AN OPEN LETTER TO ZALMAY KHALILZAD: YOU'RIGHT — AND THAT IS THE TRAGEDY
Mr. Khalilzad,
You're right. Truly. Not about Pakistan — about your own grotesque record.
Every word you post, every alarm you raise, every piece of foreign propaganda you bless is a flawless confession of the cynical, blood-soaked opportunist you have always been.
So let me agree with you, completely, for once.
I am a media person. For twenty-five years I have watched you — not as a diplomat, but as a recurring contagion.
Peshawar. Kabul. Baghdad. Houston. Doha. Five stages of a devastating career, leaving a trail of ruined nations and stacked corpses that completely outlive every toxic promise you ever sold.
I have followed your every move.
That is exactly why I will not sit silent while an architect of regional catastrophe crowns himself the moral conscience of my country.
You urge Pakistanis to "watch, debate, and discuss" a German state documentary about our nuclear arsenal.
Fine. Let's debate. But not on your terms — on the undeniable record. DW's first, then yours.
Deutsche Welle's fifty-two minutes are not journalism.
They are a clumsy, bad-faith hatchet job pinned beneath a press badge.
The film opens on the word "illegally" — claiming Pakistan "illegally" built the bomb — as if a legal counter exists where sovereign nations queue up to ask Western permission for warheads.
It does not.
India never asked. Israel never asked. Germany's dearest geopolitical masters built their arsenals down the exact same road, yet DW's hypocritical cameras went conveniently blind.
There is no legal counter for a nuclear bomb. There is only the deterrence against the one your enemies already hold.
Then comes the deeper, malicious lie: DW notes Pakistan "revealed" its nuclear capability in 1998 while deliberately erasing who detonated first.
India lit the fuse in South Asia in 1974, and again in 1998. Pakistan simply refused to be left defenseless before an existential threat.
Erase that foundational truth, and self-defense is twisted into aggression.
That is not bad journalism. That is intentional propaganda.
And this comes from Germany's state channel — the funded moralist of a nation whose geopolitical credibility is rotting in real time.
Berlin was humiliated at the UN Security Council in June 2026, losing its seat to Austria and Portugal: the arrogant lecturer of the world, openly rejected by it.
This follows Chancellor Merz praising foreign strikes on Iran as doing Germany's "dirty work," openly declaring international law "does not apply" when inconvenient.
A nation that discards the law for its allies has zero standing to audit anyone else.
But you know all this hypocrisy intimately, Mr. Khalilzad.
Because you didn't just witness the radicalism you now hypocritically warn about.
You armed it. You funded it. You wined and dined it. And ultimately, you handed an entire country back to it.
Let us dismantle your record, because it is the ultimate, damning rebuttal to your posturing.
Act one, the 1980s. As a Reagan-era operative, you helped spearhead the campaign to flood the region with weapons, arming extremist factions against the Soviets.
You personally lobbied to keep advanced weaponry flowing — including Stinger missiles — and later shamelessly admitted the United States "did not care" who received the firepower.
You knew precisely where those weapons and fighters went.
They became al-Qaeda. They became the Taliban.
You did not accidentally encounter extremism. You armed it, unleashed it, and sent the bill to South Asia.
Act two, the 1990s. You traded state influence for corporate greed — working as a consultant for Unocal, calculating how to push gas pipelines through Taliban-controlled soil.
In 1997, you sat comfortably in a Houston hotel dining with Taliban ministers over a multibillion-dollar deal.
On October 7, 1996 — exactly five years before the invasion that would devastate millions — you publicly urged Washington to embrace, recognize, and fund the Taliban.
The man now lecturing Pakistan on extremism was once the primary lobbyist for the most regressive regime on Earth — all because a pipeline ran through their backyard.
You preach about the fire today only because you catered its opening banquets.
Act three, the Bush years, the warmonger, and your naked personal ambition.
Under George W. Bush, you served as a primary architect of regional destruction — a ruthless warmonger driven by raw ego.
You positioned yourself as Afghanistan's viceroy, harboring the absurd, delusional ambition to install yourself as President of Afghanistan.
