🇺🇸🇮🇹 Trump on Meloni:
"Does the Italian public like the fact that your prime minister isn’t giving us any help in getting the oil?
Do people like it? I can’t imagine they do.
I’m shocked by her.
I thought she had courage, I was wrong."
Source: Corriere
A blockade to block the blockade that's blocking the Strait that wasn't blocked before being blocked due to war of choice launched by Trump. Strategery!
محمد میڈیکل کالج میر پور خاص کی یہ پانچوں بیٹیاں تھرڈ ایئر میں پہنچ گئی تھیں،
پانچوں اساتذہ کی مسلسل ہراسمنٹ کا شکار رہیں مگر اپنی عصمت کا تحفظ کرتی رہیں،
مگر پھر پانچوں پراسرار موت کا شکار ہو گئیں جسے خودکشی کہہ کر دبا دیا گیا،
اب فہمیدہ لغاری بھی اسی درناک انجام کا شکار ہوئی،😢😢
سندھ حکومت ملزموں کو کیفر کردار تک پہنچانے کی بجائے ان کا تحفظ کیوں کر رہی ہے؟
سندھ حکومت پولیس، ایف آئی اے، سی آئی اے اور دیگر ایجنسیوں کے کسی دباؤ کا شکار نہ ہونے والے افسران کی جے آئی ٹی کی نگرانی میں حقائق کی تہہ تک پہنچنے کے لیے شفاف تحقیقات کیوں نہیں کرواتی؟
کیا شفاف تحقیقات میں ایسی شخصیات کے نام آ سکتے ہیں جن کے ڈانڈے ایوانِ صدر سے جا ملتے ہیں؟
کیا اسی خوف کی وجہ سے سندھ کی پانچوں بیٹیوں فہمیدہ لغاری، نائلہ رند، نمرتا چندانی، نوشین کاظمی، سنیہا کیسوانی کی یکے بعد دیگرے پراسرار اموات پر ان کے والدین کی شفاف تحقیقات نہیں کروائی جا رہی؟
خواتین کے حقوق کے تحفظ کی علمبردار تنظیمیں خاموش کیوں ہیں؟
قوم ان سوالوں کے جواب مانگتی ہے۔
@PresOfPakistan@AAliZardari@BBhuttoZardari@AseefaBZ@BakhtawarBZ@MuradAliShahPPP@ShaziaAttaMarri@ShahNafisa@sherryrehman@HRCP87@hrw@amnesty@UN_Women@NoorulHudaShah@marvisirmed@ShamaJunejo
#JusticeForDrFahmidaLaghari
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Lebanon was the deal-breaker nobody is talking about enough...
The nuclear issue and Hormuz get the headlines.
But according to sources inside the talks, a critical breakdown came over Lebanon.
The U.S. offered to convince Israel to stop strikes in Beirut first, then "gradually expand" the pause to southern Lebanon and the rest of the country.
Iran wanted an immediate, full ceasefire across all of Lebanon. They couldn't bridge that gap.
This is the pattern playing out exactly as predicted throughout this war.
Israel's refusal to stop bombing Lebanon has now directly contributed to the collapse of U.S.-Iran peace talks.
The country that wasn't even in the room in Islamabad torpedoed the negotiations from 3,000 miles away.
The ceasefire clock keeps ticking.
Every day without progress is a day closer to the bombs resuming.
And every day Israel keeps hitting Lebanon is a day Iran can point to as proof that American commitments mean nothing.
Source: Axios
I didn’t know much about the Pakistani media before today, but it seems there are two camps:
* Those who recite the facts that previously happened in an objective summary
* 99% who seem just eager to praise Pakistan and saying “big announcement coming…” every 20 minutes
The most reliable news out of Pakistan has basically been Al-Jazeera - a sentence I never thought I’d say a decade ago.
We can’t trust Axios or Fox.
WSJ and NYT aren’t giving breaking updates.
The local media has too much government interference apparently.
