@dawn_com The trilateral defence pact with Saudi Arabia & Turkey should serve purely as deterrence. The military and government must ensure Pakistan stays clear of other nations' missteps and under no circumstances should this alliance be turned against any Muslim state.
@Mushahid Pakistan wasn’t a one-man show by Jinnah, there were a few high-ranking Muslim officials in govt who played crucial roles in its creation. Share the credit.
However, it’s just heartbreaking that systemic corruption stopped the country from ever reaching its potential.
@MiddleEastMnt What’s the ultimate casus foederis for the Red Sea naval task force? Opening a fresh military front against the Houthis in Yemen is reckless folly. The region is already a powder keg, this just tosses in a match.
@TheNationalNews When Palestinian polling centers like PCPSR rely on heavy EU and Western funding, you have to ask whose narrative is really being served. Foreign-funded surveys framed around Western foreign policy goals shouldn't be taken as neutral facts.
Rabbi: The descendants of Ishmael (Muslims) are impossible to defeat.
He describes the unbeatable power of Islamic jihad and martyrdom: the absolute willingness to struggle and die for the sake of God.
For refusing to abide by the Iranian navigational instructions, Iran has struck two Emirati tankers in the Strait of Hormuz with underwater drones used for the first time in this war.
🔴Updates from Qusra
We have succeeded in bringing water, food and medicine to the besieged homes in the village of Qusra.
Using my immunity as a Member of Knesset, I crossed the police blockade, met with the family inside and brought equipment to restore the water supply that was cut by the settler terrorists.
Dear Polish MEP,
Before lecturing Iran while cheering for Trump, remember your own history.
During WWII, when Poland was fighting for survival and thousands of Polish Jews had nowhere to go, much of the world turned its back. But Iran despite suffering famine and foreign occupation itself opened its doors to over 116,000 Polish refugees, including thousands of Polish Jews, giving them shelter, food, schools, safety, and dignity.
Before judging Iran, remember who stood by your people when they needed it most.
History shouldn't be so easily forgotten.
@D_Tarczynski
Iran Threatens To STRIKE 100 Strategic Sites If Syria Attacks Hezbollah
The warning reportedly includes MORE THAN 100 strategic sites across Syria, with the PRESIDENTIAL PALACE specifically named as a potential missile target.
The message was reportedly delivered through Turkey, while Iraq, Qatar and Saudi Arabia were also informed.
Iran is drawing a red line around Hezbollah: cross it, and the conflict expands directly into Syria.
@Tracking_Power Both you and Murray are making incorrect assumptions. Iran’s inclusion into the defence pact would be welcomed and making the treaty rock solid, hopefully they will join at a later stage.
This investigation by the Financial Times is staggering in its findings and in its scope and methodological rigor. Some of the findings, backed up by incredible levels of forensic evidence:
1) Israel completed much of its systematic destruction across Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon after Israeli forces took control of already-emptied villages in mid-April, and after the April 17 ceasefire. The ceasefire was used to make these areas completely uninhabitable.
2) The scale of destruction is incredible. Roughly 85,000 housing units damaged or destroyed (likely an undercount); 62 villages and farms inside the "yellow line" occupation zone, covering ~6% of Lebanon and extending ~10km inland, with ~270,000 residents barred from returning. Over 20% of the south's farmland and forest destroyed, ancient olive groves worst hit. All Litani river bridges destroyed; at least 2,500km of water infrastructure gone.
3) This is stated policy and an intentional plan to make an entire area uninhabitable and never allow the population to return. Defence minister Israel Katz explicitly invoked the "Rafah and Beit Hanoun model" and later boasted of destroying "24 Lebanese villages… not house by house, but entire villages."
4) This is without a doubt a war crime. Destruction of property requires immediate military necessity and not speculative ideas that Hezbollah may use a building some day. Not allowing the return amounts to the ethnic cleansing of the area.
The lack of any real consequences for Gaza, meant that Israel felt free to do the same in Lebanon. It is now doing the same in the West Bank. This will stop unless we stop it.
@AJEnglish Most likely many girls are being schooled at home. It’s such a shame that the Taliban hold the females of their country in such low esteem and remain the most backward and narrow minded Muslim nation in the world.
@MIshaqDar50 Members prefer the name Ansarallah over Houthis. Engagement is far more effective behind the scenes than through public statements of condemnation. The reasons behind their Red Sea attacks are well understood, and responsibility does not lie with them.