Hassan Ahmed

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

The Defence Minister is right. It’s why I have never been considered Jewish by the Jewish community. My mother was a Church of England Protestant. And by this logic, my father was not Jewish either. His mother was a French Catholic. As ever, in attempting to undermine my sons, Pakistan’s Defence Minister has scored an embarrassing own goal.

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

🗣️ Arsene Wenger statement on Gianni Infantino’s failed FFE plans. “The recent events at FIFA deserve some clarity from my side.

“At FIFA, I am the Chief of Global Football Development. 

“Together with my team, I oversee the data analysis of the game, the FIFA online training centre, the development of youth education through 60 academies across 60 countries where they are most needed, and youth competitions around the world.

“In addition, I am a technical adviser to IFAB.

“I was not involved in this strategic plan and first became aware of the project through media reports.

“The decision to withdraw the project was absolutely necessary and beyond question, because I firmly believe in an independent FIFA that serves our game with commitment, transparency, and integrity.”

[Hassan Ahmed @HushAhmed]

@shanaka86 You made the right call. It is business as usual

[Bindu Reddy @bindureddy]

🚨 Agent Swarms Can Build Complex Software Systems

- Opus 4.7
- GPT 5.5 Thinking and
- Gemini 3.2 (shortly)

combined into an Agent Swarm to build complex full-stack software products

Stop paying for CRMs and SaaS, Just create custom software tailored for your organization

[Farhad Jarral @FarhadJarralPK]

A classified CIA assessment confirms what Pakistan has been navigating for weeks.

The Gulf is split. UAE and Bahrain want war. Saudi, Qatar and Kuwait want negotiations.

Saudi blocked US bases. Qatar endorsed Pakistan’s mediation. UAE recalled Pakistan’s loan.

Pakistan didn’t pick sides. It read every side correctly.

That is called strategic intelligence.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

LEANDRO.

[Nadeem Haque @nadeemhaque]

I rent at One Constitution Avenue. At 1 AM last night, I was jolted awake by heavy banging on the door. My first panicked thought: thieves. Instead, I was greeted by 50 heavily armored police officers — rude, aggressive, and clearly ready to beat us into submission if we resisted. They gave us no reason. Pretended it was for security as in recent times when peace negotiations were being held.

No court order shown. No documents. No explanation.

Just “vacate by 12 noon today.” Only later did I learn this midnight raid had a court’s blessing. Why am I not surprised? This is Pakistan’s “protocol court” justice at its finest.

The building has been in dispute for 20 years. During that entire farce, the CDA — the regulator that slept for years while the building was constructed and apartments sold

There’s even suspicion it was complicit.

Any reasonable judge would have treated the CDA as guilty if at a minimum negligence.

A regulator that was asleep (or worse) should not now be allowed to benefit. Apartment sales were formally recognized by the CDA and previous judges — so why suddenly reverse everything in CDA’s favor? The building ownership I am told is being transferred to CDA

What court in the world authorises 50 armed goons to storm a residential building at 1 AM, trampling individual property and tenancy rights with zero notice?

As I wrote in my latest Substack on judicial/bureaucratic over-reach: courts should appoint professional receivership instead of handing assets back to the same failed bureaucracy. “Development rights can be re-auctioned” in an open market — not gifted to the CDA. The building could easily have been placed in receivership, demising rights sold via transparent auction, value preserved, and residents protected.

But obviously our judges don’t know enough economics or real law. This is what serious law — what I call ELEVATE justice �� would require.

I called journalists. No TV, no radio.

Who needs this judiciary? Uneducated protocol seekers in robes, quick to destroy value after it’s created, while shielding the real culprits. Is this judgment even lawful? And even if eviction were technically possible, does it have to be this thuggish and inhumane?

This isn’t justice. It’s asset assassination by judicial decree.

https://t.co/bAwfSx4bUu

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This is a brazen pre-admission of genocide against the Iranian people, which would obviously be a war crime. Madness.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This is embarrassing, Delete it, President ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ - unless you want everyone to think you’ve lost your marbles.

[Abdul Moiz Jaferii @Jaferii]

Speaking of zardari and assets abroad, the rockwood estate and the Swiss accounts are two helpful trips down memory lane.