Tasmin has been more transparent but is government aligned Iranian source so you can’t fully take that at face value.
Truly wild how far the standards globally on journalism have fallen, and I hope it’s something that can be repaired.
Listen up, Trump, and every dumb fuck in Washington who still thinks the Strait of Hormuz is some kind of American parking lot.
This aint international waters. Never was. Never will be.
Under the law of the sea, every coastal country gets twelve nautical miles of its own goddamn territorial water. The narrowest choke point in Hormuz is only twenty one miles wide. That means Iran and Oman own the whole fucking strait from shore to shore. Overlapping. Locked. Closed. No high seas. No open ocean free for all.
Iran controls the big islands too, Qeshm, Hormuz, Larak, Abu Musa, the whole chain. You sail through, you are in somebody elses house.
Iran never even signed that UNCLOS treaty, so they dont have to play your transit passage game. They say innocent passage and they mean it. You bring guns or you bring trouble, they can say no.
America starts wars because it never learned geography in school. They bomb first, read the map later. Before you drag us into another bloodbath, open a fucking atlas. The water belongs to the land that touches it. Not to the country that prints the most dollars.
Learn it now or bleed for it later.
Vulnerable Oil Pipelines and the UAE’s Existential Delusion
If the problem is the closure of the Strait of Hormuz in the event of a conflict, I would say that these ideas only last until the conflict actually begins. Once it starts, both the terminals and the oil pipelines will be bombed.
The Gulf countries have not yet understood that they need to reach some kind of arrangement among themselves. And the United States should encourage this, focusing on regional stability.
It has become clear that U.S military control of the region no longer exists. The bases only serve to waste money and expose the Arab countries to confrontation with Iran.
The Emirates are living in an existential delusion, believing they can return to previous levels of prosperity while maintaining a confrontational stance toward Iran.
The UAE is face-to-face with Iran. After what happened in this war, who will invest in Dubai without the certainty that the country has reached an understanding with Iran? The illusion of American protection no longer exists.
The same applies to all Gulf countries. Both the appeasement of Iranian-backed militias and the reduction of the American military presence around Iran are political decisions that need to mature through greater dialogue, something that will not be achieved with the confrontational tone the Emirates have maintained.
On the contrary, the Emirates are deluded and will see their economy face serious difficulties if they continue down this path.
Carrying out persuasion through military encirclement with bases against a missile power is no longer viable today.
Decades ago, those bases might have received the occasional imprecise Scud. Today, they face showers of missiles and drones. These bases are no longer practical in the current era, and the same applies to bases in Asia surrounding China, or NATO bases surrounding Russia.
The new reality is simple: only underground bases supported by a vast ecosystem will survive future conflicts.
The Cold War strategy of containment has proven to be a failure in modern wars. It merely exposes troops to grave danger without delivering real security. The entire model must be completely rethought.
The war with Iran has demonstrated that military bases now require a minimum safe distance from adversary missile and drone threats, and even then, they must be built underground. Surface bases have become liabilities rather than assets.
Since last night, in several rounds of negotiations between the Iranian delegation and the Pakistani side, the issue of the Trump regime's commitment to its obligations has been pursued. Since Vance's arrival, these discussions and pressures on the American side have intensified.
Pakistan has led from the front as US–Iran talks begin in Islamabad, working closely with partners to encourage de-escalation and dialogue. I pray these efforts succeed and deliver a positive outcome that strengthens regional stability and paves the way for lasting peace.
I was safer in Pakistan (rather than the US) during covid.
Many Americans moved abroad (like myself) because we’re safer in the Middle East and South Asia.
“Armed… dangerous and [a] government… not fully in control…” could also apply to the USA.
3rd grade scare tactics don’t work anymore.
@RnaudBertrand@Kathleen_Tyson_ For your understanding: Pakistan's PM do not abuse countries on X and tweet off the coughs! Obviously the tweet was drafted, vetted and then sent to PM as a draft!