Ayesha Mazhar

MS International Relations| Defence & Strategy| Foreign Policy|Kashmiri🍁

[Ayesha Mazhar @ash_mazhar]

Time to read Al Ghazali 😭♥️♥️♥️

[Zeroni @inh3rit]

I have never seen an author open their books with such rousing beauty & eloquence except al-Ghazali, so much so that the greatness survives even the passage into another language.

[Mujamma Haraket @MujammaHaraket]

“In private meetings of Hamas’s Political Bureau, [Yahya] Sinwar frequently quoted Frantz Fanon and Malcolm X, reminding his colleagues that the decolonization of Palestine required not only religious piety but also anti-imperialist resistance. One statement from this period is remembered as follows: ‘Israel does not fear our mosques. It fears our unity, our discipline, our refusal to submit to oblivion, and our refusal to shirk the struggle.’”

—Mehr News Agency, “Negāhī be kār-nāmeh-ye ‘Shekārchī-ye Jāsūsān’” [A Look at the Record of the ‘Spy Hunter’], Mordād 26, 1405 [August 17, 2026].

[Ayesha Mazhar @ash_mazhar]

@avarakai keep Wishing. FYI Rawlakot is part of the Poonch Div. hopefully that rings some bells.

[H’s mom @aiishadahir]

We read Surah Al-Kahf backwards.

I used to think the lesson of Musa and Khidr was:

“One day everything will make sense.”
Now I think the lesson is much deeper.

Allah never asked you to understand His plan.

He asked you to trust Him while you don’t.
And perhaps that is the hardest act of worship of all.

[Zephyrus(SendNukes)™ @The_SharkSlayer]

To strike India from the East, by taking a trip around the globe... 🥱

[Ayesha Mazhar @ash_mazhar]

@The_SharkSlayer 😂

[Fidato @tequieremos]

Days after the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled in Pakistan's favour against India's illegal suspension of the Indus Water Treaty, India officially floated $23.52 billion infrastructure tenders on 20 May 2026 for the Chenab–Beas Link Tunnel Project in the Lahaul Spiti region. This is an act of grave aggression, permanently diverting Chenab River water allocated to Pakistan under the IWT.

An 8.7 km tunnel, 4.3 metres in diameter, will unilaterally divert 2 Million Acre Feet of water annually from the Chandra River, the principal tributary of the Chenab, eastward into the Beas basin. This diversion directly violates the UN Watercourses Convention of 1997, Article 60 of the Vienna Convention of 1969, and the dispute resolution frameworks of the IWT.

Pakistan must take immediate action by filing an application with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for provisional measures to secure a stay order against the tunnel construction.

Simultaneously, the security establishment must convey a willingness to undo any such effort by India, even if it means using force.

Finally, the state must aggressively build delayed local water storage, because every acre foot we store is one that cannot be weaponized against us.

[Munim @Munimusing]

Glad that someone brought that up.

That was much needed at the time.

But this picture that became iconic speaks for itself. The exercise being witnessed here is Hammer Strike, conducted on 1 May 2025 at the Tilla Field Firing Ranges in Jhelum -- a high-intensity field training exercise led by Pakistan Army's I Corps, the Mangla Strike Corps. COAS attended personally. Hammer Strike is a whole theory, and those who study it properly should put the name of Lt. Gen. Nauman Zakaria squarely among its architects. He has commanded I Corps since May 2024, and before that, he served as DGMO at GHQ -- the precise billet from which Pakistan's offensive operational planning paradigm is shaped. His HI(M) and Sitara-e-Basalat decorations, the latter awarded for his conduct during the May 2025 India-Pakistan conflict, speak to the operational weight he has carried.

Now, Hammer Strike is very interesting. The theory carries several inevitable outcomes, the foremost being the conversion of what was structurally a defensive posture into an offensive deterrent, which Lt. Gen. Nauman is alluding to in his address. This is a qualitatively different class of thinking from the reactive hedging that characterised previous generations of senior leadership. The Indian side has not yet fully absorbed the strategic burden Pakistan is shouldering alone, though the onus of disciplining Indian adventurism rests at least as much on the Western capitals that have been steadily pampering New Delhi's strategic narcissism.

Hammer Strike is built directly upon a vulnerability that the Galwan crisis of 2020 exposed. Following the Galwan clashes of June 2020, in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed, India was forced to dual-task and ultimately redirect its Mathura-based I Corps -- historically the senior of its three Pakistan-facing strike formations -- toward the Ladakh front. By December 2020, Army Headquarters had issued written orders reassigning I Corps to a mountain strike role, converting its two infantry divisions for operations against China. The Ambala-based 2 Corps and Bhopal-based 21 Corps were to retain their role as tank-heavy forces, equipped and trained to advance deep into Pakistan in wartime, while the third strike corps -- the Mathura-based 1 Corps -- was reassigned to become a mountain strike corps oriented toward Chinese territory from Ladakh. This rebalancing constitutes a major commitment and a costly signal; re-tasking a strike corps is not simply a matter of pointing forces in a different direction -- the conversion into mountain infantry requires retraining and re-equipping that will take years to complete and will be extremely difficult and costly to reverse.

