Bakhtawar

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[Bakhtawar @babakhtawar]

Islamabad, Feb 2024. //

“Sometimes people use ‘respect’ to mean ‘treating someone like a person’ and sometimes they use ‘respect’ to mean ‘treating someone like an authority’

and sometimes (contd.)

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

"I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history" - @ProfessorPape.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

We warned you: the wholesale destruction of Gaza was not an exception, it was a blueprint to crush anyone who opposes the plutocratic imperialism embodied by US/Israel and their global allies.
Act now: defend int'l law from lawlessness, before the rupture becomes irreversible.

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

The most immutable rule of war is the law of unintended consequences.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be “known” with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

Read Michael Beckley on what a world without rising powers could look like:
https://t.co/iBNtj3doZo

[Usman Haider @usman_ndu]

My new article for the @Diplomat_APAC co-authored with @KcomalKhan . The article examines the claims made by the #IndianArmy regarding the use of AI during the May 2025 crisis.
https://t.co/ifQeiThVPX

[Hammad Waleed @HammadWaleed7]

Quadcopters Have Become the Taliban’s New Weapon – and Pakistan Is Not Ready.

We write for Small Wars Journal (@smallwars).

Click the link to read the detailed analysis and Pakistan's option to deal with this nascent yet lethal threat.

@shoaibm37

https://t.co/BESPdo25b6

[Janina Dill @JaninaDill]

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

[Bakhtawar @babakhtawar]

Same thoughts on the #geminitrend

[FunkLip @funkomi]

This is sweet but memory is already fickle. If we make things like this commonplace, we soon won’t be able to trust memory at all, even our own.

I worry for the mental health hellscape that would ensue.

[FunkLip @funkomi]

This is sweet but memory is already fickle. If we make things like this commonplace, we soon won’t be able to trust memory at all, even our own.

I worry for the mental health hellscape that would ensue.

[𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗞𝗘𝗧 @Alyhassan959]

Vlogger upgraded his village's School through his Social Media earnings in GB.

[Abu Cortex (AuDHD) 🇸🇱 @AbuCortex]

@justalexoki No way

[The STRATCOM Bureau @OSPSF]

Israel and Pakistan 🇵🇰 heated spat at the United Nations Security Council after Israel mentions Pakistan repeatedly by name:

Pakistan SLAMS Israel, says it is an “occupier feigning victimhood, violating UN resolutions and committing state terrorism in Gaza”.

Pakistan further says, “We cannot accept insinuations from an irresponsible rogue state that is, in fact, the perpetrator of the worst kind of state terrorism that we are witnessing in Gaza and, in fact, in the occupied Palestinian territories for decades.”

[Bakhtawar @babakhtawar]

Never ever ever ridicule, scoff or look down on someone for anything. Say astaghfirullah and seek refuge from the unpredictability of the human mind that may put you in that exact spot. May Allah guide us and 'them'

[Bakhtawar @babakhtawar]

May we learn to reserve the emotion of fear for Allah alone.

And nothing else; no person, no calamity, no circumstance. 🙏

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

We are drowning in confident men who have no reason to be.

In statistics, the way to know we’re right is to explore every way we might be wrong. We follow each alternative pathway with mathematical precision, quantify every doubt, and let only what endures stand as knowledge.

[Folkloristan @folkloristan]

The Patterns of Makli✨

[Bakhtawar @babakhtawar]

Saw this video and it is absolutely horrifying.
Hearing the child is in a coma due to the impact.

Some confusion regarding nationalities but completely bizarre to have a full grown adult pick up and smash a random 2 year old child into the ground head first!

Such cruelty.

[tara al-alami @taraalami]

An israeli belarusian man just attempted to murder a 2yr old Iranian child in Moscow airport by smashing his head on the ground. The footage is terrifying. It’s not an exaggeration to say those monsters should be excluded from all forms of civil society. They are a danger to all.

[Bakhtawar @babakhtawar]

Ironically, I only feel confident enough to share thoughts like these when I have things under control.

It remains true nonetheless.

[Bakhtawar @babakhtawar]

@m33r_6 @BBCWorld But more so it’s just lazy reporting.