may disapprove of the program, but moral disapproval is not a legal argument, Folks.
Notice the asymmetry in language! India developed nuclear weapons. Pakistan “deceived the world.” India’s programme is treated as a strategic fact. Pakistan’s is narrated as criminal cunning. Mashallah!
The documentary briefly mentions 1971, India’s conventional advantage and Pakistan’s loss of faith in external guarantees but refuses to let any of that seriously explain Pakistan’s nuclear choices. Context is included only so it can be ignored.
Then comes the old “Islamists might seize the bomb” trope. No evidence of penetration of nuclear command structures is presented. No demonstrated breach is identified. No serious institutional assessment is offered.
Just militants somewhere in Pakistan and therefore loose nukes.
Even DW’s own interviewees acknowledge centralized command and control, multiple security layers and specialized forces protecting nuclear assets. But every reassuring fact is treated as an inconvenient interruption before the awful soundtrack returns to impending catastrophe.
DW uses AQ Khan's case as a permanent substitute for analysing Pakistan’s present nuclear-security architecture. History becomes guilt without expiry, who knew!
But that's not all! of course, there comes Kashmir, which is handled with similar intellectual laziness. Instead of seriously examining disputed sovereignty, war, repression, failed diplomacy and competing legal claims, Pakistan’s position is reduced to a psychological obsession arising from its Muslim identity.
A retired brigadier making expansive comments about nuclear use is presented as a window into Pakistan’s doctrine.
He is not the National Command Authority.
He is not the Strategic Plans Division.
He is not an official doctrinal document.
But guess what! nuance would spoil the drama.
The documentary also bundles together military businesses, hospitals, gated housing, blasphemy laws, Imran Khan, Afghan refugees, illegal weapons markets and attacks on Christians.
These are serious issues. BUT they are not evidence that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is insecure.
Here's the central fraud: collapsing four separate questions into one.
-Pakistan’s democratic governance.
-Its civil-military imbalance.
-Its internal security challenges.
-Its nuclear command and control.
DW treats them as interchangeable because differentiation would require actual analysis.
The final product is the standard Western Pakistan story:
-Too poor to govern itself.
-Too religious to be trusted.
-Too militarized to be democratic.
-Too unstable to possess nuclear weapons.
Pakistan has serious problems. None of them should be denied or romanticized. But a credible documentary would distinguish between nuclear safety, nuclear security, political stability and democratic governance. It would examine institutions, procedures, doctrine and evidence. It would compare Pakistan with other nuclear powers. It would ask whether the risks it highlights are demonstrated, plausible or merely imagined.
Strip away the ominous soundtrack and all that remains is a tired collection of stereotypes. The only real danger in this documentary is losing sixty minutes you will never get back.
@Muhammed78Hanan@MrAdnanRashid Though it is wrong and despicable, it does not take you out of the faith. It is not a core tenet of faith. It makes you grave sinner perhaps. But not a Kafir.
منشد ديني وحافظ للقرآن ويطلق عليه ترمب لقب "مشيري المفضل".. من هو عاصم منير قائد الجيش الباكستاني الذي يقود جهود الوساطة مع إيران؟
🔴عاصم منير امتدحه ترمب أكثر من مرة بعبارات تراوحت بين «جنرال رائع وقوي»، و«رجل استثنائي»، و«مقاتل رائع»
🔴عاصم منير كان أبوه معلماً في إحدى مدارس مدينة راولبندي، العاصمة السابقة لباكستان وإماماً لمسجد
🔴عاصم منير يزاول رياضة الكريكت، وحظي بدراسة دينية مبكّرة في مدرسة إسلامية تقليدية، وبعدها، تحوَّل إلى منشد ديني، ويُقال إنه حفظ القرآن بشكل كامل إبان تدريبه العسكري
🔴عاصم منير صعد في مجال الاستخبارات، وصنع لنفسه شبكة علاقات داخلية وخارجية، عرّفته على ملفات أفغانستان والهند والإرهاب والتوازنات الإقليمية
🔴عاصم منير أصبح يوم 29 نوفمبر 2022 رئيس الأركان الـ11 للجيش الباكستاني، ومنذ تلك اللحظة بدأ حضوره يتجاوز الإطار العسكري البحت، ليصبح لاعباً محورياً في السياستين الداخلية والخارجية لباكستان،
🔴عاصم منير تمت ترقيته في مايو 2025، إلى رتبة مشير ما جعله واحداً من أكثر القادة نفوذاً في تاريخ الجيش الباكستاني الحديث
🔴البرلمان الباكستاني وافق في نوفمبر 2025 على تعديل دستوري يمنحه حصانة قانونية مدى الحياة
The father of the "Islamic bomb" - Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan.
Pakistanis are celebrating the anniversary of the country's first nuclear weapons tests in May 1998.
The national hero behind those tests was A.Q. Khan (1936–2021), a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer known as the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb.
During the 80s and 90s, he led the uranium enrichment programme, enabling Pakistan’s successful nuclear tests in 1998.
He is a national hero in Pakistan for building its nuclear deterrent.
🇨🇦 Canada’s Bill C-18 requires social media platforms to pay news publishers for linking to their content. Meta refused and simply blocked all news for Canadian users instead. Drop Site News is among the outlets Canadians cannot access on Instagram and Facebook without a VPN. Journalist Samira Mohyeddin says the law has backfired badly ⏬
Even the staunchest supporters at least in online space are fast losing their patience with Khassipan, dithering, inaction and 5D chess they're playing. It won't change until there's a fundamental change in thinking and life of a Pakistani starts being valued for once.
Congratulations to Hussain Rehar and Sanam Saeed on a stunning debut at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, taking Pakistan’s fashion and creative excellence to the global stage. From Paris to Cannes, your work reflects the immense talent, craftsmanship and potential our country proudly holds. A proud moment for Pakistan and an inspiration for young creatives everywhere. 🇵🇰
These morons are so cold-blooded, 34 people got martyred, and an entire family in a nearby flat was martyred due to the suicide blast explosives, but they are busy tweeting about Cannes.
A devastating blast in Quetta has left dozens dead and injured but a Punjab “Senior Minister” chose to post week-old photos with congratulations. On such a day, basic sensitivity would have been to pause and postpone. The people-ruler disconnect is staggering