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🇵🇰 always 1st, defender of the defenders,
haqeeqi azaadi
Çin’de bir maraton koşusunda çizgiye 1. olarak gelen sporcu daha bitiş çizgisini geçeneden Çin Milli Marşı çalmaya başladı.
Durumu fırsat olarak gören 2. sıradaki sporcu bitiş çizgisinin olduğu bölüme geldi ancak o da Çin Milli Marşını duyunca saygı duruşunda durup marşa eşlik etti.
Koşucuların bitiş çizgisini geçmeden yaşadıkları ilginç anlar, Maraton tarihinde bir ilki yaşattı.
Indians and Pakistanis are essentially the same people, divided by borders and kept divided by politicians on both sides who benefit politically—and perhaps financially—from hostility.
Imagine if India and Pakistan signed a real peace treaty. Trade, tourism, investment, culture and human connections could explode.
The economic upside could be enormous.
So I keep wondering: who benefits from keeping us enemies?
@s_m_marandi One sitting with your opponent doesn't make him trump ally, your neighbors fighting to protect you are not your enemy as acknowledged by your president. So you made an emotional tweet rather than journalistic analysis.
Please try to absorb the regional defence pact
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza City held a mass funeral today for the recovered remains of 112 members of the extended Al-Hassayna and Abu Sharia families, buried together after nearly three years under rubble.
The deaths trace to Israeli airstrikes in November 2023 on residential buildings in Gaza City's Sabra neighbourhood, where the Bedouin clan had sheltered early in the war.
Palestinian authorities say around 308 clan members were killed.
Roughly 157 still missing at the site.
بلوچستان میں راستہ بھولنے کی پاداش میں دہشت گردوں کا نشانہ بننے والی اس فیملی کی خاتون کی جرات کو سلام۔۔۔۔۔پانچ گولیاں میاں کو لگیں۔۔۔خود کو چار۔۔۔۔دو منٹ کے اندر سب کے نام بدل گیے۔۔۔۔میاں مرحوم ۔۔۔خود بیوہ ۔۔۔بچیاں یتیم ۔۔۔۔مگر آفرین ہے اس کی ہمت پر۔۔۔۔رات ایک بجے سے صبح سات تک۔۔۔۔خود بلیڈ کرتی رہی۔۔۔زخموں سے خون رستا رہا۔۔۔۔جاں بحق میاں کی باڈی کے ساتھ صرف بچیوں کو سنبھالتی رہی ۔۔۔۔کہ یہ بچ جائیں۔۔۔مسلسل پولیس اور فیملی کو فون۔۔۔۔مگر پولیس نے مدد نہ کی کہ شاید یہ کال ٹریپ کرنے کے لئے کی جا رہی ہے کہ پولیس والوں کو اس ویران علاقے میں بلا کر گھیر کر مارا جا سکے۔۔۔۔
گھر والے جگہ کو locate نہ کر سکے۔۔۔۔چھ گھنٹے بعد مسلسل بلیڈنگ سے غنودگی ہونے لگی۔۔۔تو چھوٹی بچی کو بس یہی کہہ سکی۔۔۔بیٹا اگر میں سو جاؤں تو فون کو پاور بینک سے چارج رکھنا اور پھپھو کو فون کرتی رہنا۔۔۔
اللہ اکبر۔۔۔۔ماں تیری عظمت کو سلام۔۔۔۔۔
خدا غارت کرے ان ظالموں کو جنہوں نے ہنستے بستے گھر کو اجاڑا ۔۔ اور اللہ اس آئرن لیڈی کو اس غم کا مقابلہ کرنے کی ہمت اور جرات عطا فرمائے ۔۔۔امین
Don’t let your strategic predicament cloud your vision. Riyadh is acting from a position of strength and national interest, while you are still trying to convince the world that an alliance with “Netanyahu” is your lifeline. The truth is that you are in an existential predicament with no way out, whereas Riyadh is simply... watching from above 🦅
🇮🇷🇺🇸 This is a genuinely wild story coming out of Iran right now
Iranian MP Nabavian went on live state TV and trashed the upcoming deal with the U.S.
He said that Khamenei gave clear orders to the negotiators, Qalibaf and Araqchi, and they basically ignored him and proceeded with the deal anyway.
State broadcaster IRIB is now reportedly suing him for revealing classified documents and correspondence on air. The director of IRIB resigned and apologized for letting him on in the first place.
The idea that Iran is a unified actor with a coherent negotiating position just got a lot more complicated.