When that failed, you moved to Baghdad as proconsul, nurturing the exact same fantasy of ruling Iraq while presiding over an occupation that tore the Middle East apart.
You didn't just want the region burned under Bush; you wanted to rule over the ashes.
You never cared about these nations. You wanted to be the foreign master who redrew their maps.
Here is the staggering blood toll of your ambition, documented by Brown University's Costs of War — not Islamabad:
Over 940,000 human beings slaughtered by direct military violence in the wars you helped design.
More than 432,000 innocent civilians who never held a weapon.
Indirect casualties pushing the real death toll toward 4.5 to 4.7 million lives.
38 million human beings displaced and turned into refugees.
Nearly $8 trillion incinerated �� only to leave behind two completely shattered, bloody states.
Act four, the catastrophic surrender. Afghanistan is the ultimate monument to your failure.
Twenty years, a trillion dollars, and millions of destroyed lives — ending with the Taliban casually marching back into Kabul in broad daylight through the door your 2020 Doha agreement unlocked.
The exact same extremists you armed in the eighties. The exact same men you dined with in the nineties.
You started with them, you surrendered to them, and in between, you sacrificed an entire generation.
You didn't fail a mission. You executed a bloody, cyclical betrayal.
You are nothing more than a recurring historical villain.
History is full of reckless men who mistake mass destruction for statecraft and demand applause right up until the carnage catches up with them.
The arrogant generals who sent an entire generation to die in the mud of the Somme for zero gain.
The architects of Vietnam who claimed they had to destroy villages to save them, calling mass murder a triumph.
Robert McNamara, who calculated human suffering by body counts and issued a cowardly apology decades after the graves were filled.
Henry Kissinger, decorated with honors while foreign cities burned beneath American bombs.
History records every single one of you. History despises every single one of you.
You belong on that exact same shelf of shame, Mr. Khalilzad — a credentialed, cold-blooded strategist who was repeatedly handed the torch, repeatedly set the world on fire, and still has the audacity to return and complain about the smoke.
So yes — you're right. This is precisely who you are.
This is your world view : that foreign nations exist merely to be bombed, destabilized, exploited for pipelines, and lectured by the very interventionists who destroyed them.
The world is sick of this arrogance. It has buried millions of victims under your certainty.
We do not need another failed viceroy with a pipeline blueprint, a crate of Stingers, and a lecture.
We need the absolute destruction of everything your disastrous career represents.
Peace, not forced wars. Sovereignty, not foreign interference.
Pakistan's internal challenges are real, and they belong strictly to us: our economy, our politics, our security.
Ours to fix. Ours to debate. Ours to fight over — without foreign propaganda channels or disgraced warmongers attempting to curate our reading list.
The arsonist will never be permitted to grade the fire brigade — least of all the arsonist who manufactured the matches.
So let's debate, Mr. Khalilzad.
We will start with the four and a half million dead left in the wake of your foreign policy — and the weapons you handed to terrorists long before the first bomb fell.
History has a long, dark shelf for arrogant men who mistook destruction for legacy. It will never forgive you.
Building. Not burning.
— Dr. Shahid Masood
A Pakistani journalist who has watched your path of destruction for twenty-five years, and is still waiting for the accountability you so richly deserve.
THE DEATH OF PAKISTAN'S 1985 POLITICAL ORDER
This is NOT an argument against democracy.
It is an argument against a political order that was never truly democratic and never reflected the spirit of Pakistan's 1973 Constitution.
History does not collapse overnight.
Political orders decay long before they disappear.
I believe Pakistan is living through that moment.
The political order born in 1985 has reached the end of its historical life.
It is rotten.
It is disconnected.
It is exhausted.
It is expired.
Before it came a nominated Majlis-e-Shoora.
Then came the 1985 non-party elections.
From that process emerged a political class that would dominate Pakistan for nearly four decades.
Governments changed.
Prime Ministers changed.
Military interventions came and went.
General Musharraf built another arrangement.
Hybrid systems followed.
The system changed. The political cartel did not.
They adapted to every ruler.
They negotiated with every centre of power.
They opposed one system...
...then joined the next.