Zardari post second round in government:

Denies the Rockwood estate (Surrey mansion) after spending millions of pounds on refurbishing it, filled with hundred thousand pound chandeliers that he decried as being unthinkable for a leader from a poor country.

Then when it was about to be auctioned; zardari decided it was his after all and launched a claim to the asset from jail. He explained his earlier denial of ownership on medical ailments and sought a stay of sale proceedings.

During his second tenure, he was involved in the procurement of a digitisation project for the customs and ports. The companies that bid to win were SGS and cotecna. It was alleged that these companies paid hefty bribes to zardari to win the computerisation contracts. These led to prosecutions of the principals in Switzerland.

Zardari was Convicted in Switzerland for graft related to these contracts. Accounts related to him containing 60 million dollars in Switzerland were frozen.

Zardari then applied for access to these 60 million dollars once the freeze on the graft related account was lifted ONLY because Zardari’s legal team presented the NRO law to the Swiss court and argued that thievery was no longer a crime in that period in Pakistan.

As president in his first term, Once the NRO was declared void ab initio, Zardari’s pppp led government ignored SC directions to write to the Swiss asking for a revisit of that earlier NRO based acquittal.

The PPP Sacrificed a Prime Minister to prevent the writing of the letter. That prime minister was later rewarded with a return to the senate and tickets for his family.

Meanwhile, the court record of the entire Swiss proceedings were then taken from the Pakistani consulate in Switzerland. The person overseeing the taking of the record was then Pakistani consul general in the United Kingdom, wajid shamsul Hasan. Geo’s Murtuza from london was present there for the removal and asked wajid sb on camera what he was upto and the latter refused to offer any replies whilst smoking cigars on the sidewalk.

Jeeay Bhutto.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

Iran's position is being misrepresented by U.S. media.

We are deeply grateful to Pakistan for its efforts and have never refused to go to Islamabad. What we care about are the terms of a conclusive and lasting END to the illegal war that is imposed on us.

پاکستان زنده باد

[Javed Hassan @javedhassan]

Never thought Raftar was much of a democracy proponent, so I’m not really surprised by their latest hack job.

To all those who truly believe in democracy and the rule of law: it’s best not to waste too much time engaging with the channel. Simply cancel any subscriptions, stop viewing their content, and move on from whatever claptrap they produce.

The most effective and democratic response is to hit them where it matters — in their viewership and revenue.

[Reema Omer @reema_omer]

This particular clip is not from a “conference to revoke Pakistan’s GSP+ status”

It is from the General Debate under Item 9 of the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council. Kasim Khan speaks about rising intolerance and political persecution in Pakistan (among other concerns, some of which are factually inaccurate) and calls on the Council to urge Pakistan to end the persecution and release political prisoners. GSP+ isn’t mentioned

Available here at 41:45: https://t.co/ao81qdvAJt

[Aisha Ghazi @aishaghazi]

Dear Tariq Rahman, you not only owe a respect, rather you owe an apology to the martyrs of most heinous genocide that started from 7 March 1971 and the whole communities of Biharis and other non Bangalis were wiped out in brutal and systematic genocide designed by India and carried out by Mukti Bahini until Pakistan army was forced to opt for operation against genociders.

The gruesome details of Bihari and non-Bangali genocide in East Pakistan will shock the world if they ever came to the light. There were slaughterhouses set up and butchers hired to kill, there were rooms full of the bodies of young children who had been killed by smashing them in the wall, thousands killed and bodies thrown in rivers and genociders went in boats around the rivers looking for any signs of life in the bodies they had dumped in rivers so anyone found breathing could be killed with spears. Genociders raped the Bihari women and left Bangladesh flag stuck in their raped dead bodies. There were trains full of deadbodies, not just killed, but they were systematically cut to make them bleed to death. The kind of brutality that was perpetrated against non-Bangalis has hardly any equivalence in history and according to Tariq Rahman, it was all done by “unarmed people of Bangladesh”. No ! They were armed proxies of India working on bringing Bengali Muslims back in Indian shackles and it happened. Bangladesh has been a vassal state of India since 1971. 