This is the structural opening Hammer Strike exploits. In an active war scenario, Pakistan's two strike corps would have to contend with what were originally three Indian strike corps on the western front; post-Galwan, that arithmetic has materially shifted. Hammer Strike doubles down precisely on this window. The operational concept envisages a high-fidelity, extremely fast armoured thrust northward through the Sialkot-Shakargarh corridor -- the Ravi-Chenab axis -- driving hard toward the southern foothills of Jammu and Kashmir and seizing and holding that terrain. This corridor is not chosen arbitrarily; it is the same Ravi-Chenab corridor through which India's I Corps launched the Battle of Chawinda in September 1965 -- still among the largest armoured engagements since the Second World War -- and where the Shakargarh bulge, that tongue of territory jutting between the Chenab to the northwest and the Ravi to the southeast, creates the decisive terrain for any northern offensive. The theory postulates an aggressive advance in the Day 1 scenario and, from that seized terrain, the encirclement of Indian formations arrayed from Lahore to Multan as a secondary operational objective within Day 2 and Day 3. This logic maps directly onto both the procurement programme and the doctrinal re-alignment visible across the aviation, armoured and mechanised formations.

Alongside modernising the armoured corps, Pakistan has in recent years been strengthening and modernising the mechanised divisions under IV Corps (Lahore), XXX Corps (Gujranwala), XXXI Corps (Bahawalpur), and V Corps (Karachi). Unlike I Corps Mangla, the Multan-based II Corps and these formations are not the offensive instrument -- they are the anvil: configured to absorb, attrit, slow, and hold Indian thrusts across the Rann of Kutch, Sindh, and southern Punjab while the strike element does its work in the north.

Hammer Strike is the mature next iteration of the New Concept of War Fighting (NCWF), the joint doctrine Pakistan formalised in 2013 following four Azm-e-Nau exercises run between 2009 and 2013 -- a body of work initiated by General Kayani as a conventional counter to India's Cold Start Doctrine. Between 2009 and 2013, the Pakistan Army conducted military exercises codenamed Azm-e-Nau to formalize and operationalize a conventional response to Cold Start, at the conclusion of which Pakistan adopted the NCWF, aimed at improving mobilisation time and enhancing inter-services coordination, especially between the Army and the PAF. What Hammer Strike adds over NCWF is offensive depth, exploitation logic, and an integrated understanding of how India's two-front dilemma can be converted from a chronic Pakistani vulnerability into a structural advantage.

Lt. Gen. Nauman's role in this is, perhaps, directly analogous to what Air Marshal Aamir Masood, the one you see now on screens, did for the PAF's air warfare doctrine. AM Aamir Masood -- commissioned in 1988 as a fighter pilot, graduate of the Combat Commanders' School, volunteered into the squadron that'd have answered a very plausible Israeli adventurism right on the occupied territories during 1998 tests (Sq. Ldr. Amir Masood was said to have spent the better part of May 1998 strapped into his cockpit), and eventually DCAS (Training) at Air Headquarters before his promotion to Air Marshal in July 2020 -- was among the founders of the Aerospace Centre of Excellence (ACE), which serves as the home for combat commanders, houses the school for standardisation of operational publications and the aggressor squadron, and hosts the Air Warfare School for national and international composite operations and exercises. PAF ACE was formally established at PAF Base Mushaf, Sargodha, with its groundbreaking in 2016, with the PAF's Combat Commanders' School subsequently placed under its command. The BVR capability, deep studies of Indian foremost assets -- Oniks (Brahmos), S400s, and Rafales, and air combat doctrine that underpinned the PAF's performance in the February 2019 engagements and later in May 2025 did not emerge spontaneously -- it was built methodically through the institutional machinery that AM Aamir helped construct, largely out of public view, over the better part of a decade.

[Talha Ahmad @talhaahmad967]

Between the silence of peace and the noise of war lies the art of dialogue.

[Ayesha Mazhar @ash_mazhar]

The number of likes reposts and bookmarks on this are appalling. In reality offrs never even look towards you directly if you are a fellow offr wife. These morons with their BS fantasies are spewing this India induced filth for a few likes.

@OfficialDGISPR

[Maham @MoonFlower_98]

I know this might sound like a conspiracy theory but being a psychologist you get to hear things that you wish were just that.

Sad but it is a predominant culture there.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

The lack of news on Gaza isn’t because the genocide is over.

It’s because Israel slaughtered the journalists and Western media pretends there’s a ceasefire.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Can you imagine your girl like this? Try. It’s important.

[m. @chaipanii]

Insta post of Haifa umar (Wife of famous producer Jokhay) related to Pakistanis held hosted in Somali cost.
Please raise your voice for every person and family going through the pain

[Murtaza Ali Shah @MurtazaViews]

Over 200 Pakistani nationals are currently in the custody of Cambodian police, facing severe conditions including lack of food, water, and safe accommodation, held together in overcrowded and unsafe facilities, where living conditions are extremely harsh.

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

The genocide in Gaza is not in the past tense. The blockade, starvation, and killing continue—this is still the present reality. Lord, have mercy.

[Ray Youssef @raythewarchief]

A 6 year old kidnapped beaten and returned with missing organs.

The horror is beyond our worst nitemares

[Nusrat Javeed @javeednusrat]

By now, Pakistan should've realized...Iranians are taking their sweet time deciding if they'll even show up for Round 2 of talks with the US in Islamabad. So why keep Rawalpindi & Islamabad in full lockdown mode — roads sealed, traffic halted, everything looking paralysed as if under some ominous spell? Time to ease off the high alert and let the capital breathe until Tehran decides to take the flight to Islamabad. Diplomacy needs patience for sure...but not permanent paralysis.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Total Identified Child Fatalities: At least 21,289 children were confirmed killed by Israeli occupation forces as of early February 2026.

[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ذوالفقار علي ڀٽو @BhuttoZulfikar]

HIV medication is available in Pakistan free of cost thanks to the National AIDS Control Program Pakistan. One must simply go and register.

Anti-retrovirals can turn your status from infectious to Undetectable meaning untrabnsmittable within three months and save the lives of countless more people. I would like to see our leaders talk about these subjects. They are urgent.