Azizullah Khan

Middle East I Public Policy I Development I Pak Economy I Islam I (old-Ravian).

[Abdul Hamid @hamid_JEA]

عباس ستانکزی:
زموږه ځيني شیخان او مسؤولین له اسلام څخه دومره تنګه توره کړۍ جوړه کړې چې پرته له دوی نه بل څوک په کې نه ځاییږي.

نن افغانستان کې د ښځو لپاره هرڅه بند دي.

چې امارت کې داسې يو پنځه نران وای، امارت پخپله اصلاح کېده.

[Ahmad Nawaz Sukhera @ansukhera]

If u want to watch just one video on X today, check this out!

❤️❤️❤️

[Ch Fawad Hussain @fawadchaudhry]

India has people like Huda Jarivala… they are not letting Modi and co turn it into #Endia

[ترکیہ اردو @TurkiyeUrdu_]

مسلمان ہونا جرم بن گیا
دہلی پولیس کا خاتون صحافی پر تشدد

[The Muslim Mum @TheMumMuslim]

Sami Hamdi Destroys Entire Zionist Panel at Oxford Union!

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

The Israeli🇮🇱 Consul General in New York came to Harvard University to lecture students on "Israel's just struggle,".

All students stood up and left the hall!😂🤣

[Sage @sages_smoothies]

Be mesmerised!📍

[Arab News @arabnews]

🔴 Saudi Defense Ministry says Combined Maritime Forces begin operational phase
🔴 Pakistan’s Commodore Rashid Sheikh assumes duties as coalition deputy commander
🔴 Liaison officers from member states and prospective members are taking up their posts https://t.co/JYhN6Wmfc3

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The general who conquered more land than Genghis Khan, Alexander, and Napoleon combined.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A bird’s brain smaller than a pea just outsmarted quantum scientists.

[🎞️ rootxdeep]

[Anna Jacobs Khalaf @AnnaLeaJacobs]

An important read from Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki Al Faisal on the importance of the Makkah defense pact https://t.co/JFt9YlMze9

[Muhammad Raza Saqib Mustafai @MRSMofficial]

ALLAH se madad mangain | اللہ سے مدد مانگیں

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

If you can watch only one video to understand current geopolitics, make it this one by George Yeo, one of Singapore's longest-serving cabinet ministers (23 years!)

As Yeo explains, current global geopolitics is fundamentally driven by US "retreat" and "decline", forced by a financial reality that no US administration can reverse: its debt servicing already exceeding its entire defense budget.

To Yeo, this explains why the US insists so much that its "allies" in Europe and Asia spend more of their GDP on defense - to basically pick up the tab for an empire America can no longer afford - but it also means that, inevitably, "once your allies begin to have their own military capabilities, they will think differently, and they will not follow you in everything that you want to do."

As such, American decline becomes self-reinforcing: the more it asks allies to carry their own weight, the less reason they have to follow its lead.

Still, Yeo says that a similar dynamic to one that happened after the fall of Rome could occur where America - like Byzantium did - sheds its empire and consolidates around its own hemisphere, allowing it to remain self-sustaining and powerful for a very long time.

He believes it's the direction things are heading - which would also explain Trump's obsession with Canada and Greenland.

It remains however obviously an open question whether an American "Byzantium strategy" is even achievable: Canada, for one, clearly wants no part of it.

Full video available here: https://t.co/99APyQjG3q

[Hamidreza Azizi @HamidRezaAz]

A New Round of Escalation in the #Iran War?

🔹U.S. strike on Iran’s Larak Island tonight should be understood in the context of a new contest over control of the Strait of Hormuz.

🔹Over the past two weeks, there have been growing indications that the U.S. has managed to restore some maritime traffic through the strait, particularly along a southern route close to Oman and around the Musandam Peninsula. Washington says it has cleared Iranian mines, while Iranian sources say the U.S. has also been using smaller tankers, ship-to-ship transfers, and nighttime movements to reduce exposure to Iranian surveillance and strikes.

🔹The same sources acknowledge that earlier U.S. attacks damaged some Iranian radars, monitoring towers, and surveillance equipment, making detection more difficult at night and creating openings that vessels have been trying to exploit.

🔹Iran, meanwhile, appears determined to prevent this limited opening from becoming a new reality. Iranian sources say the IRGC has been trying to extend its surveillance and strike coverage toward the southern route and prevent vessels from transiting without Iranian permission. They also suggest that Tehran has been preparing additional measures to close the remaining gaps, including renewed mining and attacks on vessels using the route.

🔹This may help explain the Larak attack. According to some reports, the targets were launchers preparing to fire rockets carrying sea mines toward the strait. Iranian sources also claim the IRGC had attacked several vessels shortly before the U.S. strike.

🔹The broader picture is therefore becoming clearer. Washington appears to believe it has regained the initiative by creating and protecting a limited shipping corridor. Tehran is trying to prevent that arrangement from consolidating.

🔹That also gives the U.S. strike a political dimension. Washington is signaling to markets and shipping companies that it can protect maritime traffic, while signaling to Tehran that expectations of U.S. restraint ahead of the midterms should not be mistaken for unwillingness to escalate.

🔹For Iran, however, allowing traffic to steadily normalize would weaken the main source of leverage it has built through Hormuz. This is why Tehran has strong incentives to respond.

🔹Tonight’s attack may therefore mark the beginning of another escalation cycle – this time centered on a struggle over who can actually set and enforce the rules of passage through Hormuz.

[Muhammad Maaz Siddiqui - ⚖️ @m_maaz98]

کیا خوب شاعری ہے ❤️
سن کر واقعی مزہ آگیا

[Dr. Yasir Qadhi @YasirQadhi]

It was surreal standing in front of the grave of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyya during my visit to Damascus last month.

His grave is situated in a small garden within a medical school campus - this used to be the site of a larger cemetery, but only these graves have been preserved. Next to him are buried his student Ibn Kathir, and Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ.

Damascus is a city whose history is unparalleled. The sheer quantity of ancient sites, historical monuments, and graves of the Companions and scholars, is something that cannot be found anywhere else.

[Ather Salem® @AthSal01]

پہلی بار ان کی باتیں دل کی تسکین بنی ہیں
یہ ہیں وہ حقائق جن کی پردہ پوشی کی جا رہی ہے ذاتی مفاد کی خاطر ۔
موجودیت علماء، فقہاء، فقراء کا یہی حال تو ہے

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Hundreds of local residents and Buddhist monks in the coastal Sri Lankan town of Hiriketiya protested against increasing Israeli presence.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

As Arundhati Roy said, what is under the rubble in Gaza is not only the bodies of countless Palestinians killed by Israel, but also the carcass of Western Liberal Democracy...

[Workers Party of Britain @WorkersPartyGB]

When they cannot interfere, they will intervene. When they cannot intervene, they will occupy.

Over 2,000 British citizens have served in the IDF genocide of Palestinians. They are waiting for orders.