Big Winner of the Iran Deal: Pakistan
Islamabad’s mediatory role in the war gives the country a rare serving of positive worldwide press.
If Pakistan’s leadership is smart, it will use this moment in the global spotlight to advance economic growth and alleviate widespread hardship
@PakPMO@ForeignOfficePk@CMShehbaz@Financegovpk
by @dhume
https://t.co/jOIPHhxtND via @WSJopinion
Dr Yasmin Rashid was with us at the Kot Lakhpat jail trial till 6pm today despite her old age, deteriorating health and the hot weather as yet another jail trial is reaching conclusion.
Her 84 year old husband, Rashed Nabi Malik Sb, was also present as he always is to support his wife.
Courts need to consider her suspension and appeal applications soon and authorities need to consider shifting her to a good hospital.
It’s been more than three years that she has been incarcerated despite her age, health and other factors all being in favour of her being granted bail earlier (and now suspension of sentence on the same grounds).
Please do not blame IMF for the increase in Levies on Petrol and Diesel.
What IMF needs is the increase in Revenue only and that can be done by implementing taxes on retailers and traders which sadly govt has failed to implement.
You go Saddar Karachi and just look at the financial transactions being carried out on daily basis, all go untaxed, tax them and get the revenue thing done instead of raising levies and easy money.
You go mega restaurants that bluntly operate on cash to avoid taxes, just raid them, penalise them and get the hell of generation instead of putting strain on common people in the form of levies on petroleum.
You go livestock market, document that sector and please get this revenue thing done immediately instead of raising levies.
You go after agriculture sector, sieze their land and get the revenue thing done by collecting taxes instead of putting a middle man living a stressful life only to meet both ends by increase levies on Petrol and Diesel.
You please go after smugglers,just get the hell out of them and let our document products get sold and collect taxes from them instead of putting levies on Petrol and Diesel and then blaming IMF for the mess that is sheer incompetence of our own institutions.
You go after property markets, re value them as per actual values and get the hell of capital taxes from them and get this revenue thing done instead of blaming IMF and imposing levies on innocent middle class Pakistanis.
you go after cartels, use forces, ask them about windfall profits and get the revenue thing done by taxing those profits instead of doubling down on beautiful middle class families who are suffering from stress, pain, inflation, taxes, poor infrastructure, snatching, hospitalization bills.
Update: I got into the Israel real estate event at Park East Synagogue.
Inside I saw at least one table advertising properties in the West Bank, including Kfar Eldad and Karnei Shomron.
While Prince Rahim Agha Khan had not charged a penny for negotiations taking place in Serena hotel, the business community of twin cities have given an equivalent sacrifice by shutting down businesses for the sake of Peace, now twice in a span of 2 weeks.
CDA accused of ignoring elite clubs’ encroachments while targeting slums...
Islamabad Club, which was set up on leased land, is accused of encroaching on over 51 kanal of CDA land.
Also, the Gun and Country Club, is operating without any allotment or lease letter from the CDA on around 256 kanal. Very good story by @AbbasiKashif833
https://t.co/ZwzrIDGNQx
🇱🇧 The Southerners are 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿
to reach their villages.
No bridge. No permission. No waiting.
Feet in the water.
Hearts arriving home before bodies do.
44 days they were told: "𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻."
The river tonight is 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀:
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱.
𝗢𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝘁.
𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲.
Because whoever knows the way home
𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱.
With the greatest humility, I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
I warmly welcome the sagacious gesture and extend deepest gratitude to the leadership of both the countries and invite their delegations to Islamabad on Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes.
Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability. We earnestly hope, that the ‘Islamabad Talks’ succeed in achieving sustainable peace and wish to share more good news in coming days!
@realDonaldTrump@JDVance@SecRubio@SteveWitkoff@SEPeaceMissions@drpezeshkian@mb_ghalibaf@araghchi
When POTUS tells the Europeans, Indians, etc., to open the Strait of Hormuz on their own, it's very simple what these nations will do: they will cut deals with Tehran, pay tolls to pass through the Strait, and they will pay those tolls in Chinese Yuan. End of Petrodollar.
Explosions from Iranian territory being heard as far as Jiwani, Balochistan, Pakistan. United States and Israel have bombed Chabahar and Bandar Abbas a while ago. Villages of Pasabandar and Gotar Fazgah close to the Pakistani border in Iran have been targeted.
There is a county that terrorizes the mideast, destabilizes the mideast, uses nuclear blackmail to threaten the west, killed more civilians & kids than any other mideast nation, and poses an imminent threat to the peace & prosperity of the US. It's Israel.