Mashood Paracha

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

there are stories like for them it's a piece of cake, we ate your 6 jets, we can digest 100 more. Now the ball's in your court.

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

That's what we needed and the need of time, govt2govt, people2people to a greater extent.

[Michael Kugelman @MichaelKugelman]

Much is unclear about Gen. Munir’s reported upcoming trip to the US. But if he comes, a CENTCOM visit is a possibility. He and Gen. Kurilla have met 3 times in less than 2 years. Kurilla praised him yesterday in Hill testimony. US-Pak officer-to-officer ties are generally strong.

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

@PASHAORG I have a lot of questions about this budget, the benefits to the industry especially freelancers are tap to zero.

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

When you get praised by your enemies. Thank you Field Marshal Awesome Munir and PM @CMShehbaz

[Pravin Sawhney @PravinSawhney]

Like what I said, Pakistan is supported by all three Great Powers (China, US, Russia).
My opinion: If Pakistan gets its governance right, nothing will stop its rise trajectory since it has military power, good geography & an unmatched soft power of great hospitality!

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

the only way is referendum, free and independent Kashmir.

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

Thanks to @BBhuttoZardari, Modi chai wala chapri has isolated Ashoks on most of the international fronts. You need to be more digitally grown up Ashok.

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

The chai wala has no etiquette of being HE. The butcher of Gujrat still acts like a chapri.

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

Saudi services at their best!

[Saudi On Demand @SaudiTVEN]

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[Mufti Menk @muftimenk]

Don't miss out on the most blessed day of Hajj, Arafah. Fast to expiate sins of the past year and the year to come. Supplicate sincerely. Do everything for the sake of the Almighty. He has promised great rewards.

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

Bilawal's piercing perspicacity, a truly uncommon trait in today's political landscape, allows him to cut through complexity with remarkable ease.

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

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[Thomas Keith @iwasnevrhere_]

Reading this article was like watching a mask slip in real time.

What began as a report on a downed fighter turned into a window, no, a spotlight, on the hollow core of India’s military-industrial delusion. Every paragraph exposed another fracture: a billion-dollar procurement scam dressed as strategy, a prestige airframe flown by a short-staffed force, and a foreign vendor locking the door on India’s own cockpit. What struck me most wasn’t just the Rafale’s failure, but the systemic absurdity, a nuclear state barred from accessing its own jets while begging for diagnostics from the same vendor now blaming its pilots. The whole piece reads like a forensic report on the death of a myth: that India can buy its way into great powerhood without ever building, training, or securing control where it counts, at the firmware layer. What follows is not a thread. It’s an autopsy:

$288 Million for a Trophy That Bleeds:
The first Rafale that corkscrewed into Pakistani airspace didn’t just explode, it detonated India’s prestige economy. New Delhi’s crown‑priced French import, marketed as a silver bullet against an “inferior” PAF, folded under a Chinese PL‑15 seeker and left a smoking hole in Delhi’s mythology of parity. The fallout is pure theatre: Paris blames “pilot error,” Delhi slams the hangar doors on Dassault’s auditors, and Jakarta, having watched the wreck, quietly audits its own Rafale order before the ink dries. Each headline isn’t just a story; it’s an autopsy note on a $10‑billion vanity purchase that never included sovereignty in the box.

Behind the blame‑spiral squats a decade of self‑inflicted decay. The Comptroller & Auditor General rang the klaxon in 2024: 596 missing fighter pilots, 1.25:1 seat ratios, grounded Pilatus trainers cannibalized for spares, and a fleet of just 31 squadrons against a doctrinal demand for 42. Delhi ignored the numbers, slapped tiger decals on French jets, and prayed the optics would fly. They didn’t. Personnel starvation met maintenance starvation, and the Rafale, an aircraft that requires obsessive care and software autonomy, was treated like showroom décor on a parade fly‑past schedule. When real war arrived, the hangars echoed.

Dassault’s refusal to hand over source code finishes the humiliation. India doesn’t own the avionics it paid $288 million apiece for; it rents them on colonial terms. Every weapons‑integration tweak requires a French permission slip, every diagnostic a Parisian handshake. Meanwhile an intact PL‑15 lies on an IAF bench offering firmware secrets India will never glimpse in its own jets. Chinese diplomats rub salt: “You can’t access Rafale core functions, but you’ll reverse‑engineer our missile?” The burn lands because it’s true. Delhi’s imported glamour turns out to be a glass cockpit with a locked door and a landlord demanding rent.

So France and India point fingers, but both know the verdict: over‑priced Western hardware plus under��resourced Indian readiness equals scrap metal on Day One. The Rafale kill isn’t a footnote; it’s a cipher that rewrites regional tiering. It proves power is compiled, not purchased, that air superiority now belongs to the side that can alter firmware at sunrise, not the side parading foreign decals at sunset. Pakistan learned, iterated, and fired; India financed, outsourced, and fell. The lesson is carved in molten titanium: a state that buys prestige instead of sovereignty will always end up litigating failure in the press while its enemies tweet the kill‑cam.

[Shehbaz Sharif @CMShehbaz]

Had a most warm and cordial meeting with my brother H.E Emomali Rahmon, President of the Republic of Tajikistan.

Our discussions reaffirmed the depth of 🇵🇰-🇹🇯 brotherhood and our resolve to expand strategic cooperation across trade, energy, defence & beyond.

I also briefed him regarding the recent Indian aggression against Pakistan. We agreed on the importance of regional peace and stability which are vital to the progress and prosperity of our peoples.

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

There is so much left in this world to talk about better than this convict.

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, should be free.

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

The world needs to know about this evil nexus. Thank you gentlemen.

[Mushahid Hussain Sayed @Mushahid]

From Russia, with Love! Wonderful meeting @jacksonhinkle in Moscow, Gutsy Guy who speaks Truth to Power & is Voice of Oppressed, with amazing Strategic Clarity on Nexus between the Twin Evils: Zionism & Hindutva! More such bold & brilliant Voices are needed!

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

ain't the Indian govt using the Taliban to kill kashmiri freedom fighters? I think you need to research on this matter.

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

@sufisal what cheap shit you are you smoking these days?

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

Reminds me of AVM Aurangzeb, PAF vs IAF, 6-Nil. marvelous!

[Bloomberg @business]

India’s military confirmed for the first time that it lost an unspecified number of fighter jets in clashes with Pakistan in May, while saying the four-day conflict never came close to the point of nuclear war. https://t.co/LFu0Um9sFn

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

Fateh 1 & 2 in the one go. Thank you Arshad.

[Arshad Nadeem @ArshadOlympian1]

🥇🇵🇰 Another GOLD for Pakistan! Alhamdulillah!
This victory belongs to the Almighty first—His blessings, His will. Without His grace, none of this would be possible.
To my coaches, my team, my family, and every Pakistani who prayed for me—this medal is yours. Your support fuels my journey.
Let’s keep rising for our beloved nation! Insha’Allah, more to come. ❤️💚 #ArshadNadeem #PakistanZindabad #Alhamdulillah

[Mashood Paracha @mashood]

@UmarCheema1 Major Sami got the ISI chipped In ear monitor. We should thanks for his services.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

We firmly oppose the expansion of Israeli military operations in Gaza. The level of human suffering is intolerable.

In the lead-up to the June 18 conference in New York, we must all work toward implementing the two-state solution.

Our joint statement — France, the United Kingdom, and Canada — on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank: https://t.co/yxWkKOAsnt