Global PE player. Lived & worked across 5 continents but Passport remains blue. Right of centre but willing to praise & criticise all hues. Proud of my origins
80% of all buildings in Gaza are destroyed, yet only 3% of the population has been killed during the war.
No matter how anyone tries to frame it, this is not genocide. This is what losing the war you started looks like.
An year after a Chinese warship rammed China Coast Guard vessel while chasing Filipino forces, China is now telling us that 2 coast guards were killed
Now they pin these deaths on Philippines
No. Your navy killed them. Blood is entirely on Chinese hand
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We must find our voice. The EAM's statement was timely and much-needed. There needs to be a sterner pushback. This Trump administration understands only the language of strength.
I find it fascinating that the Pakistani government is facilitating negotiations that (ideally) will lead to Iran’s abandonment of enrichment & nuclear weapons ambitions.
After all, it was the father of Pakistan’s own nuclear weapons program, AQ Khan, who transferred the first centrifuge designs, sub-assemblies & equipment to Iran starting in the late 80s.
(Pakistan, of course, claims he acted without authorization.)
This is Pakistan’s defense minister. Pakistan is acting as a “mediator” for the regime in Iran with the U.S.
Asif should be sanctioned by the U.S. and declared PNG in Washington.
@POTUS@SecRubio@SecScottBessent@SenateGOP@HouseGOP
The Prime Minister's Office:
Pakistan Defence Minister’s call for Israel’s annihilation is outrageous. This is not a statement that can be tolerated from any government, especially not from one that claims to be a neutral arbiter for peace.
Timely reminder that unlike the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan actually is a declared nuclear power. But like Tehran, Islamabad is working to increase the range of its ballistic missile arsenal to one day develop ICBMs.
I am dismayed. Active and serious negotiations have yet again been undermined. Neither the interests of the United States nor the cause of global peace are well served by this. And I pray for the innocents who will suffer. I urge the United States not to get sucked in further. This is not your war.
Annual reminder to Pakistanis: Narrative is not a substitute for reality. Front page of Dawn on Dec 17, 1971 - the day after troops surrendered at Dhaka to joint forces of India & Bangladesh -promised a victory that never came. #Pakistan#Bangladesh#VictoryMonday
Russian Pres Vladimir Putin made Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif wait for 40 mins. Sharif then decided to gate crash Putin’s meeting with Erdogan.
Hurting Putin’s ego is not a good idea. And Erdogan is Pak ke mai baap. Aukat bhool gaye Pak PM.
🇷🇺🇵🇰 UTTER HUMILIATION: While Putin travelled to India just days ago to expand India-Russia trade and strengthen friendship, Putin at an international forum in Turkmenistan kept Pakistani PM Sharif waiting for over FORTY minutes. Sharif then lost patience, gatecrashed the Putin-Erdogan meeting, groveled over to the Turkish President and then left 10 minutes later.
Did China protest over US special ops seize CCP's cargo ship delivering military equipment to Iran? No. Neither Iran nor China responded to this seizure. It's the first time U.S. special ops directly intercepted Chinese cargo ship. Score: Trump 1 vs. Xi 0.
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SHAME ON YOU, Mamata Banerjee !
The "Khela Hobe" Circus Turns into a TMC Loot-Fest at Yuva Bharati !
What a pathetic spectacle in Kolkata today ! Our football-crazed Bengali Fans, dreaming of a glimpse of the GOAT Lionel Messi, shelled out thousands for tickets, only to be treated like second-class citizens in their own state.
While Arup Biswas, Sujit Bose, and their bootlicking entourage of 100+ VIP vultures swarmed Messi like leeches on a bloodbath, the real fans? Stuck in galleries, staring at a measly 5-7 minutes on a giant screen ! No direct view, just betrayal.
And get this: Water bottles banned inside, forcing desperate fans to cough up ₹200 for a ₹20 bottle? Classic TMC extortion racket ! These so-called "leaders" turned a sporting icon's visit into their personal photo-op and profit bonanza.
This isn't just mismanagement; it's a criminal assault on West Bengal's pride and betrayal of our passionate football lovers. Enough is enough !
My Demands as Leader of the Opposition:-
1. FULL 100% REFUND for every gallery ticket holder, return every paisa you stole.
2. IMMEDIATE ARREST of Sports Minister Arup Biswas, Fire Minister Sujit Bose, and sham organizer Shatadru Dutta for this Govt Sponsored lawlessness, loot and chaos.
3. MAMATA BANERJEE MUST RESIGN for dragging West Bengal's name through the mud on the global stage. Step down before you destroy what's left of our state's soul.
Pre-election selfies with Messi for "Khela Hobe" propaganda? Now the cheated spectators have shown you what REAL khela looks like, exposing your corrupt circus to the world.
Relevant Video!!
The September 11, 2001 Attacks (9/11)
Place: New York City, Washington D.C., and Shanksville (Pennsylvania)
Casualties: 2,977 people killed (excluding the 19 hijackers)
Four passenger aircraft were hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists (headed by Osama Bin Laden) and crashed into the World Trade Centre towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, making it the deadliest terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil.
Osama Bin Laden was killed by a U.S. Navy SEAL Team in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
7 July 2005, London: British terrorists trained in Pakistan’s tribal areas carried out suicide bombings on London’s transport system, killing 52 people.
21 July 2005, London: A second terror cell with Pakistan-linked radicalisation attempted copycat bombings; all devices failed to detonate.
2009, Copenhagen (foiled): Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley plotted an attack on the Danish newspaper that published the Muhammad cartoons.
1 May 2010, New York: Faisal Shahzad, trained by Pakistan’s Tehrik-e-Taliban, attempted a car-bombing in Times Square; the bomb failed to detonate.
Pakistan remains a pawn in the hands of its military and ISI apparatus while the Pakistani Establishment) remains a pawn in the West's hands.
For decades, Bollywood was dominated by leftists who used cinema for subversive means. Brahmins were shown as devious manipulators; Rajputs were shown as oppressive and brutal landlords or dacoits; Pandits were portrayed as slime balls; Hindu saints and shrines as dens of inequity and perversion; Hnduism and Hindu values and beliefs were openly abused, derided, debunked; Muslim thugs (remember Sher Khan of Zanjeer) was a noble criminal and great friend; Movies pushed sarkari propaganda and were anti-industry anti business full of socialistic drivel; rich were always evil and to be poor was honourable; All that was kosher. In fact bollywood biggies (many of them from Punjabi refugee families who were thrown out and escaped with nothing but the clothes they had) became a spokespersons and propagandists for Pakistan despite the terrorism, enmity, hostility and hatred that came to India from that country.
One movie Dhurandhar on Pakistani terrorists, and the entire Pakistani sleeper cell crowd in Indian media, civil society has gone apoplectic imagining that heavens will fall on them.
Unfortunately heavens wont fall on these people and they will continue to stay in India and defend terrorists and Pakistani terrorism, in part because they share the same religion. Incidentally, their own cousins who migrated to Pakistan are treated like shit by the Punjabi Muslim. But apno se gaali bhi dua hoti hai for these characters.