@AnasMallick Your soldiers are getting slaughtered literally everyday in KPK and Balochistan, can't provide security to them, and want to be "net security provider". Some jokes write themselves ๐คก๐
@Rehan_ulhaq Funding and systems matter, but they are not the whole equation. Elite sport also requires exceptional talent. Better investment increases the chances of finding and developing champions, but it can't manufacture world class ability if the underlying talent pool is limited.
@dweplea I feel he was a good support player, never the 'main man' , but was consistently solid in that. Even in their biggest vicotories during his career, he has somehow played the second fiddle wheras some of the other 'lesser' players did the heavy lifting.
@raahi_bhushan Freed margin is the biggest temptation. I'd use it as a cushion, not as an excuse to increase size. A few saved blow ups are worth more than a little extra theta.
@AnasMallick Calling something "irrelevant" while obsessively posting about it is quite the contradiction. People don't usually spend this much time and energy on things they deem irrelevant. Call it many things, but irrelevance isn't one of them. A therapist might help with the fixation.
@omar_quraishi India never disowned the civilization that gave rise to Bharat. Pakistan did. After decades of centering a post-711 identity, suddenly Taxila, Indus and the Bharatas become indispensable. Civilizational inheritance isn't something you remember only when you need historical depth.
@tequieremos Funny how the narrative shifts. In academia, Pakistan's story begins with Bin Qasim when seeking antiquity, it's suddenly Indus and Taxila. You can't alternate between ideological origins and civilizational inheritance as convenient. The state of Indus heritage sites says enough.
@tequieremos Is this worse than when US Marines reportedly killed 20 Pakistanis outside the Karachi consulate 3 months ago and Islamabad didn't even have the spine to utter a word? Just trying to understand your standards.
One more thing that I have observed recently in Pakistani sports is the growing trend of false claims and misrepresentation of achievements. Some individuals claim doing things that are either exaggerated or simply untrue, while others claim to have broken records they never actually set.
There is also the rise of dubious boxing bouts that seem to turn everyone into a "world champion," despite many of these athletes having little or no notable success at the amateur level in Pakistan. Similarly, club-level competitions are often portrayed as global championships, creating a misleading picture of sporting achievement.
If we continue to glorify and amplify such narratives, genuinely accomplished athletes will be overshadowed. Their hard-earned achievements and inspiring stories may remain underreported, while attention is diverted toward manipulated stories rather than real sporting excellence.
@tequieremos The problem is that these statements don't change reality. Article 370 is history, the Indus Treaty is in the dustbin, and Pak hasn't altered either fact. At some point, celebrating diplomatic wording looks less like strategy and more like living in a fool's paradise.
@welawaqeel689 Forget India for a moment. Has the jihad proxy project actually benefited Pakistan? Four decades later, that's probably the only question worth asking.
@Tej_Intel You're assuming the gap between a top 3 star and a 4 star is massive and also purely meritocratic. At that level, chance, timing, vacancies and succession play a bigger role than many people realize. Plenty of exceptional officers never become service chiefs.