Their loyalty was never to democracy.
Their loyalty was to power.
Their loyalty was to privilege.
The 1985 order did not build democratic parties.
It built dynasties.
Politics became inheritance.
Leadership became a bloodline.
Public office became a family asset.
Political parties became family estates.
Family estates evolved into business empires.
Business empires became political cartels.
That is not democracy.
That is elite capture.
There was no enduring national vision.
No structural economic reform.
No institutional transformation.
No serious plan to build a competitive state.
Only rotating alliances...
...power-sharing...
...patronage...
...and survival.
The faces changed.
The beneficiaries did not.
Pakistan changed.
Its people changed.
Its economy changed.
Its technology changed.
Its youth changed.
Its political architecture did not.
Pakistan's young generation competes with Artificial Intelligence, robotics, biotechnology and the global digital economy.
Its political system still behaves as if the country never left 1985.
That is not continuity.
That is stagnation.
Then came the economic cost.
Pakistan accumulated debt.
Institutions weakened.
Productivity stagnated.
Confidence collapsed.
The country repeatedly entered financial crises.
A country buried in debt has only one honest starting point.
Follow the money.
Follow the assets.
Follow the businesses.
Follow the beneficial ownership.
Follow the unexplained wealth.
Follow the financial trails wherever the law permits.
Public office must never become immunity from financial scrutiny.
No democracy survives when public trust dies.
The issue is bigger than corruption.
The issue is Rule of Law.
Without Rule of Law, there is no free market.
Without Rule of Law, there is no investment.
Without Rule of Law, there is no merit.
Without Rule of Law, there is no democracy.
A state cannot survive if the law is negotiable.
A republic cannot prosper if accountability is selective.
Accountability delayed is accountability denied.
Selective accountability is political theatre—not justice.
The law must apply equally.
To politicians.
To generals.
To judges.
To bureaucrats.
To business elites.
To media owners.
To everyone.
No family should be bigger than the Constitution.
No network should be stronger than the State.
No office should be above the Law.
This is why I repeat:
I am NOT against democracy.
I am against a political order that weakened democracy while claiming to defend it.
I am not calling for another military intervention.
I am not calling for another hybrid arrangement.
I am not calling for authoritarian rule.
I am calling for constitutional democracy in its fullest form.
A democracy with internal party elections.
A democracy with transparent political finance.
A democracy with equal accountability.
A democracy where leadership is earned—not inherited.
A democracy where political parties belong to members...
...not to families.
History offers one universal lesson.
Even long-established democratic systems face crises when institutions become weaker than personalities.
No political order is permanent.
Pakistan's is not an exception.
The debate today is not about replacing one politician with another.
It is about replacing an exhausted political order with a constitutional democratic order.
The 1985 political order has reached the end of its legitimacy.
Its politics is inheritance.
Its economics is debt.
Its method is patronage.
Its protection is privilege.
Its outcome is elite capture.
Pakistan does not need another dynasty.
Pakistan does not need another cartel.
Pakistan does not need another managed democracy.
Pakistan needs Rule of Law.
Pakistan needs Equal Accountability.
Pakistan needs Constitutional Supremacy.
Pakistan needs Internal Democracy.
Pakistan needs Economic Merit—not Political Inheritance.
The death of the 1985 Political Order is not the death of democracy.
It is the opportunity for real democracy to finally begin.
History does not bury nations.
History buries obsolete political orders.
The question is no longer whether the 1985 order is ending.
The only question is whether Pakistan has the courage to build what comes next.
As my X account has been “throttled” acc to @grok - after a deal was done between @elonmusk & the Pakistani government to lift their x ban, this is a request to UK based Pakistanis an any of those who are able to read this tweet (unlike those in Pakistan) to please RT and help get this message out.
@LauraLoomer You. Have. The AUDACITY.
A woman banned from Uber, Lyft, Facebook, Twitter, PayPal, GoFundMe, Venmo, Medium — and her own CONGRESSIONAL BUILDING — is out here lecturing the world about terrorism and nuclear weapons?
Let's talk about YOUR hands first.