Regarding “teachers and intellectuals” killed on 25th March, the question remains intact: when the whole country was in complete chaos and universities were closed for weeks, what were the “intellectuals and teachers” still doing in hostels? And why non-Bangali women had been found locked in the custody of those “intellectuals”? Why Bengali documentary filmmaker Zahir Rehan was abducted from streets of Dhaka in early 1972, never to be seen again, just for questioning the narrative of these “intellectual killings”. Just because he was looking for evidence of Indian involvement in these killings? You are Prime Minister now. At least open the case of Zahir Rehan again to give him justice. 

Let me enlighten you a bit more about the actual darkness of this history episode where whole Bihari communities were wiped out.

Just one example is Isfahani Jute mill community, where all the men were separated, killed and dead bodies were dumped in the river next to it while all the women and children were massacred in the hall of Isfahani Jute Mill. There were only two children survivors that Pakistan army pulled out alive from the rubble of dead bodies. One of these two survivors is still alive, living in Canada and suffers from a severe form of PTSD. When genocide started, this is the same community that paid security money to your so called first prime minister in exile, Tajjudin Ahmed, on his demand.

In People’s More mill community, there was not even a single survivor and the water reservoir beside the mill was full of deadbodies. When water dried in summer, there were thousands of severed heads of Biharis lying on ground, telling the story of what happened there. The same massacre was carried out in every corner of East Pakistan, specially in the areas bordering India. Your Kanchan river water turned red due to the blood of Biharis killed by Bengali agents of India. 

Dear Tariq Rahman, the irony is that Genociders have audacity to observe Genocide day without any remourse because they know the world doesn’t know the scale of genocide perpetrated by their own brethren against the non Bangalis. I have spent more than three years in researching Bihari genocide, I have extensively travelled to meet survivors and cross check their stories. I can write pages and pages on this forgotten genocide but for now, this beginner course is enough to enlighten you who do you owe respect and apology.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

One of our F-35s got hit over Iran. Thank God the pilot is safe. Those planes cost $100 million. USS Gerald Ford had a huge fire a week ago that took 30 hours to put out. That's the type of thing that happens when you're deployed for twice the length you're supposed to be.

Israel is running our military into the ground for their wars. All of the bullshitters in DC told us that this war would be easy, quick and cheap. Now, they're asking for $200 billion. Let alone all the cost of all our downed planes (five now), higher gas prices we all have to pay, and most importantly, our fallen soldiers (at least 13 now).

Are we sure Israel is our ally? Or do they view us as an easy mark. Our system allows for legalized bribery, so they did the logic thing and bought all our politicians.

And then our media tells us that our politicians are too honorable to be affected by hundreds of millions of dollars from the Israeli lobby. Hilarious. They seem to have us on lock down. Funny thing for an ally to do.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba

I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film

As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes

It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.

But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

[MENA Unleashed @MENAUnleashed]

🇰🇼🇶🇦🇦🇪🇸🇦 I guess I was right again. We are going to start witnessing regime collapses as early as 2027.

Three of the four biggest Gulf economies, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, have begun a joint internal review of whether force majeure clauses can be invoked across existing contracts. Sports sponsorships, investment pledges, government commitments, asset holdings. All under review. The mainstream read is that this gives the Gulf leverage over Washington. It does not. Washington has no incentive to respond.

The US is an energy exporter. American LNG is now selling at a premium into markets desperate for non-Gulf supply. Gulf energy, overwhelmingly destined for China, is off the market. That is not a problem for the Trump administration. That is the outcome. The Gulf states are not competitors to be protected. They are competitors that have been sidelined. Every barrel that does not leave the Gulf is a barrel China does not receive as it prepares for Taiwan. The US has no strategic interest in restoring Gulf energy flows. Trump offered naval escorts and insurance for shipping through Hormuz. Read that carefully. He offered it as a paid service, on American terms, to benefit American trade routes. He is not offering it to restore Gulf exports to Beijing.

The Gulf states have no leverage here. They pledged hundreds of billions to the US economy and received a war they explicitly opposed in return. They told Trump not to launch. They pressed for diplomacy until the last hour. They bore the full weight of Iran's retaliation anyway. And Washington does not care because structurally, this war is working for the US.

Now comes the harder reckoning. These governments are not just facing a budget crisis. They are facing a legitimacy crisis they cannot spend their way out of. Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE have overspent for years on national vanity projects and regime aesthetics while systematically underspending on education, economic self-sufficiency, and genuine diversification away from oil. Their populations have been kept compliant through subsidy and spectacle. That model requires money, stability, and the perception of invulnerability. All three are now gone simultaneously.