Source: Al Jazeera, Iran Intl, Middle East Spectator on Telegram / Writer: Oliver
Gen. Asim Munir outmanoeuvred critics at home and abroad to elevate Pakistan’s role as a diplomatic actor under the Trump administration.
From managing tensions with India to facilitating channels on Iran, Pakistan is playing a more assertive hand in regional power politics.
My piece in @ForeignPolicy:
https://t.co/DBUODqcjti
The UAE doubles down, risking the social contract
On May 3rd, Iran confirmed that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) used fighter jets to bomb Iranian territory.
This comes weeks after Iran downed at least four Chinese-made Wing Loong drones. At that time, Tehran was uncertain whether the drones belonged to the UAE or Saudi Arabia, as both operate the same model.
Today, Iran confirmed that the UAE has fully entered the war, deploying both drones and manned aircraft.
Until now, the Emirati regime had denied any offensive collaboration with the coalition. In the first week of the war, Abu Dhabi claimed it had not authorized the use of its soil or airspace for strikes against Iran. This proved to be a mere performance.
As soon as Iran began targeting HIMARS positions on UAE soil, hundreds of American soldiers sought refuge in hotels across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Ras Al Khaimah.
In recent weeks, the UAE has stopped hiding its collaboration with Israel. During the recent truce, Emirati officials attended a meeting in Israel alongside the Commander of CENTCOM. By doing so, the UAE sealed its role as Israel’s staunch ally, a stance that goes beyond military cooperation and is marked by a deep diplomatic rupture with Saudi Arabia.
The UAE now finds itself in a geopolitical sandwich: Iran to its front, Saudi Arabia at its rear, and Qatar, with whom relations were only recently restored, at its side. This posture, dictated by Abu Dhabi, is extremely dangerous on economic, military, and social levels.
The UAE was built on a Social Contract: the government provides wealth, security, and world-class services in exchange for absolute political loyalty.
This contract depends on a strong economy; as long as prosperity is guaranteed, most citizens accept foreign policy decisions, even if they disagree with them.
Currently, the greatest social risk is religious, the fear that the alliance with Israel will be perceived as a betrayal of Islam. To mitigate this, Abu Dhabi invests heavily in the narrative of Moderate Islam and coexistence (exemplified by the Abrahamic Family House), attempting to reframe the alliance as a tool for peace rather than war.
All this occurs while the UAE maintains one of the world’s most sophisticated internal surveillance systems, ensuring any organized dissent is neutralized before it gains momentum.
The UAE has decided to bet everything against Iran, but why is this a high-stakes gamble? Because no one expects regime change in Iran anymore. On the contrary, the Iranian government appears solid. This is where Abu Dhabi’s strategy begins to threaten its own survival.
The UAE is now Iran’s primary target. In a possible second phase of the war, the scale of the Iranian retaliatory strike will be devastating now that they have confirmed Emirati jets are bombing Iranian facilities. Even looking toward the future, this move may be the final nail in the coffin for everything the UAE has built.
Full article:
https://t.co/TgBpFZG6sn
@CynthiaDRitchie Cynthia this isn't pakistan, Pakistan is very beautiful and rich jb terms love care n affection this is just a wolf in sheep's clothing. So better to ignore this idiot and keep on with your positivity please. Stay blessed
State Bank of Pakistan repaid deposit of US$ 1 billion to Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) UAE on 23April2026. Deposits of $2.45 billion were repaid last week. This completes the repayment of total deposits of $3.45 billion to UAE.
It appears that the zero enrichment poison pill killed the Islamabad negotiations yesterday. We have 9 more days in this cease fire to fix this, but we must pursue our goals not Israel's.
Trump's redline has always been no nuclear weapons for Iran, not zero enrichment. Iran agrees with this and has not sought to develop or obtain a nuke since 2003 but needs to retain the ability to enrich for their "not Saddam but not Qaddafi" policy to work.
This makes negotiations between the U.S. & Iran workable as the dispute is on levels of enrichment and monitoring.
This is a threat to Israel getting us to do the heavy lifting in the regime change/decapitation war they want.
Israel needs us chasing every trace of uranium in Iran because that ensures we stay engaged militarily in Iran, because how do we ever fully make sure Iran can't enrich without taking out the regime?
This is the recipe for an endless bloody war or supporting/turning a blind eye to Israel using a WMD on Iran.
Restrain Israel, get a deal, open the SOH, focus on saving our Republic, not playing empire.
Images from a plane carrying Iran’s delegation to US-Iran talks in Islamabad show seats filled with photos and belongings of victims of the Minab school strike.
The aircraft, “Minab 168,” honours the 168 killed, mostly children.