🩸 You cheered while 46,000+ Palestinians — 17,000 of them CHILDREN — were bombed into mass graves in Gaza using US-made F-35s and 2,000lb bunker busters. You didn't just support it. You called it "not enough." That's not politics. That's not ideology. That is a sickness.
🩸 Pakistan's nukes? Pakistan has NEVER dropped a single bomb on any human being in its entire existence. The ONLY country in human history to vaporize civilian populations with nuclear weapons was YOURS — Hiroshima and Nagasaki — 214,000 civilians annihilated in 72 hours. Zero Muslims. Zero Pakistanis. Americans. Remember that every time you open your mouth about nukes.
🩸 You want to talk terrorism and Pakistan? The CIA created, funded, and armed the Mujahideen in Afghanistan — the very operation that directly spawned Al-Qaeda. The monster you point at was built in Washington, funded by your tax dollars, and celebrated by your side of the aisle. The chaos you blame on Pakistan has an American signature on it.
🩸 Pakistan — a country you've never visited, never studied, and know absolutely nothing about — is a nation of 240 million people. A country that absorbed 3.5 million Afghan refugees when your country was slamming its doors. A country whose Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai took a Taliban bullet to the head fighting for girls' right to read. A country whose doctors, engineers and scientists are holding up Western hospitals and universities. But sure Laura — they're all terrorists to you.
🩸 You scream about coexistence while cheerleading an apartheid state that has demolished 600+ Palestinian villages, enforced a suffocating blockade on 2.3 million people for 17 years, and has been formally charged with GENOCIDE at the International Court of Justice. The entire world voted against it. The entire world. And you cheered.
☪️ And since you invoked Islam — the living faith of 1.8 BILLION human beings:
The Quran declares that killing one innocent soul is like killing ALL of humanity (5:32). Prophet Muhammad ﷺ signed the Charter of Medina in 622 CE — history's first pluralistic constitution guaranteeing equal rights to Jews, Christians and Muslims — a full thousand years before Europe stumbled onto the concept of religious freedom. When Caliph Umar conquered Jerusalem in 638 CE, he personally protected every church and synagogue — something your Crusader ancestors catastrophically failed to do when they bathed Jerusalem's streets in blood in 1099. When Muslims governed Spain for 700 years, Jews flourished so completely they called it their Golden Age. Islamic scholars gave the world algebra, astronomy, surgery and modern medicine while your ancestors were burning women as witches and torturing heretics in the name of Christ.
You are not brave. You are not a truth-teller. You are not a journalist. You are a radicalized, blood-soaked, genocide-endorsing extremist who has been rejected and banned by civilized society itself — standing in the smouldering wreckage of your own credibility, pointing filthy fingers at 1.8 billion people.
The world doesn't fear Pakistan's nukes, Laura.
It fears what happens when people like you get power.
War criminals, genocide cheerleaders, and hate merchants don't get to stand on podiums and lecture humanity about peace and coexistence — they belong in the dock at The Hague, in handcuffs, answering for every dead child their words helped bury.
History is watching.
And it is taking names. 🖤
A Govt Minister has tweeted that a medicial board is being set up for Imran khan. Secondly, we are hearing in news that Imran Khan is to be shifted to Al Shifa eye hospital in Rawalpindi.
Our demand has been clear from the beginning. Imran khan shall not be given any treatment WITHOUT the presence and approval of his personal doctors and family members.
We do NOT accept any medical board they set up and control!
We do NOT accept any reports or results they manufacture.
Our family is getting extremely worried as to why they are resisting the selection of specialists advised by Imran Khan’s personal doctors.
Why are they rejecting the supervision by Imran Khan’s personal doctors?
Why are they rejecting the presence of Imran Khan’s family members?
Why such fierce resistance?
Are they hiding something?
We have been informed that my father, Imran Khan, has lost most of the vision in his right eye, with reports indicating only 15% eyesight remains. This is the direct consequence of 922 days of solitary confinement, medical neglect (denied blood tests) and the deliberate denial of proper treatment in jail.
The responsibility lies squarely with the regime in power, the Army Chief and the puppets enabling this cruelty. This physical deterioration is happening under their orders, their watch and their responsibility. They have manipulated and warped the justice system in order to keep my father in solitary confinement.