One week into this war they have already lost staggering sums. Between six and twelve months from now we are looking at mass contract cancellations, widespread layoffs, and fiscal positions that cannot be sustained without politically unacceptable cuts. The social contract in these states was never built on legitimacy. It was built on distribution. When the distribution stops, the contract collapses.

Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE are approaching regime-threatening instability. Saudi Arabia faces something different but no less severe. The Saudi regime may survive in form but regime change within the House of Saud itself is now a live scenario. MBS built his position on Vision 2030, on the promise of a transformed post-oil Saudi economy. That vision was already strained before this war. It is now structurally compromised. The internal Saudi power struggle did not go away. It was papered over with oil money and megaprojects.

This is not a temporary shock that Gulf governments can manage until the war ends. It is the moment where years of structural fragility meet an exogenous rupture they cannot control, cannot exit, and cannot afford.

[Pak-Afghan Matters @pakafghanmatter]

⭕️India-Israel Declares Full Support for Taliban in Israeli Parliament🇮🇳🇮🇱🇦🇫

Today, @narendramodi stood in the Israeli parliament and declared that #India, in coordination with #Israel, will provide full support and funding to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Analysts warn that this alliance is aimed directly at destabilising Pakistan, the region’s only nuclear power.

This announcement comes after a series of meetings conducted in November 2025: India’s NSA Ajit Doval visited Afghanistan 3 times, maintaining regular contact with Bashir Zeb (BLA’s HEAD) through Haibatullah Akhundzada.

During these meetings, logistical and financial support was extended to the BLA, laying the groundwork for attacks inside Pakistan, a fact confirmed through RAW-operated channels.

These preparations directly enabled HEROF 2, the BLA’s codename for its wave of suicide attacks in Balochistan, demonstrating how foreign funding and coordination were systematically converted into Terrorist operations against Pakistani civilians.

Financial assistance continues under the cover of development projects. Recently, India reportedly transferred $17 million to the Taliban under the guise of establishing a cultural centre.

In reality, these funds are being used to train and arm extremist formations in Afghanistan, including Fitna al-Khawarij and other proxies, who are then deployed to carry out attacks against Pakistan.

🗣️Haibatullah Akhundzada has openly acknowledged this support. In a voice message released He said:

“We need resources to continue our struggle and we welcome support from India and Israel.”

Today, this group has formally accepted assistance from the same countries responsible for killing Muslims in Gaza.

The #Modi-#Israel-#Taliban-#BLA nexus now represents a coordinated front against Pakistan. By openly funding and arming the Taliban and supporting operations like HEROF 2, this alliance has transformed Afghanistan into a hub for anti-Pakistan activity, with the clear objective of destabilizing Pakistan and ending its nuclear programme.

[Saffina Ellahi @SaffinaEllahi1]

If we are silent about injustice then we are the same as those who commit it. Today 70+yo @Noreen_KhanPK Apa fell because obstacles were deliberately placed to harm and prevent easy movement in the Adiala vicinity.

Take on board what Noreen Apa is going through on a daily basis. Her and her sisters are punished by Z i o n i s t Asim Munir in order to lower their morale. Keep her in your prayers for a full recovery.

#چلو_چلو_اڈیالہ_چلو
#ShiftKhanToShifaInternational

[Barrister Maleeka Bokhari @MalBokhari]

Your mother, Mohtarma Shaheed, was a woman of great integrity. As the first woman Prime Minister of an Islamic country, her legacy and achievements are respected across the political divide. To scandalise her character is unacceptable at any level.

However, as her daughter and as a woman who claims to stand up for the rights of women and girls, you were absolutely wrong to drag a woman’s right to remarry, as well as the controversial and frankly distasteful debate around iddat and related issues, into this matter.

It is shameful that you appear to hold the view that the women of Pakistan should be vilified and hounded simply for choosing to remarry.

To invoke the ‘iddat period’ case as some kind of precedent in order to settle political scores is wrong at so many levels. . Women’s personal choices should never be weaponised for point-scoring or dragged into partisan disputes

it would be wiser for you to step back and refrain from pushing forward, what is fast becoming a mud-slinging contest.