🔥 US Apache Helicopter downed by Iranian Shahed drone near Strait of Hormuz!
Retired Squadron Leader Ali Hamza joins The AliTM Podcast to break down the incident, Apache history, helicopter dynamics, and why even advanced gunships are vulnerable to cheap loitering munitions.
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🇮🇱🇮🇷 New footage circulating today reportedly captures the Israeli strikes on Iran's Mobin Energy plant in Asaluyeh from April 6th.
The attack hit the utility providers feeding the petrochemical zone, forcing shutdowns.
🇵🇰🇪🇺 Everyone used to point at Pakistan as the problem. Now they're flying there to ask for help.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas landed in Islamabad and credited Pakistan with stopping a full-blown war on multiple occasions.
She's pushing for a concrete EU role in whatever comes next, with a 10-year diplomatic window on the table to lock in the ceasefire.
Pakistan spent years being written off as a regional destabiliser. Kallas just called it a peacemaker.
Source: European External Action Service (EEAS)
120 million dollars.
A Turkish architect.
A Saudi king who never lived to see it.
Pakistan's most iconic building.
Faisal Mosque. Islamabad. The story behind it is as extraordinary as the building itself.
In 1966 King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz visited Pakistan and personally offered to fund a national mosque for Islamabad.
Pakistan held an international competition in 1969. Architects from 17 countries submitted 43 designs.
The winner was Vedat Dalokay. Former Mayor of Ankara and A Turkish architect.
His design broke the most fundamental rule of mosque architecture.
No dome.
An eight-sided structure shaped like a Bedouin desert tent. Four 262-foot minarets. White Thassos marble. Blue calligraphic tiles designed by Turkish artist Mengu Ertel. The interior mixing Ottoman and Pakistani artistic traditions.
Pakistan chose it. Over every traditional design submitted.
Construction began in 1976. King Faisal was assassinated in 1975. He never saw the first stone laid.
The mosque was named after him. The road leading to it was named after him.
120 million dollars. 10 years of construction. Pakistani engineers and workers building every inch.
When it opened in 1986 it was the largest mosque in the world.
Sets against the Margalla Hills. Visible from every corner of Islamabad. One of the most photographed buildings in the Islamic world.
A Saudi dream. A Turkish design. Pakistani hands.
All of it standing at the foot of Pakistan's mountains.🇵🇰
BREAKING: Turkish FM says Israel could join a regional mechanism 'if it recognises a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders'
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When people talk about the ties between China and Pakistan, they often describe it as "higher than the mountains and deeper than the seas", call it an evergreen friendship, and refer to the two countries as "ironclad brothers". How would @itsalitm characterize this relations?
Welcome home!The #Shenzhou21 crew has returned to earth after 210 days in orbit.
The return capsule of the Shenzhou-22 manned spacecraft successfully landed at the Dongfeng landing site at 8:11 PM Beijing time on May 29.
🇸🇦 Check out this stunning time-lapse of the Hajj crowds at Mecca. The speed and efficiency with which they move hundreds of thousands of people is unmatched anywhere else in the world.
🇵🇰🇧🇩 Salute to Pakistan & Bangladesh
Pakistan and Bangladesh are among the countries whose passports state,
This passport is valid for all countries of the world except Israel.
A stance reflected on both nations’ passports. 🇵🇰🤝🇧🇩