My brother and I are still being denied visas to see our father as his health deteriorates. History will record this injustice.
We urge human rights bodies, legal institutions and democratic nations to confront this persecution and ensure those responsible face consequences.
@Sarah4Trump_ Target killing of Canaian citizen, killing plots in USA,
killings in parts of Pakistan (especially in Baluchistan recent train high
jacking is one of them). Sectarian and religious violence all over India
itself. The NSA of India is on a wanted list in the USA.
“Loss of human life in Pahlgam incident is deeply disturbing and tragic. I extend my deepest condolences to the victims and their families.
When the False Flag Palwama Operation incident happened, we offered to extend all-out cooperation to India but India failed to produce any concrete evidence. As I predicted in 2019, the same is happening again after Pahlgam incident. Instead of introspection and investigation, Modi Sarkar is again placing the blame on Pakistan.
Being a country of 1.5 billion people, India needs to act responsibly instead of messing with a region already known as “nuclear flashpoint.” Peace is our priority but it should not be mistaken as cowardice. Pakistan has got all the capabilities to give a befitting response to any Indian misadventure, as My Government, backed by whole nation, did in 2019.
I have always emphasized the importance of the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination, as guaranteed by United Nations resolutions.
I have also been highlighting the fact that India led by RSS ideology is a grave threat, not only to the region but beyond it. Indian oppression in Kashmir, intensified after the illegal abrogation of Article 370, has further fueled the Kashmiri people’s desire for freedom.
Sadly, the nation has been divided by an illegitimate government imposed through fraudulent Form-47 results. And yet, ironically, Narendra Modi’s aggression has united the people of Pakistan in one voice against Indian hostility. While we reject this fake regime, we stand firmly as one Pakistani nation and strongly condemn Modi's war-mongering and his dangerous ambitions that threaten regional peace.
Needless to say, to win the war against an external enemy, the nation must first be united. It is high time to put a halt to all actions that are further polarizing the nation. The state’s excessive focus on political victimisation at this critical time is deepening internal divisions and undermining the nation’s collective ability to confront external threats.
It is naive to expect any strong stance from self-serving figures like Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari. They will never speak out against India because their illegal wealth and business interests lie abroad. They profit from foreign investments, and to protect those financial interests, they remain silent in the face of foreign aggression and baseless allegations against Pakistan. Their fear is simple: that Indian lobbies might freeze their offshore assets if they dare to speak the truth.”
Illegally incarcerated Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan’s discussion with the lawyers in Adiala Jail Rawalpindi (29-04-2025)
What does the #Pahalgam massacre of tourists in #Kashmir remind me of?
A little over 25 years ago, on the evening of 20 March 2000, when US President Bill Clinton had just arrived in New Delhi for a 5 day visit to the region, about 15 armed men dressed in army fatigues entered Chhatisinghpora village in Kashmir’s Anantnag district, gathered its male Sikh residents, and shot dead 38 of them.
While the Atal Behari Vajpayee government (L.K. Advani was HM) blamed Hijbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba for the carnage, there was no incontrovertible evidence.
Five days later, on 25 March 2000, Col. Ajay Saxena, Commanding Officer 7 Rashtriya Rifles (Retired as Brigadier), Lt. Col. Brajendra Pratap Singh 2IC 7 RR (Retired as Col), Lt. Saurabh Sharma of Military Intelligence 7RR (Retired as Major), Lt. Amit Saxena Adjutant 7 RR (later Major) and Nb. Sub. Idrees Khan (later Subedar) of the Indian Army killed five men in Pathribal village of Anantnag district, claiming that the victims were the "foreign militants" responsible for the attacks. Official reports claimed that security forces had, after a gun fight, blown up the hut where the men were hiding, and had retrieved five bodies that had been charred beyond recognition. The bodies were buried separately without any post mortem examination.
Protests soon erupted as locals alleged that at least 17 innocent Kashmiri Muslim villagers had been detained by the police and the army, and were then “disappeared”. They suspected that the alleged “foreign militants” the 7 RR claimed to have eliminated, who they claimed were responsible for the Chhatisinghpora massacres, were actually some of these innocent Kashmiri Muslim villagers.
