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[Geo Political Updates @GeoPolUpdates]

And my account too got added to the list of withheld accounts in #India.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: The New York Times reports the US and Israel are making preparations for possible resumption of attacks against Iran as early as this week

[brief. @brief_pk]

Pakistan’s Government borrowed $258 million from Chinese investors by having international institutions guarantee 95% of the debt, then called it a vote of confidence in its economy. That is like a friend co-signing your loan and you celebrating your credit score.

It is a trick Pakistan has performed before. The government has turned the art of borrowing into a form of political theatre so polished that the audience no longer notices the stage is on fire. Every crisis becomes a milestone. Every guarantee becomes a triumph. Every debt becomes a new chapter. The country does not need to fix its economy. It just needs to hold the ceremony before anyone reads the footnotes.
brief looks deeper into the Panda Bond story.
https://t.co/hSqbfBGcn0

[Reuters @Reuters]

US President Trump left China with no major breakthroughs on trade or tangible help from Beijing to end the Iran war, despite two days spent heaping praise on his host, Xi Jinping https://t.co/wfs0uqVyvV

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

According to the New York Times, citing two Middle Eastern officials, the U.S. and Israel are preparing to possibly resume combat operations against Iran, possibly under a new name, as early as next week. Per the report, options for targeting include what one official called more aggressive strikes against both military and infrastructure targets. Additionally, another option on the table is to use special forces to go in and extract highly enriched uranium from inside Iran. However, per the report, this would need thousands of supporting troops and numerous other support elements to succeed and the risks of such an operation are extremely high.

[Mina Al-Lami @Minalami]

1/ ISIS has called on former foreign fighters in Syria who settled in the country to join its ranks, seeking to capitalise on recent tensions between a group of Uzbek former fighters and the government of Ahmed al-Sharaa. IS warned foreign fighters that the Sharaa government would sooner or later move against them and eliminate them, either all at once or gradually, at the behest of external powers. It instead urged them to join forces with IS, which it claimed represented the only pure and uncompromised Muslim banner and project.

The appeal came in the editorial of IS's weekly newspaper, al-Naba, released on 14 May.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Iran and UAE clash at BRICS foreign ministers' meeting https://t.co/SLAnnG83Sj https://t.co/SLAnnG83Sj

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Justice Dept. is planning to drop charges against India’s richest man, Gautam Adani, after a lawyer for the billionaire made an unusual investment offer. https://t.co/08sl331XCJ

[Financial Times @FT]

Saudi Arabia floats Middle Eastern non-aggression pact with Iran https://t.co/9o3PMxoxJe

[RT @RT_com]

BATTLE OF HANDSHAKES

Trump tried his SIGNATURE HAND-PULL MOVE only to be CONTESTED by XI

AND THE WINNER IS…

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Families of 10 Pakistani crew members from the Honour 25 rallied in Karachi to demand their release after more than three weeks in Somali pirate captivity.

Hijackings off the coast of Somalia are surging amid regional instability from the US-Israeli war on Iran.

[RT @RT_com]

Bangladeshi man kisses an Uzbek man at a poultry farm in Russia's Leningrad region — sparking a mass brawl

The Uzbek man's father noticed the peck, and chaos followed, according to 47news

About 60 people got involved: 20 were hospitalized, seven in serious condition

[Financial Times @FT]

Saudi Arabia launched strikes against Iran https://t.co/EbwrFu9mqs

[Reuters @Reuters]

Exclusive: Saudi fighter jets bombed targets linked to powerful Tehran-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq during the Iran war, while retaliatory strikes were also launched from Kuwait into Iraq, multiple sources familiar with the matter said https://t.co/Y58PBD1bZr

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: U.S. intelligence reports show that Iran retains substantial missile capacity, despite President Trump’s claims otherwise. https://t.co/gHLM1oA9yh

[Reuters @Reuters]

Exclusive: Iraq, Pakistan strike energy deals with Iran as Tehran flexes Hormuz control https://t.co/xPU0HZkAt2 https://t.co/xPU0HZkAt2

[Reuters @Reuters]

Exclusive: Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said https://t.co/roQOErwt5k

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

“Our daily life is being affected. Our personal life is being affected and obviously, the hard work has increased.”

How Pakistan's fuel crisis sees some women planning their days around the prospect of gas. https://t.co/9UxjX2JF9g

[Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani]

Folks! My gmail account was hacked. I have recovered it but please do not open any links coming to you from my gmail address.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

⁠Pakistan plans to ⁠increase oil imports ⁠from Russia during the ‌Strait of Hormuz crisis, Russia’s ⁠state-run TASS news ⁠agency reports, quoting Pakistan’s ambassador ⁠to ⁠Russia, Faisal Niaz Tirmizi.

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[Ali Hamza @alihamzaisb]

Big companies like P&G, Shell & Microsoft are leaving Pakistan. Why? High taxes, expensive energy, currency problems & trouble getting their money out. The government is trying to fix things but it's an uphill battle for foreign investors.

@NuktaPakistan https://t.co/Bs7IJhFur1