🚨 🚨 For the attention of @TahirAndrabi
Spokesperson @ForeignOfficePk
For the past 45 days, 11 Pakistani citizens have been stranded off the coast of Somalia completely abandoned, without help, food, or essential supplies. These are not just statistics; these are 11 families. These are sons, daughters, mothers, and wives waiting in agony for their breadwinners to return home safely.
There is no doubt that these are complicated international matters and these things take time, but these families deserve real answers.
They deserve more than a generic, occasional statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs claiming they are "in touch with Somali Maritime forces." They deserve an actual, dedicated lifeline. There must be a designated committee or official from MOFA whose sole responsibility is to be in direct, daily contact with these families, providing them with the transparency and respect they are owed.
After escaping an abusive husband and pleading for protection, Sukkur’s Gullaan Bharo returned home for her father’s “honour” only to be tragically murdered days later in yet another heartbreaking alleged karo-kari killing in Sindh.
Names of the 10 Pakistani crew members aboard an oil tanker vessel taken hostage by Somali Pirates. The PMO must inform the public what actions are being taken to ensure their safe return and why the families are made to feel helpless and left alone #BringBackOur10
These are our citizens believing that Pakistan will pull its new found muscle to ensure their safe return home & free them from Somali pirates. So far the families of these hostages don't even have a central helpline they can call to get updates. Govt has not given way forward
@ForeignOfficePk@MOIOfficialPak@MIshaqDar50
This is a matter of life & death that needs your GRAVE & UNDIVIDED ATTENTION before it is too late!
10 Pakistanis were abducted 8 days ago by Somali Pirates & every passing minute is heartbreaking for these families. #bringthemhome
To end the deadlock in the negotiations and build trust, the US should lift the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and release the captured Iranian ship so that Pakistan can bring Iran to the negotiating table as a mediator. The aggressors are the US and Israel, not Iran. Instead of defeating Iran, they have lost the war of self-narratives. Iran is not Venezuela, Libya or Iraq. The US cannot win a war waged on the behest of the Zionists at the negotiating table. It can only save face. If Iran is destroyed, every country in the region will be badly affected and the US will have to bear the burden.
To the Pakistani journalists suddenly peddling pro-US "peace" narratives: If Trump is such a peacemaker, why the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and constant threats of destruction against Iran? We must question Washington directly. Otherwise, it looks like the US is using Pakistan’s shoulder to fire its own gun. Pakistan must maintain strict neutrality
Absolutely INCREDIBLE 🤣
AFTER President Trump announced Iran agreed to RE-OPEN the Strait of Hormuz…
… UK PM Keir Starmer announced the UK and France are “leading” a “MILITARY MISSION” to re-open the Strait of Hormuz
These people are WORTHLESS 😂🤡
Time to leave NATO!
1. Try not to show yourself too happy. Have a little prestige;
2. Never, (emphasize) never think to the new legal regime of the Strait of Iran. We will fix it;
3. Turn off the phone, relax, no more posts and, block Bibi for one week;
4. Eat a light dinner and sleep well.
This is an outstanding article from @DanQayyum, which reinforces much of what I learned about Pakistan during my five years living in the country.
"They are only finally being seen as who they are. A people who have absorbed war, terrorism, economic crisis, and decades of narrative assault, and who have responded not with bitterness but with tea, charity, laughter, music, and an insistence on dignity that no amount of external pressure has been able to break."
Pakistan Zindabad.