To cut a long story short, bodies were eventually exhumed and DNA tests established the five men who were killed by the 7 RR and claimed to be foreign militants were local villagers. A CBI enquiry established that the claims made by 7 RR were false and these men were abducted, held illegally in custody, killed in a staged encounter, and their identities were sought to be obliterated by burning the bodies. Even though the Indian Army was compelled to prosecute the accused in a General Court Martial, it acquitted all of the officers and men citing insufficient evidence.
Meanwhile, in 2006, in the introduction to former US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright’s book, The Mighty and the Almighty ? Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs, Bill Clinton wrote: “During my visit to India in 2000, some Hindu militants decided to vent their outrage by murdering 38 Sikhs in cold blood.”
The book's publisher, Harper Collins, later dropped that statement.
What most people, who have not lived in a conflict zone for decades under AFSPA, do not realise is that many of the massacres in such areas are extremely murky and the perpetrators may not exactly be who the government or authorities claim they are to be. Many such killings are carried out for various reasons – to foment communal/ethnic clashes and destabilize the state government, for political capital to shore up electoral prospects, and for numerous political and geo-strategic objectives.
A series of such killings of innocent family members of top ULFA and NDFB leaders took place in Assam between 1997-2001, infamously known as the “Secret Killings”, which were, in effect, carried out by the police and surrendered militants working for the police. No one ever got prosecuted and convicted for those. My own stumbling on to the information about who were the surrendered ULFA militants and police personnel who had gone out from the Nalbari Police Reserve on the night of killing of Mithinga Daimary’s family in Barama’s Nij Juluki village triggered the relentless state repression that eventually led me to walk the path I was compelled to. Not many people know how I was hounded and became a “criminal” who would be arrested on the drop of a hat on the flimsiest of grounds repeatedly to damage any shred of credibility I may have left.
So, I would be very careful about jumping to conclusions about who carried out the Pehelgam massacre, or the narrative being sought to be shoved down our throats by a mainstream media which is hardly objective and factual.
What it clearly establishes, however, is that if indeed it was a massacre of Hindu tourists by foreign Pakistan backed terrorists, Modi-Shah-Doval are incompetent in their task of “protecting” India and Indians. The alternative explanations are, of course, way more sinister.
We have failed Palestine
The failure of a world that left a people’s occupied for generations, failed to recognise the state of Palestine and condemned them to constant cycles of violence.
Horrific news emerging of Israel killing over100 children in its latest attack on Gaza 💔
Form 47 government being exposed at The Oxford Union by Asad Iqbal
#خان_قوم_کی_خاطر_قید
Democracy thrives on respecting the people’s mandate and the rule of law. In February 2024, Pakistan’s military establishment targeted Imran Khan’s party through legal manipulation, stripping its election symbol to disadvantage voters. Despite exit polls predicting a two-thirds majority, blatant rigging turned the incumbent’s 17 seats into 75, fueling political instability and undermining legitimacy.
Since his ouster, Imran Khan has faced over 200 baseless cases. The UN and Amnesty International have condemned the sham charges, lack of due process, and inhumane prison conditions, calling for his release.
🚨🚨🚨🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🤝🤝🔥🔥🔥ماشاءاللہ احمد حسن نے ہندو مشرکوں کی تسلی سے دھلائی کی۔۔۔
الحمدللہ احمد حسن نے ہندوؤں کی بینڈ بجا دی یہاں الحمدللہ۔
ماشاءاللہ یہ بچہ ایک اچھا محب وطن اثاثہ ہے ہمارا۔ اللہ اس کی حفاظت فرمائے۔
By starting a smear campaign against you, only because you raised your voice for Imran Khan's release.
Now you probably have even better understanding of the grim human rights situation in Pakistan.
Thank you @RichardGrenell, and there are also those people spreading fake news about Mr President @realDonaldTrump. This lady from @pmln_org is the Chief Minister of the Punjab province with a fake mandate as a result of regime change in Pakistan.
#thankyou_Richard